Program Description
A Comprehensive Health & Nutrition Program
for Middle School Ages & Families
Program Objectives
Adolescents who participate in THIS IS YOUR LIFE! will learn:
- How to choose a balanced diet to prevent obesity and promote lifelong health.
- How daily physical activity helps reduce stress, build strength, and maintain a healthy weight. And, how to find activities they like to do, so they'll keep on doing them regularly.
- To discredit the narrow images of beauty promoted by the media and help them discover that "every body is different, and different is a great thing!"
- To address the health consequences of eating disorders, and to avoid fad dieting pitfalls.
- To stay tobacco-free and how to resist industry, media, and peer group pressures regarding tobacco and substance abuse.
- How they can prevent
osteoporosis, the bone thinning disease, while still in their teen years, through healthy eating and exercise habits.
- To build self-esteem from the inside out, and understand that looking and feeling good is a result of healthy lifestyle choices.
Program Includes
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One Theater Performance:
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| Grade levels: |
Grades 5–9 & Families |
| Audience size: |
Up to 400 (exceptions made) |
| Running time: |
45 minutes |
| Space needs: |
Auditorium, cafetorium, gym, or any large performance
area |
One School Resource Kit:
- Follow-Up Discussion Guide for Teachers
- Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
- Parent Letter and Handouts
- Student Response Paper and Handouts
- Teacher Letter and Handouts
- Teacher's Evaluation
- Handout Packet for Health, Guidance, and Food Service Staff
- Event Poster
- Press Packet
PLUS: This Is Your Life! Activity Guidebook
This nationally-acclaimed guidebook is an easy-to-use,
comprehensive resource, ideal for all health-related teachers
and school staff. It's designed to provide everything educators
need to explore the topics raised
in This Is Your Life! in greater depth.
Features
hundreds of hands-on activities which meet "The National Health Education
Standards for Achieving Health Literacy."
Includes reproducible
activity sheets and handouts; self-assessments; background information;
and recommended resources to easily integrate nutrition and
health into core subject areas.
Activity Guidebook Segments:
- Body Image and Healthy Weight
- Healthy Eating
- Get Physical!
- De-Stress!
- Putting It All Together
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Updated 2008! |
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