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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity. The results were promising: 63.2% learned about the U.S.

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Tips for Teaching Media Literacy in Skills-Based Health Education

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Teaching media literacy in skills-based health education can do just that. Media literacy is the ability to: Decode media messages and the systems in which they exist; Assess the influence of those messages on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors; and Create media thoughtfully and conscientiously. What Is Media Literacy?

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Teaching Lacrosse in Physical Education Using the New USA Lacrosse Curriculum

SHAPE America

No matter how you refer to it, lacrosse is a great game to teach your students in physical education class! Using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework while teaching lacrosse in PE will allow you to provide multiple options within the learning environment, thus creating equity and accessibility for ALL students.

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Using Ask, Listen, Learn’s Underage Drinking Prevention Curriculum in Your Classroom

SHAPE America

As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. Health-literate students can understand how their decisions affect their health and well-being and the health and well-being of those around them. Health educators work toward their goal of improving their students’ health literacy every day.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

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These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. The heat really gets turned up as students enter the internship or student teaching phase. Running the Race.

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

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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. Fielded an online survey with 434 middle and high school educators to assess their use of and experiences with FDA’s tobacco education materials.

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Lessons Learned From Decades of Advocating for Health and Physical Education

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WHPE leaders and representatives of several other local/state organizations related to health and wellness engaged citizens and state legislators as they stopped at various booths arranged in the Capitol Rotunda with the goal of educating and influencing attendees. This greatly increased WHPE visibility.