Standard of Learning

 

4.6  The student will evaluate his/her role in identifying solutions to community health problems. Key concepts/skills include:

1. personal responsibility for exhibiting healthy practices within the school and community setting;
2. the benefits of volunteerism.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will understand the benefits of volunteering and taking personal responsibility for exhibiting health practices within the school and community setting.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• define community. (the group to which you belong)
• describe responsibility. (a job or a duty)
• define volunteer. (someone who helps without expecting a reward)
• analyze the benefits of volunteering to help solve community health problems.
• identify how to model good health practices within the school and community setting.

Sample Lessons

Fit For Life: An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Grade(s): 4
This lesson will make students more aware of the importance of a wellness lifestyle. It will also make them aware of they things the can do to develop a wellness lifestyle.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Nutrition/NUT0001.html
Free

Food Pyramid Game
Grade(s): K-5
This game is for elementary aged kids.  It is meant to familiarize them with the food pyramid.
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/health/food-pyramid-game.htm
Free

Heart Power
Grade(s): K-4
This tag game is used to reinforce three important ways to keep your heart healthy.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=5848
Free

Interactive Heart Rate Worksheet
Grade(s): 4-5
This interactive worksheet is meant to teach students basic facts about the heart, how to find target heart rate, and the importance of aerobic exercise. A secondary purpose of this lesson is to give students more experience using the computer.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=4874
Free

My Health My World
Grades K-4
Promote deeper understanding or relationships between environment and health while students 'do science'. Four units include: My World Indoors (air quality issues); Water and My World (water quality); My Home Planet Earth (global warming); and Food and My World (food production, nutrition, and food safety).
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Contact: http://www.bayloreducationaloutreach.org

Nutrition Education - Choices
Grade(s): 4
In this lesson students will learn how food, exercise and weight control are important.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=953
Free

Nutrition Education - Dietary Solutions
Grade(s): 4
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.  Also students will learn that nutritional problems can have solutions.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=952
Free

Nutrition Education - Height and Weight
Grade(s): 4
Students will learn about height and weight differences.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=954
Free

Nutrition Education - Important Vitamins and Minerals
Grade(s): 4
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness by learning about key vitamins and minerals.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=949
Free

Nutrition Education - Nutritionally Well
Grade(s): 4
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness because nutrients affect growth and well-being.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=951
Free

Nutrition Education - Vitamins and Minerals
Grade(s): 4
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=959
Free

Nutrition Education - Well Rounded Diet
Grade(s): 4
From this lesson students will learn how  well-rounded daily meals effect their mental and physical wellness.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=976
Free

Nutrition Station Circuit
Grade(s): 3-5
The purpose of this lesson plan is to have the kids review and understand the different fitness concepts along with different basketball skills.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=5786
Free

Nutrition Unit
Grade(s): 3-5
In this lesson students will choose a normal meal from a fast food restaurant.  After discussing their choices, they will then analyze the nutrition and lack of nutrition in their meal.
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/health/nutritionunit.htm
Free

Nutritious and Delicious: An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Grade(s): 3-4
Nutrition is the key to feeling good about yourself. This lesson will allow students to study the five food groups and to learn about delicious, healthy foods. At the end of this lesson students will talk about different foods that are healthy. The last day of the lesson they will have a fun day and sample nutritious and delicious foods.
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Nutrition/NUT0008.html
Free

Oral Health Education: Saving Smiles Series- “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”
Grades:  4 & 5
Lesson Plan (1) Identify the components of a balanced meal and describe carbohydrates and their impact on oral health. (SOL 4.1b, d ; 5.2b)
Lesson Plan (2) Develop an awareness of community health resources available (SOL 4.5a,b ; 4.6a ; 5.4a,b ; 5.5c,d,e,f)
Lesson Plan (3) Describe the causes of dental diseases including the role of bacterial plaque, and describe how dental diseases can be
prevented. (SOL 4.4b,d ; 5.2a)
Lesson Plan (4) Identify laws related to the purchase of tobacco products and describe the effects of tobacco on oral health and the body. (SOL 4.4b,d ; 5.2a) 
Sponsor: Virginia Department of Health, Division of Dental Health
Contact:  http://www.vahealth.org/teeth/OralHealthEducation.asp (curriculum resources)
Free

Tox RAP
Grades K-9
Students understand basic environmental health sciences concepts and make informed decisions to reduce their health risks associated with potential environmental pollutants. Lessons use a risk assessment framework.
'The Case of the Green Feathers' (air pollution) Grade 3
'What is Wrong with the Johnson Family?' (investigate unexplained health problems) Grades 3-6
'Mystery Illness Strikes the Sanchez Household' (simulated health hazard) Grades 6-9
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Contact: http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/rc/toxrap/index.htm

Additional Instructional Resources

• American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/
• Do Bugs Need Drugs? - http://www.dobugsneeddrugs.org/teachers/index.html
• 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, by The Earthworks Group (Andrews and McMeel, 1990)
• Get Smart Virginia - http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/getsmart/index.asp
• Good Ideas to Help Young People Develop Good Character, by Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics, 4640 Admiralty Way Suite 101, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6610 -http://www.charactercounts.org
• Promoting Positive Values for School and Everyday Life, by David W. Wilson, Ph.D., and Ruth Ann Wilson, Mark Twain Media/Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc. 1997
• PBS Antibiotic Resistance - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/clock/index.html and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_03.html
• Save the Antibiotic - http://www.savetheantibiotic.com/public_html/index2/index2.html
• Virtual Museum of Bacteria - http://bacteriamuseum.org/

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• explain the benefits of volunteering.
• keep a log of the volunteer opportunities that they participated in either at home or in school (i.e., help another student, collect the mail, etc.).
• create a page following the theme: What can I do to protect my community and environment?

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