Healthy Choices Grades 6-8

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In our ever-expanding role as teachers we are now faced with a growing crisis in childhood obesity. children are increasingly overweight and sedentary. WE play a very important role in our students'' lives but wonder if we should step into this realm.

The health risks are clear; diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease and other illnesses are showing up in children and the long-term impact on health can be devastating. It is also clear that children who are overweight can also face self-esteem issues and other psychological problems. Anything that distracts children from learning concerns us. Also, if we want our children to apply their learning to improving their own lives and our society then we need to not only feed their minds but help them to learn to feed themselves more appropriately.

Healthy Choices was designed to provide teachers with practical and content-rich materials to address three levels of instruction: self-management, diet and exercise. These books take an educational approach, providing students with factual information and then offering interactive activities to reinforce the learning. In addition to the student activities, you will find comprehensive teacher notes with lots of material for extension activities. There is a good deal of science in these books, enabling you to include this material as part of your science curriculum.