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Health Lessons For Middle School

Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

health lessons for middle school
What are some good health related lessons to teach to elementary school children?

I need to present a lesson for a class I am taking about how to teach health education in the elementary classroom. I had one to do on germs but we got in groups today and someone in my group did that. I don’t want to look like I am copying and the teacher wanted us all to do different topics. Someone already did the food pyramid and someone did sleeping habits and another was on substance abuse. I am running low on ideas of topics to teach on health. Any guidance would help me so much as I have been searching online and I getting fustrated because most health lessons are for older students in middle to high school…thanks so much!!!

Basic hygiene when going to the bathroom and touching food.
Dental hygiene.
Headlice
Hygiene when handling pet or other animals, washing hands immediately, no putting hands into mouths.
Sugary foods
The importance of fruit and veg.
Kids are never too young to learn the horrors of smoking. Put them off smoking at an early age. You shock kids with a picture of blackened lungs and they will remember it years later when someone offers them a cigarette.
good luck