Alcohol and Advertisements

good resource!!

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/alcohol/interpreting_messages.cfm

Body Systems Lesson Ideas

My husband and I just went to the BODIES Exhibit here in New York and had such a fun time learning more about the human body "up close and personal". I was browsing through the exhibit's website and came upon a series of  teacher's guides for the exhibit, specific to different age groups (grades 6-8, grades 9-12, etc). It has some great lesson plans about the body systems that can be done without going to the exhibit. My students loved learning about the background scientific information about the health issues we discussed this semester and I think some of these would be fun in the classroom.

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/newyork/component/content/article/39.html

Bullying and Suicide

One of my students actually found these clips for me. I LOVED them!!

Jonah: He made this video before starting the 8th grade because he was upset and worried about being bullied. He talks about suicide and his option to be strong and ends his video with "I have a million reasons to be here." I took this statement and made it my main idea for my two days on suicide. I showed the beginning of the clip until he says that he is starting the 8th grade, then I fast forwarded it to 3:17 and watched it to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg

This 2nd video I showed on the bullying day. This video is a response to Jonah's video and is about stopping bullying. I showed the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yjLXARdWw

Alcohol Laws for Kids

Here's the best pdf i found about the laws for underage drinking. both for dui's and for possession.

http://publicsafety.utah.gov/highwaysafety/documents/Under21alcoholoffensesummary2011.pdf

it's important for students to know the consequences!

Spider Webs on Drugs (ATOD)

SO interesting...

look at this...

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Caffeine

http://eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2011/09/weave-been-living-in-flames-weave-been.html

Video for Reproduction Unit

ok, don't be freaked out by the title! it's a rap...and it's awesome...

here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IlJFvxad1_A#!

probably more for a high school class, but it's GOOD!

here's some good video resources on drugs. i don't know about you but my kids LOVE videos. even if they are only 3o seconds!

specifically on meth:

http://www.methproject.org/ads/tv/

on marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, lsd and heroin:

http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs-on-the-brain

stories from real people (kinda long videos but REALLY good!):

http://www.drugfreeworld.org/real-life-stories/final-word.html

p.s. SO curious as to where everyone is teaching???!!! let me know if you need help preparing materials!

xo

GREAT RESOURCES...

middle school:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/6-8/health-fitness/resources/

high school:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/9-12/health-fitness/resources/

you have to navigate a bit, but within minutes i was finding awesome material.

also, this website is GREAT for fitness...but it also has general health stuff on it:

http://pecentral.com/

xo internet. xo

ha ha. yeah, kids are great! i hope everyone is surviving! i've wanted to post so many times and then find myself ITCHING for more time! but, it's time. here are some websites that i L O V E. they have saved me so many times with lesson planning.

http://kidshealth.org/classroom/

that one has lesson plans on it!!! woot woot.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/

that one you can copy and paste info straight from the source! it was made for teens. awesome, awesome.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/myplate/index.aspx

that one is a personalized nutrition plan. and it's FREE!! if you did that plus this one...

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-fitness-calorie-counter

it would be a great day in the computer lab. i don't know about you, but i love the computer lab.

also, for any of you sick of the kids making posters, have you heard of http://edu.glogster.com/? it's an on-line poster website. and it's specifically for educators. it's great! would be SUPER fun to do a positivity lesson and have the kids make positivity posters. also, if you have makes with camera's at your school, the students LOVE using the cameras. have them take pictures and put them on the posters! but, you'll have to teach them how to do it first. not everyone is as computer savy as we all now are. thank you ip&t.

here's a fun idea for optimism...do you think you could do this another way in your classroom???

and another...you'd have to cut it off before he starts talking about God, but it's great!

also, want a good video about the media??

hope something helped ya! xo

Okay so this website is awesome: http://www.myfoodapedia.gov.
You could do a great activity with this.

I've created a worksheet students would fill out for an individual meal.

Nutrition Unit Ideas

We'll be starting our nutrition unit in a few weeks (woo-hoo!) and I'd love to hear your ideas on your intro to nutrition, tracking your diet ideas, and how you addressed portion size vs serving size.

TWS

Hey all!

Hope everything is going well!

For those of you who are student teaching right now, has Cougar given out an outline on what's supposed to be in the last sections of our Teacher Work Sample? If so, could someone send me those?

Thanks!

Aubrey

just thought i would send a shout-out to Cougar and Josh and Shane...here's the link to an article written about them in the SLTRIB. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/52568403-53/sexual-music-lyrics-behavior.html.csp.

Pretty great!

miss you all...hope life is going well. xo

GOOD LUCK!!!

Good Luck to all of you starting school this semester!!! You are all going to be AMAZING!!!

Just remember to love all of your students and to be real and you will all succeed! I can't wait to hear about everyones experiences!

Kaitie