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How to Teach Students About Death in the Health Education Classroom (or Any Classroom)

SHAPE America

When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience. Here are five tips on how to teach students about death in the health education classroom (or any classroom). We also help them become more comfortable talking about other uncomfortable topics.

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Using the National Health Education Standards and Other Important Elements to Guide Your Teaching in Health Ed

SHAPE America

How do I decide what to teach?” The question above is one I am often asked as the person responsible for health and adapted/physical education in Oregon’s Portland Public Schools (PPS). PPS provides more health education than many school districts in the United States. So how DO you decide what to teach?

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New FDA Resource Helps Teachers Educate Students About the Dangers of Vaping

SHAPE America

As educators, you know that National Health Education Week is a good time to focus on issues that affect the health of our nation’s youth. Teachers will find lesson plans, interactive tools, infographics, and videos with tobacco facts and tips about how to teach teens about the dangers of e-cigarette use.

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Planning for Health Education: A Teacher’s Superpower

Human Kinetics

When instructional decisions have been made in advance, and assessments developed, a teacher can have confidence that they are well prepared to teach, and this results in reduced stress. Planning in the health education classroom is, in some ways, different than in other subject matter classrooms, yet in other ways it is the same.

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Lessons Learned From Decades of Advocating for Health and Physical Education

SHAPE America

At the booth, they connected to school board members and administrators, spoke about standards and assessments, and handed out printed materials. Several past presidents, the association’s executive director and secretary (a former HPE teacher and administrator) made more than 50 contacts speaking to school personnel from across the state.

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Underage Drinking Prevention Lesson Plans

PLT4M

The program provides versatile classroom resources to facilitate conversations about the effects of alcohol on the developing brain with your students, while teaching them about the scientific effects of what they put in their bodies. Assessments Lessons within the program include a series of formative and summative assessments.

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5 Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in School

SHAPE America

average GPA), and were nearly twice as likely to report that they did not plan to pursue any post-secondary education (e.g., vs. 9.4%) We also know that sexual health education often stigmatizes or completely excludes LGBTQ+ youth. college or trade school) than those who experienced lower levels (16.6%

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