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Skin Cancer Resources for Health Class Teachers

Physical Education Update

Here’s are some excellent skin cancer prevention resources for your health classes. There are three instructional formats that teachers can use, including SMART or Promethean interactive whiteboard, or Microsoft PowerPoint. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com. To check out the PE Update.com website, click here.

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7 Ways to Turn Health Literacy Month Into a School-Wide Celebration

SHAPE America

What if the entire school and community applauded students for developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be health-literate individuals ? As a middle school health and physical education teacher, I know first-hand that initiatives impacting the whole school and surrounding community can be powerful.

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Be on the Lookout for Students Who Play “The Choking Game”

Physical Education Update

What signs may alert teachers to students who are playing the choking game? As Physical education teachers, you are in a position to prevent a tragedy. You can discuss this game and its dangers during health classes. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health , May 1, 2008. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

Arguments Against Physical Education in Schools To thoroughly explore the question “should physical education be required” let’s start with the arguments against PE. ” The old school term “gym class” usually elicits images of rolling out the balls and playing dodgeball.

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Drug Education Lesson Plans

PLT4M

We break down the importance of drug education, highlight drug education curriculum from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), and talk about how schools can incorporate activities into physical education and health classes. In many cases, the best place for drug education curriculum is physical education and health classes.

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Sleep Lesson Plans For Students

PLT4M

Integrating sleep education into physical education and health classes is a progressive step towards fostering holistic well-being among students. Incorporating sleep lesson plans into PE and health is also a natural fit. Physical education teacher walks around a class full of students working on a lesson.

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3 Things Schools Can Do to REALLY Improve Student Health

SHAPE America

As a teacher in the San Francisco Unified school district, one of the districts featured in this study, I’ve been able to see firsthand how effective these strategies can be. Safe and supportive environments connect adolescents to a network of caring peers and adults, including parents, other primary caregivers, and teachers.

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