Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Holly Alperin, Sarah Benes

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Resource for elementary health educators with 70 new lessons.Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education, Second Edition With Web Resource, is a highly practical resource for elementary health educators looking for innovative, engaging ways to implement health education.The text offers effective skills-based learning activities, lessons, units, and assessments for your classroom that you can use as they are or with modifications to meet the needs of your students. You can use this text to build a completely new curriculum or to supplement your existing curriculum, providing a smooth transition from a content-based approach to a skills-based approach. The authors explain the rationale and foundation for making that transition, putting the lesson plans, activities, and assessments into context as you learn how to implement a skills-based approach.The 70 lessons and activities in Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education have beencreated by the authors and experienced teachers broadly recognized for their expertise in skills-based health education,organized in accordance with the skills in the 2024 SHAPE America National Health Education Standards and aligned with a five-step skill-development model,designed to be adaptable to meet the needs of all students, andenhanced with student worksheets that are available in both English and Spanish.Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education is an ideal companion to The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Third Edition, a foundational text by Benes and Alperin that presents teaching and assessment strategies for planning and implementing a skills-based approach to teaching health education. Together, these two books can help you effectively teach skills-based health education from day one.Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education offers a detailed, easy-to-use learning activity template and employs a teacher-friendly format that has been proven effective in the field. It comes with a web resource that provides digital versions of the book's many worksheets, available in both English and Spanish, plus all of the lessons from the previous edition.The text is organized into two parts. Part I delves into key aspects of planning, implementing, and assessing a skills-based approach, offering you a strong foundation in the core concepts of the approach. Each of the part II chapters is devoted to a skill addressed in the 2024 SHAPE America National Health Education Standards, providing you with the following material:An overview of the skillKey considerations for teaching the skillUnit outlinesAssessmentsLesson plansActivitiesLesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education offers you all you need to put a skills-based approach into practice: the solid foundational information that explains the concepts and the resources, strategies to help you implement the lesson plans, and activities that will aid your students in developing proficiency in the skills emphasized in the national standards.Human Kinetics is proud to publish this book in association with SHAPE America, the national organization that defines excellence for school-based health and physical education professionals across the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-16
Mått216 x 279 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
Upplaga2
FörlagHuman Kinetics Publishers
ISBN9781718240155

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Holly Alperin, EdM, MCHES, is a clinical associate professor at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) with over 20 years of experience in both public health and education. As a faculty member and program coordinator of the department of kinesiology's health and physical education teacher preparation program, she focuses on preparing preservice educators to teach using a skills-based approach. Prior to UNH, she worked at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in a variety of roles that supported schools in their efforts to strengthen policies and increase capacity around school health education and programs, school nutrition programs, and professional learning experiences for educators. Through her work at the local, state, national, and international levels, Alperin provides guidance to schools and community programs as they work to create a culture of health and well-being for each young person. Additionally, her scholarly interests include the socialization of health educators, equity and justice in health education and health promotion programs, and examination of health education and health promotion programs for youth populations across the globe. In addition to other volunteer roles, she is a past vice president of health education for New Hampshire Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; served on the task force to revise the National Health Education Standards; and is a past chair of the Health Education Council for SHAPE America. Alperin is completing her doctorate in education from Plymouth State University. She received her master's degree in education in policy, planning, and administration from Boston University and her bachelor's degree in health education and health promotion from Central Michigan University. She holds the Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) credential. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters. In her free time, you can likely find her in the mountains or at the beach enjoying the best New England has to offer.Sarah Benes, EdD, MPH, CHES, is an associate professor and the coordinator of the school health education program at Southern Connecticut State University. She earned a bachelor's degree (BS) in athletic training at University of Connecticut, a master's degree (EdM) in human movement from Boston University in 2006, and a doctorate (EdD) in curriculum and teaching from Boston University in 2010. In 2021, she also completed a master's degree in public health. She worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer and an assistant athletic trainer at Boston University before transitioning to teaching full time and running the physical and health education programs for six years. Benes then held a position as an associate clinical professor in the School of Health Sciences at Merrimack College. Benes' research and scholarship interests include skills-based health education, equity and justice in health education, supporting students with disabilities in health education, physical activity in the classroom, and enhancing school-based physical and health education programming. She is a past president of SHAPE America, after serving on the board for three years and serving as chair of the Health Education Council. She has done curriculum development with many districts in Massachusetts, has conducted skills-based health education professional development in multiple states across the country and internationally, and has written more than a dozen health education presentations and publications. She currently lives in Natick, Massachusetts, with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys yoga and meditation, reading, hiking, and going on adventures with her family.

Part I. Setting the Foundation for Skills-Based Health EducationChapter 1. Understanding a Skills-Based ApproachConsidering Sociocultural and Sociopolitical ContextAlignment With the 2024 SHAPE America National Health Education StandardsSkill Development and AssessmentParticipatory MethodsFunctional InformationChapter 2. Designing Your Health CurriculumSix Steps of Curriculum DesignUsing This TextPart II. Skills in the ClassroomChapter 3. Accessing Valid and Reliable ResourcesSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: A Healthy Me!Lesson 2: Health DetectivesLesson 3: Who Are Trusted and Supportive Adults?Lesson 4: What? When? Who? How?Lesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: Finding Information and Resources I Can TrustLesson 2: Puberty is AMAZEingLesson 3: Reducing the Stigma Around MenstruationLesson 4: Resources in My CommunityLesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 4. Analyzing Influences on Health BehaviorsSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: Influences All AroundLesson 2: I Celebrate, You CelebrateLesson 3: Influences in Stories and ShowsLessons 4: Influences in Our SchoolLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: What Influences Me?Lesson 2: Media MessagesLesson 3: Peer PressureLessons 4: Managing InfluencesLesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 5. Using Interpersonal Communication for Health and WellnessSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: My Body, My BoundariesLesson 2: I-Statements and BoundariesLesson 3: Affirmations and Setting BoundariesLesson 4: Safe and Unsafe SecretsLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: Components of CommunicationLesson 2: I Can Make I-StatementsLesson 3: Managing Emotions and ConflictLesson 4: Bullying or Conflict?Lesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 6. Decision-Making for Positive Health OutcomesSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: Choices, Choices, Choices!Lesson 2: Let's Be Active in Small SpacesLesson 3: Let's Be Active in Large SpacesLesson 4: Be Active and Stay SafeLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: Being a Decision MakerLesson 2: My Decisions, Your DecisionsLesson 3: Digital Wellness—In Real LifeLesson 4: Decision-Making, Your WayLesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 7. Goal-Setting for Digital Well-BeingSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: The Magnificent Power of Goals!Lesson 2: I Can SET GOALS!Lesson 3: Mix It Up and Try Something NewLesson 4: Creating Our Plate–Adding Variety to Meals and SnacksLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: Let's SET GOALS!Lesson 2: Hygiene Habits: Improving Health of Self and OthersLesson 3: Sleep Hygiene for a Healthier MeLesson 4: How Environment Affects HealthLesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 8. Practicing Health BehaviorsSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: I AM . . . Healthy!Lesson 2: Pedestrian SafetyLesson 3: Bus and Car SafetyLesson 4: Household Poisons SafetyLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: My Health in Many PartsLesson 2: Food and Function: How Fruits and Veggies Support WellnessLesson 3: Food and Function: The Role of Hydration in Supporting WellnessLesson 4: Food and Function: How Fats and Proteins Keep us Going and Support WellnessLesson 5: Final AssessmentChapter 9. Advocating for Yourself and OthersSkill OverviewSkill CuesUnit Outline (Grades K-2)Assessment (Grades K-2)Lesson Plans (Grades K-2)Lesson 1: Advocacy Is a Superpower!Lesson 2: Be a "Soaper" HeroLesson 3: Being a Germ FighterLesson 4: Germ Fighter StationsLesson 5: Final AssessmentUnit Outline (Grades 3-5)Assessment (Grades 3-5)Lesson Plans (Grades 3-5)Lesson 1: A Is for AdvocacyLesson 2: Examining the Impact of Substance Use (Part 1)Lesson 3: Examining the Impact of Substance Use (Part 2)Lesson 4: Who Plays a Role?Lessons 5: Final Assessment