The website Kids Health in the Classroom provides educators with health curriculum materials for free! Teacher's can find resources related to health that can be integrated into all subjects in the classroom. It contains a teacher guide for all grades (preschool-12), which comes with activities, experiments, discussions, and quizzes to share with students. I found this site to be really important because health is obviously one of the most important aspects of life, and in America today, health has really declined. This website can help teachers incorporate health activities in the classroom, so students can become more aware of a healthy lifestyle. Do you find this website helpful? Do you think incorporating health in the classrooms is beneficial for students? What do you think of this website? Would you use it in your classroom in the future? I definitely will find myself using this website in a few years, because I want my kids to also learn how to be healthy.
http://kidshealth.org/classroom/index.jsp?Grade=0&Section=welcome
I think this site is very helpful, especially with the budget cuts in schools. Incorporating health into the classroom will benefit students because they will learn two (or more) subjects at a time--a teacher's dream! The more that students are exposed to a concept, the better they will understand it. Health is such an important issue to our society today, with so many problems that are going on. As teachers, we need to educate our students about living healthy lifestyles so that this issue will be gone in the future. It is also important to be positive role models so our students have at least one role model. I would definitely use this as a reference in my classroom!
ReplyDeleteGreat resource. I really like this source because it applies to everything I did my research project on. It is so important to incorporate nutrition into today's schools because children are often not receiving education about nutrition at home. Teachers really need to be creative in today's schools because nutrition programs are not available for all schools. Some teachers have a hard time being creative due the pressure to meet standards, tests, etc. This site would really help teachers to be creative and integrate nutrition into other subject areas.
ReplyDeleteHey Katie,
ReplyDeleteI really think this is a great resource as well!
Health education is an area I feel that teachers tend to really lack in, and I think its due to a lackof resources. So... this is great for all of us to keep in mind!
Well, I'm going to have to follow the crowd and say that this is a great resource for future educators. I am truly surprised at the rising health risks in elementary-aged children nowadays. This site provides teachers with useful topics and activities to incorporate in the classroom for discussion or hands-on projects. Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteWell, I hope to be a health teacher some day. This website would provide current ideas to keep the class up to modern thoughts and practices. Health education is important especially with the rise of obesity.
ReplyDeleteI find this website very helpful! Because of state testing and everything it is really difficult to find ways to incorporate something that, though it is actually really important to the development of your students, doesn't really hold that much value to whoever it is that writes the tests. By giving teachers such an easy and adaptable resource, KidsHealth is giving teachers a better chance of incorporating health in their curriculum. And who knows? Maybe a health lesson will be a great jumping point for a whole 'nother "required" subject lesson!
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