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Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications

ISBN10: 1266677755 | ISBN13: 9781266677755

Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications
ISBN10: 1266677755
ISBN13: 9781266677755
By Denise Seabert

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Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications provides pre-service elementary and middle school teachers, school nurses, and health education specialists with the information, skills, and support they need to provide quality health instruction to students. The practical approach offers specific strategies for teaching health while providing background information on key health topics. Each chapter offers valuable activities and techniques related to assessment, curriculum development, lesson and unit planning, instruction, and more. This release has been updated to include the latest national recommendations, statistics, and standards related to health education and programming.

SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH EDUCATION

1: Whole school, whole community, whole child: A collaborative approach to learning and health

2: Comprehensive school health education: Applying the science of education to improving health instruction

3: Standards-based planning, teaching, and assessment in health education

4: Building and managing the safe and positive learning environment

SECTION II: HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP SKILLS FOR POSITIVE HEALTH HABITS

5: Promoting mental and emotional health

6: Promoting healthy eating

7: Promoting physical activity

8: Promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury

9: Promoting personal health and wellness

SECTION III: HELPING STUDENTS TRANSLATE THEIR SKILLS TO MANAGE HEALTH RISKS

10: Preventing intentional injuries and violence

11: Tobacco use and electronic nicotine delivery systems prevention

12: Alcohol and other drug use prevention

13: Promoting sexual health

14: Managing loss, death, and grief

Appendix: Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education Rubrics for the National Health Education Standards

About the Author

Denise Seabert

Denise Seabert, PhD, has been preparing health teachers and providing in-service trainings for teachers and other school personnel for more than 20 years. Her career has been dedicated to professional preparation of health educators through service to state and national organizations and initiatives as well as textbook authorship. Denise provided leadership in Indiana’s obesity prevention efforts, HIV education for teachers, and academic standards for health and wellness. Currently she serves on the Eta Sigma Gamma National Health Education Honorary Executive Board and National Committee on the Future of School Health. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American School Health Association, NCHEC’s Division Board for Certified Health Education Specialists, and was a member of the CDC’s Training Tools for Healthy Schools national training cadre. Denise is professor emeritus at Ball State University.  She joined the University of West Florida as Dean, Usha Kundu, MD College of Health in July 2018. Dr. Seabert received her BAEd in School Health Education from Western Washington University, MS in School and College Health from Indiana University, and PhD in Health Behavior with a minor in Curriculum from the University of Florida.

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