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Innovative Tools for Health Education

Making Inexpensive Props, Visuals, and Manipulatives

Author: Marilyn Grechus

$17.00 USD

Book
$17.00 USD

ISBN: 9780736089852

©2010

Page Count: 72


Innovative Tools for Health Education: Making Inexpensive Props, Visuals, and Manipulatives guides you in using inexpensive or recycled materials as props for health lessons and activities. This book contains instructions on 30 projects with activity suggestions to make lessons meaningful and memorable, and it helps you

• use ordinary objects lying around the house as effective props in your class;

• bring creativity and freshness to lessons that keep your students engaged in learning; and

• guide your students through practical learning experiences that help them to understand health issues and concepts in new ways.

Audience

Resource for K-12 teachers, health teachers, elementary physical education teachers, and university health instructors.

Preface

Acknowledgments

 

Activities

1. Portable First Aid Kit

2. Stethoscope

3. Puppets

4. Beanbags

5. Health Balls

6. Stress Balls

7. Germs Under the Black Light

8. Alcohol Goggles

9. DUI Game Kit

10. Bottles With Impact

11. Breathless Cigarettes

12. Smokeless Tobacco Can

13. Homemade Phlegm

14. Tobacco Tar

15. Stinky Beanbag

16. Clogged Arteries

17. Components of Blood

18. Organ Vest

19. Model Lungs

20. MyPyramid Pocket Chart

21. Healthy Placemat

22. Simulation of Fat

23. Simulation of Sugar

24. Food Portion Kit

25. Portion Plates

26. A Pound of Fat

27. Fat Vest

28. Dice

29. Inexpensive Teaching Props

 

Appendix A: Patterns

Appendix B: Homemade Clay

About the Author

 

Marilyn Grechus, PhD, is a professor of health education at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri. She has taught health methods courses since 1992 and has presented on related topics at the state, district, and national levels. She has received two Excellence in Teaching awards, one from the University of Central Missouri and the other from the National Society of Leadership & Success. In 2003 she received the Robert M. Taylor award for professional service from the Missouri Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MOAHPERD). MOAHPERD also named her University Health Educator of the Year in 2007. In her leisure time she enjoys playing with her grandchildren and doing crafty things.

Marilyn Grechus

Innovative Tools for Health Education

$17.00 USD

Innovative Tools for Health Education: Making Inexpensive Props, Visuals, and Manipulatives guides you in using inexpensive or recycled materials as props for health lessons and activities. This book contains instructions on 30 projects with activity suggestions to make lessons meaningful and memorable, and it helps you

• use ordinary objects lying around the house as effective props in your class;

• bring creativity and freshness to lessons that keep your students engaged in learning; and

• guide your students through practical learning experiences that help them to understand health issues and concepts in new ways.

Audience

Resource for K-12 teachers, health teachers, elementary physical education teachers, and university health instructors.

Preface

Acknowledgments

 

Activities

1. Portable First Aid Kit

2. Stethoscope

3. Puppets

4. Beanbags

5. Health Balls

6. Stress Balls

7. Germs Under the Black Light

8. Alcohol Goggles

9. DUI Game Kit

10. Bottles With Impact

11. Breathless Cigarettes

12. Smokeless Tobacco Can

13. Homemade Phlegm

14. Tobacco Tar

15. Stinky Beanbag

16. Clogged Arteries

17. Components of Blood

18. Organ Vest

19. Model Lungs

20. MyPyramid Pocket Chart

21. Healthy Placemat

22. Simulation of Fat

23. Simulation of Sugar

24. Food Portion Kit

25. Portion Plates

26. A Pound of Fat

27. Fat Vest

28. Dice

29. Inexpensive Teaching Props

 

Appendix A: Patterns

Appendix B: Homemade Clay

About the Author

 

Marilyn Grechus, PhD, is a professor of health education at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri. She has taught health methods courses since 1992 and has presented on related topics at the state, district, and national levels. She has received two Excellence in Teaching awards, one from the University of Central Missouri and the other from the National Society of Leadership & Success. In 2003 she received the Robert M. Taylor award for professional service from the Missouri Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MOAHPERD). MOAHPERD also named her University Health Educator of the Year in 2007. In her leisure time she enjoys playing with her grandchildren and doing crafty things.

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