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Innovative Tools for Health Education
Making Inexpensive Props, Visuals, and Manipulatives
Author: Marilyn Grechus
$23.95 CAD
Innovative Tools for Health Education: Making Inexpensive Props, Visuals, and Manipulatives guides you in using inexpensive or recycled materials as props for health lessons and activities. This book contains instructions on 30 projects with activity suggestions to make lessons meaningful and memorable, and it helps you
• use ordinary objects lying around the house as effective props in your class;
• bring creativity and freshness to lessons that keep your students engaged in learning; and
• guide your students through practical learning experiences that help them to understand health issues and concepts in new ways.
Audience
Resource for K-12 teachers, health teachers, elementary physical education teachers, and university health instructors.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Activities
1. Portable First Aid Kit
2. Stethoscope
3. Puppets
4. Beanbags
5. Health Balls
6. Stress Balls
7. Germs Under the Black Light
8. Alcohol Goggles
9. DUI Game Kit
10. Bottles With Impact
11. Breathless Cigarettes
12. Smokeless Tobacco Can
13. Homemade Phlegm
14. Tobacco Tar
15. Stinky Beanbag
16. Clogged Arteries
17. Components of Blood
18. Organ Vest
19. Model Lungs
20. MyPyramid Pocket Chart
21. Healthy Placemat
22. Simulation of Fat
23. Simulation of Sugar
24. Food Portion Kit
25. Portion Plates
26. A Pound of Fat
27. Fat Vest
28. Dice
29. Inexpensive Teaching Props
Appendix A: Patterns
Appendix B: Homemade Clay
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