Jump Start Health!: Practical Ideas to Promote Wellness in Kids of All Ages - Softcover

Campos, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807751782 ISBN 13: 9780807751787

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2011

Synopsis

This dynamic resource will help classroom teachers jump start their students on a path to a healthy lifestyle. The author helps us understand the obesity crisis and offers practical ideas for incorporating wellness initiatives into the elementary curriculum. Each idea presented has a clear learning objective, addresses federal health standards, and includes a step-by-step approach with activities for the classroom. This hands-on, comprehensive book provides a set of tools that will help teachers and health practitioners improve the eating habits and exercise patterns of youngsters nationwide.

Unlike other health curricula, Jump Start Health! is unique because it provides teaching materials that:

• Ask a range of critical thinking questions.
• Encourage collaboration and community building.
• Embody the National Education Standards and National Health Standards.

About this title

About the Author

David Campos is an associate professor of education at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807751782
• ISBN 13: 9780807751787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240