Full Description
The second edition of Planet Healthfor Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an innovative approach to teaching health education. You can use this proven, evidence-based curriculum to teach students about nutrition and physical activity while helping them build skills and competencies in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education. The curriculum is designed for use by teachers in core academic areas as well as in physical education and health. This new edition includes revised nutrition and physical activity information, ensuring that you're equipped with the most up-to-date science. The book also includes an all-new CD-ROM with plenty of reproducible worksheets, parent information and newsletters, school health resources, and other teacher resource materials. Like the popular first edition, Planet Health provides-35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits that promote healthy nutrition and activity; -materials and instructions to implement Power Down, a two-week campaign to reduce television and other media viewing time, which you can launch in the classroom or school-wide; and -FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels. In addition, the book includes access to a Web site, which features a teacher training PowerPoint presentation, a Planet Heath FAQ, and more. Planet Health, Second Edition, encourages students to think holistically about how health behaviors are interrelated, and it offers a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. With this approach, you can build on your students' knowledge and experiences to create an active, inquiry-based, student-centered learning environment-one in which students learn best as they construct meaning for themselves. Developed by educators and scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health, Planet Health, Second Edition, is aligned with the Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks (learning standards) for health, language arts, math, science and technology, and history and social science, and it meets the standards in many other states. Every Planet Health lesson incorporates a range of language arts learning standards and engages students through discussion ideas for small or large groups in which they cooperatively learn and solve health-related issues. Active discussions are used to encourage higher-level thinking and cognition, and peer-group work fosters social development. This new edition of Planet Health is the perfect antidote to kids' inactivity, poor food choices, and high levels of screen-viewing time. Acquiring good habits regarding nutrition and physical activity in adolescence often carries over into adulthood. Help your students develop good habits now with Planet Health, Second Edition, and they'll have a better chance of growing into healthy adults.
Contents
A Letter to TeachersHow to Use the CD-ROMAcknowledgmentsSection 1. Implementing Planet Health in Your SchoolAbout the CurriculumCurriculum ComponentsGetting StartedMiddle School PlannerSection 2. Classroom LessonsComponents of the Classroom CurriculumResourcesLesson DesignEducational ApproachIncorporating Planet Health Into Your CurriculumMaking Every Lesson a Literacy-Rich ExperiencePart I. Introductory Classes for StudentsLesson 1 Do You Make Space for Fitness and Nutrition?Lesson 2 Power Down: Charting Screen Time Part II. Language ArtsLesson 3 Food PowerLesson 4 Carbohydrate: Energy Food Lesson 5 The Language of Food Lesson 6 Keep It LocalLesson 7 Write a Fable: Important Messages About Activity Lesson 8 Go for the Goal Lesson 9 Lifetime Physical Activities: Research One, Describe One, Try One! Lesson 10 Choosing Healthy Foods Part III. MathLesson 11 Problem Solving: Making Healthy ChoicesLesson 12 Figuring Out Fat Lesson 13 Looking for Patterns: What's for Lunch? Lesson 14 Apples, Oranges, and Zucchini: An Algebra Party Lesson 15 Plotting Coordinate Graphs: What Does Your Day Look Like? Lesson 16 Survey the Class Lesson 17 Circle Graphs: Where Did the Day Go? Lesson 18 Energy Equations Part IV. ScienceLesson 19 Passing the SugarLesson 20 Mighty Minerals: Calcium and Iron Lesson 21 Fat Functions Lesson 22 Smart Snacks Lesson 23 The Plants We Eat Lesson 24 Foods for Energy Lesson 25 Muscle Mysteries Lesson 26 The Human Heart Lesson 27 How Far Can You Jump? Part V. Social StudiesLesson 28 Food Through the Ages Lesson 29 Democracy and Diet Lesson 30 Global Foods Lesson 31 Around the World With Five a Day Lesson 32 Map Maker Lesson 33 Free to Be Fit Lesson 34 Impact of Technology Lesson 35 Food Rituals and Society Section 3. Physical Education MicrounitsTeacher Introduction to the Microunits Student Introduction to the Microunits Part VI. Introducing Exercise and FitnessPE Microunit 1 Thinking About Activity, Exercise, and Fitness PE Microunit 2 Warm Up Before You Exercise PE Microunit 3 Cool Down After You Exercise Part VII. FitCheckTeacher's Guide to FitCheck Introduction to FitCheck FitCheck Worksheets PE Microunit 4 Charting Your FitScore, Fit Score, and SitScore PE Microunit 5 What Could You Do Instead of Watching TV? PE Microunit 6 Making Time to Stay Fit PE Microunit 7 Setting Goals for Personal Fitness Part VIII. Getting StartedPE Microunit 8 Let's Get Started on Being Fit PE Microunit 9 More About the Three Areas of Physical Fitness PE Microunit 10 Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type PE Microunit 11 Choose Activities You Think Are Fun PE Microunit 12 How Often Should I Exercise? Part IX. Improving FitnessPE Microunit 13 Improving Cardiorespiratory Endurance PE Microunit 14 Improving Muscular Strength PE Microunit 15 Improving Flexibility Part X. Measuring FitnessPE Microunit 16 Improving Your Overall Physical Fitness Levels PE Microunit 17 Knowing Your Resting Heart Rate PE Microunit 18 Exercise Makes Your Heart Beat Faster Part XI. Be Active Now! PE Microunit 19 Be Active Now for a Healthy Heart Later PE 20 Microunit Be Active Now for Healthy Bones Later PE 21 Microunit Be Active Now to Stay in Shape Part XII. Get Ready to ExercisePE Microunit 22 Energy for Exercise PE Microunit 23 Weather and Exercise PE Microunit 24 Getting Enough to Drink PE Microunit 25 Food and Supplement Myths Part XIII. Fitness Is Fun! PE Microunit 26 Dance for Fitness PE Microunit 27 Calisthenics PE Microunit 28 Running, Jogging, and Fitness Walking PE Microunit 29 Swimming PE Microunit 30 CyclingPE Microunit 31 YogaAppendix A Nutrition Resources Appendix B Physical Activity Resources Appendix C Television Viewing and Other Screen Time Resources Appendix D Social Studies Resources Appendix E Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks About the Authors
