Health Information in a Changing World: Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781598843989)

This holistic guide explains how school librarians and teachers can successfully integrate relevant health concepts and life skills throughout the curriculum for students K through 12.

In the United States, convenience food and soft drink-based diets, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and obesity have become common in youth culture. The importance of health education merits integration throughout school curricula; unfortunately, research shows that many teachers do not feel prepared to teach health issues within their subject areas. This book will encourage all librarians and teachers--no matter their specific area of instruction--to include health lessons in their teaching.

Health Information in a Changing World: Practical Approaches for Teachers, Schools, and School Librarians provides a complete action plan for librarians and teachers who want to provide better health information to students and their caregivers. It contains an extensive discussion of teaching health within curriculum areas such as literature, history and biography, art, science and mathematics, industrial technology, and agriculture. Tips on accessing and evaluating health information in print and electronic media are presented, as well as practical suggestions for effective instructional methods, including ideas on conducting demonstrations, field trips, speaker programs, and online distance education. New findings regarding teaching effectiveness assessment are also presented.

Author: W. Bernard Luckenbill,Barbara Froling Immroth
ISBN-10: 1598843982
ISBN-13: 9781598843989
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2010
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.96h x 7.08w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 148
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2010 - Recommended - Readable
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 198