Describes an aerobic activity set to music for children that mimics animal movements. Example exercises include walking like a penguin or jumping like a cricket. Stresses basic aerobic principles and designing the program at the level of children's motor skills. Benefits include reaching people who normally don't visit nature centers, and bridging…

Most smokers begin smoking as teenagers. The younger teenagers are when they start smoking, the more likely it is they will become heavy smokers, and the less likely that they will ever quit. This resource guide points out the problems of teenage smoking and provides action plans to combat using tobacco. Background information is presented about…

Although considerable data exist linking individual lifestyle variables to health outcomes, little is known about how the elderly differ from younger adults with respect to both their health seeking behavior and their beliefs about health. A national survey contrasted 155 persons aged 65 years of age or older with 1100 younger adults in order to…

Provided in this guide is an array of supplementary activities centered around the topic of aviation. Although the activities are designed for students in grades 2 to 6, teachers are encouraged to adapt them to other grade levels or to the individual abilities of students. The activities are presented in five parts by subject area and within these…

This document presents abstracts of the papers presented at the convention of the research council of the Southern District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. It is published for the use of teachers and researchers in the field of physical education. (JD)

Running is a popular form of exercise which people do for different reasons. Competitive runners (N=99) and noncompetitive runners (N=28) responded to a survey of 10 reasons for running by choosing their most important reasons for running. Subjects also indicated their age, sex, how long they had been running, their average weekly mileage, how…

Physical health is the focus of the third in a series of health education curriculum guides for physically handicapped students (grades K-12). An introductory section touches on physical health activities at the Human Resources School (Albertson, New York) and includes photographs of good health habits. The remainder of the document provides…

This document describes new health programs with the purpose of strengthening the ways in which health care is organized and delivered in communities. These programs include the National Center for Health Services Research & Development, Community Health Service, National Health Service Corps, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health,…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Six of the Quality Education Program (regarding good health habits) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to provide the teacher with essential cancer information and suggested learning experiences for fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students. The suggested activities are intended as a beginning point from which the pupils can begin to acquire the intellectual skills needed for making appropriate health…

These curriculum guidelines for tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade students discuss the prevention, early detection and treatment, and control of cancer. The nature of cancer, the epidemiological factors related to it, the types of treatments available, and rehabilitation of cancer victims are discussed. Finally, the unit discusses personal and…

The increasing popularity of health promotion and lifestyle management techniques call for a careful look at the misuse and costs of suasion, imposition of values as science, social inequities and individual consequences, and biases in communication of health risk information. The application of more systematic cost-benefit analysis is…

Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between literacy and health. Over the past several decades, many studies have been conducted to analyze the difficulty of health-related print materials, evaluate patients' ability to read these types of materials and to recognize common medical terms, and determine whether patients'…

The activities in this teacher's manual are designed to help challenge the notion that adolescents think the use of alcohol is part of the growing up experience. It is geared towards activities with middle school students that reinforce to students that they have the potential to control their own lives and make healthy choices. It suggests…

Elementary school drug education in Illinois has undergone some major philosophical changes from a fact centered, hard sell'' crash program approach to programs emphasizing value activities and personal decision making about drugs within various health areas. Existing drug education programs have been selected from three different levels to…