Health Information in a Changing World
Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians
Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781598843989
ISBN10: 1598843982
Book code: A2832P
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Paperback
| 244 pages
Publication Date: 06/14/2010
DESCRIPTION
In the United States, convenience food and soft drink-based diets, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and obesity have become common in youth culture. The importance of health education merits integration throughout school curricula; unfortunately, research shows that many teachers do not feel prepared to teach health issues within their subject areas. This book will encourage all librarians and teachers?no matter their specific area of instruction?to include health lessons in their teaching.
Health Information in a Changing World: Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians provides a complete action plan for librarians and teachers who want to provide better health information to students and their caregivers. It contains an extensive discussion of teaching health within curriculum areas such as literature, history and biography, art, science and mathematics, industrial technology, and agriculture. Tips on accessing and evaluating health information in print and electronic media are presented, as well as practical suggestions for effective instructional methods, including ideas on conducting demonstrations, field trips, speaker programs, and online distance education. New findings regarding teaching effectiveness assessment are also presented.
This holistic guide explains how school librarians and teachers can successfully integrate relevant health concepts and life skills throughout the curriculum for students K through 12.
Everyone's worried about healthcare issues?the spiraling costs, rampant obesity, concern about having enough qualified caregivers as today's generation ages. The good news is that librarians and teachers have an opportunity to take proactive measures and lead the charge in health management and disease prevention in America.
TITLE FEATURES
· Gathers and analyzes critical health issues affecting today's youth across all grade levels
· Documents how public health institutions and schools have played major roles in promoting health and disease prevention
· Provides an extensive list of health resources for use in all areas of the K-12 curriculum
· Presents relevant information about health from major international and national governments
· Includes instructional suggestions based on the latest standards issued by state and national associations
· 15 original line drawings illustrating health issues, plus many images drawn from major image collections such as the National Library of Medicine and the Library of Congress
· Extensive bibliographies of material that can be used to teach health issues, including selected listings of major health textbooks used in the United States and Canada
· List of helpful selection aids and sources for online health information sites