See computer science integration opportunities in middle school health in this crosswalk of the two disciplines.
Video lesson intended for grades 3-5 with a mindfulness moment, warmup, instruction and practice of basic balance and transfer of weight movements, and a sequence of two movements. Video is 15:48 minutes in length.Video created by Virginia's Chief Movement Officers cadre in collaboration with Focused Fitness, Virginia Department of Health, and Virginia Department of Education.
Students will be able to use two-letter consonant blends to decode & spell one-syllable words.
CATCH Healthy Smiles is a program for grades Pre-K – 2 that is designed to improve the oral health of students by teaching about and encouraging proper toothbrushing and flossing techniques, a nutritious diet, and regular visits to a dentist.
Through the program, students learn about the major factors that cause tooth decay and develop the skills needed to maintain a healthy smile. The CATCH Healthy Smiles program is designed to help students:
* Discover the causes of tooth decay, including dietary choices and poor oral health habits in our oral health education programs;
* Develop skills for brushing, flossing, and choosing tooth-healthy foods & drinks;
* Recognize the importance of regular dental visits; and,
* Create personal oral health care goals.
CATCH Healthy Smiles was developed by researchers at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, with funding support from the National Institutes of Health.
Video lesson intended for grades 3-5 with a breathing activity, instruction about cardiorespiratory endurance, activities, and review. Video lesson is 18:23 minutes in length. Video created by Virginia's Chief Movement Officers cadre in collaboration with Focused Fitness, Virginia Department of Health, and Virginia Department of Education.
In this activity, students will learn to identify the 7 continents by name and location through song activity blending active learning. Students will learn facts pertaining to each continent and practice syllable breaking strategies.
Circulatory System 101 is a Health lesson designed by a Physical Education/Health Teacher to support Health instruction. Created By: Willie Miles Powhatan County Public Schools
The student will create & solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction
Following a brief warm-up routine where students pretend to be a plant reacting to sunlight and water, students learn motions representing a period, question mark, and exclamation mark. As our narrators read ten sentences, students perform the motion that matches the appropriate end punctuation for each sentence.
The nine tick and tick-borne disease prevention activities in this package align with the Virginia Standards of Learning for Health and Physical Education for 3rd to 5th grade. Topics include, but are not limited to: how to identify a tick, proper tick-borne disease prevention techniques, and safe tick removal. These active learning activities are presented in a lesson plan-type format and can be used alone or in combination to easily create lessons or a unit. They can be easily modified for use with older school-age students and adult populations.These educational resources were developed by a Health and Physical Educator and a Master Certified Health Education Specialist in support of Virginia House Bill 850. The bill requires the development of school-age-appropriate educational resources for schools and public libraries by 2028 to protect children from Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.
Video lesson intended for grades K-2 with a mindfulness moment and instruction and movement practice for the five food groups. Video is 8:31 minutes in length. Video created by Virginia's Chief Movement Officers cadre in collaboration with Focused Fitness, Virginia Department of Health, and Virginia Department of Education.
Building school environments which prevent drug use before it starts.
Dr. Mylène (“Mee-lenn”) Huynh (“Winn”) sits down with MWM President Phyllis Wilson to discuss her service in the United States Air Force, how her childhood in Vietnam during the war impacted her choice to join the Air Force, and how her early exposure to her parent’s medical background influenced her current medical practice. Dr. Huynh is board certified in Family Practice and Preventive Medicine with over 20 years experience in integrative health and medical acupuncture. She is a functional medicine practitioner with special interest and training in clinical nutrition, lifestyle medicine, mindfulness meditation and evidence-based approaches to reversing chronic diseases. She completed a 21-year US Air Force career as a flight surgeon, family medicine academic faculty, clinic director, consultant to the USAF Surgeon General on preventive medicine and global health. In addition to TruPoint Health, she serves as an integrative health physician at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Huynh holds appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. HERstory programming explores the lived experiences of women veterans throughout American history.
This sample lesson plan incorportates WIDA Key Language Uses to support English language development in conjunction with content instruction.
Data set and map pertaining to health expenditure per capita for all countries . The World Bank specifies health expenditure as a World Development Indicator (WDI) -- the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development.
The student will be able to count forward to 20 by memory.
This interactive graphic, produced in partnership with Virtual Virginia, features a photo of a stereotypical teenager’s room, with hover-activated graphics that include text describing common hiding places for vapes and related objects.
This is a learning guide that uses data to investigate the characteristics of the Washington DC, metropolitan area homeless population, and the relationship between homelessness and several measures of health.
Map of Africa coded by the number of underweight children per square kilometer. It is thus a measure of the absolute density of hungry individuals, a combination of hunger and population density.
The importance of sleep lesson is designed to help students create healthy sleep patterns by infusing creative writing skills. Created By: Kristy Henderson of Powhatan County Public Schools