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Health Advocacy Lesson Guidelines for 2nd Grade
This is a paper that outlines a health advocacy lesson guideline for second grade and show how the community members, parents and students can participate in the campaign. It has sources.
Teaching elementary school students is a great responsibility which at times takes over the role of the parents as well as other loved ones. A teacher is not only a friend but a mentor, general physician and caretaker and therefore has to be aware of the health status and the mental well being of the student too. In the process of anticipating these health related problems, the teacher needs to learn before hand of the ongoing issues and attempt to advocate it in the class by integrating it into the lessons. Young children I think need their educators to be aware more than any level of learning as they are totally unaware, and their parents depend on the teachers to carry out the responsibility of care taker in their absence during school time. In the course of my teaching second graders for instance as a teacher I am to feed the children despite their revulsion. Students...
They would tell of their experience of why they like it. Vice versa they are encouraged to discuss foods they dislike. After having discussed this, I would begin by showing them the Food Pyramid and ask them to identify the food they like or do not like. The objective of this visual dimension is to establish the lesson that some food is good for their health and some are bad-even though it may taste good. Self-discovery is the strategy here to show that student's preferences may…
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The Food Guide Pyramid, Accessed on 11-1-2003 at http://www.nal.usda.gov:8001/py/pmap.htm
Education World, Accessed on 11-1-2003 at http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson054.shtml
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