Health Information in a Changing World
Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Health Information in a Changing World
Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians
About this book
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. 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Guide
- 1. Schools, Libraries, and Health Education
- 2. Health Curriculum and Instruction
- 3. Teaching and Holistic Health Information Literacy
- 4. Searching for Health Information and Developing Library Use Skills
- 5. Materials for Health Instruction and Information
- 6. Literature, the Arts, Performance Activities, and Languages
- 7. Connections to Good Health: Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Languages
- 8. Connections: Health, Physical Education, Science, and Mathematics
- 9. Globalization, Instruction, and Youth Health
- 10. Outreach, Health, and the School Community
- 11. Into the Future: Health, Curriculum, and Librarians
- Appendix A: Resources
- Appendix B: A Selected List of Health and Physical Education Textbooks Used in North American Schools
- Index
- About the Authors