Focus Home Group Leader: Theresa Meyers
Secretary: Wendy Arocta
WASC Home Group -Health

Three health education content areas recommended for program improvement:

1.Emphasize discussion and instruction of listed curriculum topics
(Personal Health, Injury Prevention and Safety , Communicable and Chronic Diseases)
2. List Resources
3. Provide Opportunities for schoolwide health education emphasis

Three Subject Areas to be Emphasized:
1. Personal Health
examples: development of effective communication skills, development of healthy friendships and peer relationships, identification and and expression of feelings, understanding and accepting growth and development of body, participation in health screening evaluation of vision, speech and hearing

2. Injury Prevention and Safety
examples: "Stranger Danger" awareness, identify dangers in use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, label and medication safety tips, emergency response

3. Communicable and Chronic Diseases
examples: germ transfer, healthy food preparation practices, disease prevention

Curriculum Suggestions and Methods of Delivery:
Books, CDs, videos, games, teaching kits and materials, first aid classes for kids (i.e., training in CPR, Heimlich maneuver, etc.) schoolwide health screening evaluations, Safety Fair (bike safety, fire hazards & prevention, finger printing, etc.) with presentations by sheriff, police and fire personnel.

Curriculum:
Berenstein Bear series (read-aloud books on feelings)
germ transfer (glitter lesson demonstrating germ transfer)
A+ Report Card
Anatomy Apron- $24.95 (grades K-3)
Some Body Game- $24.95 (Grade 1 and up)
Health and Wellness A-Z Learning Series-workbook (Grades 4-6)
365 Activities for Fitness, Food and Fun for the Whole Family- $14.95
Rainbow Resource-Bob Jones Health Series
character education texts through Weiser
Middle School Advantage-CD series
Steck-Vaughn health workbook (K-8)
book series by author Louis Bates Ames-"Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender"-"Your Ten to Fourteen year Old" (approximately $10-$13, available through Borders)

High School:
Lifetime Health (A-G)
Steck-Vaughn
North Dakota (text and workbook)
AGS
Pathways (involves projects)
Holt & Reinhart- Lifetime Health
Glencoe
Amsco

How Could We Accomplish This Task?
1.ESes need a list of health resources compiled by the Curriculum Specialist. The curriculum items need one-sentence descriptions, approximate price, catalog number and need to be updated annually.

2.ESes compile lists of health resources at group meetings.

3.If lists cannot be compiled by Curriculum Specialist, ESes can compile list of resources per grade level-one subject at every monthly meeting.


Who Should Accomplish This Task?
Curriculum Specialist and ESes

Time line Needed to Accomplish This Task? Somtime during school year 2005, possible when this ESLR is discussed during meeting, but completed by 2006 school year.