K-12 Curriculum and Teaching Tools
This page is divided into three helpful sections:
- general and topic specific teaching tools,
- links to health education curriculum sites around the world wide web,
- links to online ordering for health education curriculum --videos, models, educational brochures, posters, etc.
Teaching Tools
Note: Please also submit YOUR health lessons to us at
akagi@ku.edu for consideration for online
sharing with other health teachers.
- A free tool for health teachers who want to use rubrics, but don\'t have the time to develop them from scratch.
- Free web-based program that allows teachers to organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons, with the resource list remaining visible, allowing the student to easily stay on track.
- Free web-based program that allows teachers to create quizzes for students to take online (including multi-lingual quizzes) with automatic scoring.
- Free web-based program with a myriad of helpful tools for teachers. Anxious about integrating online technology into your curriculum? Check out teacher testimonies on this site.
- Health education curriculum.
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
- The Eleven Principles of Character Education
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Communicable and Chronic Diseases
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Consumer Health
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Environmental Health
- Environmental health lessons for students
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Family Living
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Growth and Development (includes sexuality & relationship education)
- Love and Sex Understanding Relationships, A Health Lesson For Grades 7-12 Powerpoint Download.
- Love and Sex Instructor\'s Manual Word Download
- Transparency Masters Word download
- Love and Sex Pre/Post Tests Word Download (Dr. Cynthia Akagi, KU)
- Dating/Relationship Wallet Card Master Word Download (Dr. Cynthia Akagi, KU)
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Injury Prevention & Safety
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Mental & Emotional Health
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NutritionCancer & Nutrition Health Lesson, Grades 9-12 Powerpoint Download
(Dr. Jennifer Thomas, Emporia State University, & Allison Blevins, Kansas City) -
Personal Health & Physical Activity
Links To Online Health Education Curriculum
- K-12 curriculum for teachers that covers nine core health topics, 278 lessons that include skills-based student assessment, transparency masters and student handouts.
- Health lessons resource site for teachers. Subscribe to their free newsletter
- The Advanced Learning Technology in Education Consortium is one of ten RTECs funded by the U.S. Department of Education (links provided). Each regional site offers a host of helpful teaching tools, and included in some sites are links to various health lessons. The immediate benefit of altec to health teachers is Rubistar, QuizStar, Trackstar, and 4teachers.com also listed at the beginning of our Teaching Tools section.
- Bills itself as the "premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students," offering a number of PreK-12 health lessons.
- An online website for students from the US Dept. of Health & Human Services. An excellent site for students to work on when they have individual computer time. Includes Cool & UnCool Stuff (health education), Art Contests (yearly contests for students by different national health organizations), and Games (85 game links to a variety of health topics). All links have been deemed suitable for students, proficiency levels vary from elementary to secondary.
Links To Online Ordering for Health Education Curriculum
- Award winning health videos, sexuality, nutrition, character education, peer pressure
- PK-12 curriculum, pamphlets, videos, models, displays, etc
- Grade 2-College, curriculum, pamphlets, videos, models, displays, etc.
- Character education videos
- Student pamphlets on a variety of health issues, including relationships, abstinence, HIV, STIs, violence, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
- Character education videos for teens
- Premier company for health models, displays, also curriculum, videos, etc.
- Elem/Secondary curriculum, posters, pamphlets, videos, models, displays, etc.
