"Fat" 7 Year Old

just read the title of this article, "A Mom's Reactions to Vogue's Story about a "Fat" 7 Year Old Girl"

and you'll be intrigued to read the rest. It's a pretty short read and totally worth your time! if you were not inspired to teach about diets and anorexia/bulimia, this will give you a new push at exactly how important it is to talk about in your classrooms!

Lesson Planning

so i got REALLY sick last week (3 days of subs!) and i had to quickly come up with lesson plans that subs could follow. along with that and a training meeting, i have found a few websites that have really good ideas for lesson plans. click if you dare...

i LOVE http://www.uen.org/k12student/. and here's the link directly for the health curriculum http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=7 .

i also really like http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/ and here's a really cool lesson for the nutrition unit http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/grocery-store-scavenger-hunt-1140.html .

i haven't explored this one too much, but i bet there are some goodies http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/health/healthlp.asp .

i haven't explored this one too much either, but i looks like it may be good http://www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/healthpe/Information-and-Resources/Electronic-Toolbox-for-Internet.aspx .

also, i thought this was a cute idea http://www.wordle.net/ ! not quite sure how to use it, but i liked it.

happy lesson planning!

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ha ha ha...

everyone has heard of this sexuality bill??? yeah??? http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/53675267-82/sex-utah-homosexuality-information.html.csp

i felt so dumb because i hadn't been following, but there is a bill that is on Gov. Herbert's desk to take ALL sexuality education out of the schools!!! ai ya, ai ya.

just wanted to make sure everyone was aware!! scary stuff.

Do you mean what you say??

i had an activity go over REALLY well this week and i'll do my best to explain what i did...

it started off with this video/commercial about the word "gay"

the idea that i proposed to my students was, "if we could ban a word/phrase around our school and get the message to other students to 'knock it off!' what word/phrase would it be?"

so i had to clarify, although it would be great to ban swear words, with the campaign we would be working on, we could not make videos or posters with swear words...so here are some of the words that my students came up with

gay

freak

retard

slut

homo

lesbo

"fag"got

tramp

perverted terms

racist terms

and some other words...

then i had each class vote on two terms that they would ban if they could. kind of surprising to me, ALL my health classes chose as one of the terms, "racists terms". so that was the winner.

the following day, i told them i was turning the project over to their class and asked them to brainstorm about how we should go about this as health classes. they came up with GREAT ideas!!! videos, announcements over the intercom, flyers, brochures, going to classes and writing a message on EVERY whiteboard in the school one morning, raps, and possibly a flash mob. we have not decided what projects we will complete, so i'll keep you updated how it goes!

if you would like more details, leave a comment because that was the activity in a nutshell.

p.s. becca, i also used your "so what" idea and when we decided on the racist terms, i had them throw around a tennis ball with "so what" written on it and had my students tell me why they chose racist terms. great idea!!