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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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How To Improve Mental Health In Schools

PLT4M

Student mental health issues are on the rise! Tiered Systems Of Support For Mental Health In Schools A comprehensive school mental health system is designed to support all students and teachers with a coordinated, tiered approach. A student looks at their laptop during a physical education class. How can we help?

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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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Health Education Curriculum

PLT4M

Challenges Of Health Education Curriculum Implementing a comprehensive health education curriculum in schools isn’t easy! Let’s be honest, health class has a bad wrap! And beyond just the common misconceptions of school health class, there are also a lot of other challenges teaching health!

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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.