Standard of Learning

2.4   The student will recognize the influence that health resources and professionals have on personal health. Key concepts/skills include:

1. health care professionals, resources, and services;
2. emergency services;
3. print, audiovisual, and electronic media.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will identify print, audiovisual, and electronic media sources that provide health information.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• identify print, audiovisual, and electronic media sources that provide health information:
  • in their community; and
  • in the state, nation, and the world.

Sample Lessons

Lessons from the Library
April is School Library Media Month, a great time to reexamine your students' library know-how! Do your students know diddly about Dewey? Do they believe that "biography" is a television show? Do they think call numbers belong in a telephone's memory? Are your students convinced that a "librarian" is a person born under the sign of Libra? If so, it's time to reel them in and get them reacquainted with reading, researching, and the library! Included: Five fun lessons to reinforce library skills! During your April observance of School Library Media Month, celebrate with lessons that encourage your students to rediscover the wealth of knowledge found in your school's library! Library skills can often get lost among the rigors of any curriculum, but these are the skills needed to complete tasks adults face every day -- finding information, summing it up, internalizing it, and sharing it. This month, schedule a visit to the library -- in person or online -- to sharpen your students' research skills!
Sponsor: Education World
Contact: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson261.shtml
Free

LifeSkills Training
Grades: K-5
Model substance abuse prevention and competency enhancement program focusing on the major social and psychological factors causing substance use and abuse. Teaches drug resistance skills, personal management skills, and general social skills. Focuses on self-esteem, decision-making, influence of media, stress, communication, and assertiveness issues.
Contact: http://www.lifeskillstraining.com
Cost

Quality Information Check List
The Quick web site is a resource to help young people evaluate the information they find on the Internet. It uses imaginary examples, quizzes and puzzles to allow young people to explore for themselves the concepts around information quality. Many of the examples are health related, but the concepts can be used with any subjects that require information skills.
Sponsor: Health Development Agency
Contact: http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Free

Teaching TV: Critically Evaluating TV
Aimed at grades 1 to 6 this lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom. In this lesson, students learn that each television product has unique characteristics that can be critically evaluated.
Sponsor: Media Awareness Network
Contact: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources
Free

Teaching TV: Learning With Television
Aimed at grades 1 to 6 this lesson is one of a five-part unit that provides teachers with ideas for teaching TV in the elementary classroom. In this lesson, students learn about television as a source of information, and how this information is presented from a particular point of view.
Sponsor: Media Awareness Network
Contact: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/
Free

You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
The objective of this activity is to have students learn that how something is packaged is not necessarily the way it really is. It is very important for children of this age to know whom to trust and how to receive the real, accurate message regarding something they are going to do, buy, or support. Learning to question the truth of messages sent to children this age can often be a first step to understanding that questioning first is better than wishing you had questioned after action was taken.
Sponsor: American Council for Drug Education
Contact: http://www.acde.org/educate/k3plan1.htm
Free

Instructional Resources

• American Heart Association
• Consumer Product Safety Commission's Kidd Safety - http://www.education-world.com/parents/health/safety.shtml
• Department of Public Health
• National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
• Siemens Corporation and Marconi Medical - http://www.uhrad.com/kids.htm
• Telephone directory/yellow pages

Assessment Ideas

The student will locate a printed, audiovisual, or electronic media source that provides health information.

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