( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Mar 4 2009
This is a great health book for the general education teacher for an overview of pretty much any and every topic in health that might be encountered through all grades!
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 24 2003
This book is certainly thick with as many pages it has. I really enjoyed the book. I did not know as much about health until I read this book. This book provides sample lesson plans, goals, explanations of certain diseases,and an interesting behavior contract. This contract allows the student to create a contract to improve his/her health usually in a month's time frame.Also, this book provides national standards with national contact phone numbers and addresses. This is great because since education now is really standards based, a teacher can reference this book for standars in creating health-centered or health-enriched lesson plans across the curriculum.I would have liked to see it a litlle more user-friendly as far as navigating it. Also, would consider as a refernce book for educators and not a book for mild reading.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 22 2001
This textbook is my textbook for a course I am taking in college. I am in school to be a health teacher, and gym teacher. The book is layed out nicely for an elementary school teacher where you only teach 1, maybe 2 grades. In the back of the book, there are teaching stragies that help teach the content chapters. My problem with that is the layout. Instead of listing the content chapter for example..."Nutrition" then listing lessons for grades 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.... they chose to list Grade 1--Nutrition, Personal Health, Growth and Development, Consumer Health, etc. Grade 2--Nutrition, Personal Health, Growth and Development, Consumer Health...etc
