Showing posts with label Health Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Education. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

New Health Teaching Aids

Pumping Heart Model
Demonstrates how the blood flows through the heart and into the lungs.

Healthy Helpings: A MyPlate Pocket Chart
28" square hanging pocket chart features 90 photo-illustrated food cards (with food groups on reverse for self-checking) and 2 back storage pockets.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

New Health and Hygiene Books

5 Minute Activities for Elementary Students
These 5-minute lessons are to reinforce, introduce, or conclude lessons in hygiene and safety and to utilize brief learning opportunities in the classroom.







From the Looking After Me series

Teeth
Marta has a wobbly tooth. Her mother explains that all children have teeth that fall out, and new ones grow in their place. Marta learns all about how to clean her teeth and look after them so that they last her whole adult life.

Taking Medicine
Provides information about the different types of medicines and how to take them safely.

Safety
Molly is an adventurous little girl who never listens to her parents, disobeying all of their rules. One day, Molly gets lost and a strange man offers her a sweet. Teaches children how to stay safe.

Keeping Clean
In this playful lesson of the importance of cleaning up after playing dirty, Karim and Kurt--two little boys who hate bathing and keeping clean--visit the zoo and see how animals groom themselves.

Eating Well
Teaches the benefits of healthy eating.

Exercise
Tom and Emily learn how much fun exercise can be when their grandmother visits.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

New Teaching Aids

Football Multiplication
This bingo-like game teaches multiplication facts to 12. For 2-10 players, ages 7 and up.

SpinZone Magnetic Whiteboard Game: Nutrition
Using a whiteboard, the magnetic pieces of this game are used to teach the food pyramid, food groups, and nutrition. For ages 5 and up.

Alphabet Train Floor Puzzle
Contains 28 large pieces which form a 10' long puzzle displaying the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet as cars in a train. Each letter is accompanied by a picture of an animal that starts with that letter, with the name of the animals written on the cars. For ages 3 and up.

Colors & Shapes Dominoes
Uses 72 dominoes displaying 12 colors and 12 shapes to reinforce those concepts. For ages 3 and up.

Bilingual Everyday Words
42 two-piece, self-correcting puzzles match English and Spanish words. Ideal for English language learners and for teaching Spanish as a foreign language. For ages 6 and up.

Money Bags: Coin Value Game
Players follow the path on the game board, earning and exchanging coins as they go. For 2-4 players, ages 7 and up.

Sequence States & Capitals
In this bingo-like game, players match each state's shape and color on playing cards to the same state shape and color on the board. Instructions in English and Spanish. For 2-6 players, ages 7 and up.

Pizza Fraction Fun
Game may be played seven different ways, including matching fraction equivalents and adding and subtracting fractions. For 2-6 players, ages 6 and up.

Monday, September 21, 2009

New Teaching Aids

Mas Palabras e Imagene Tarjetas (More picture words flash cards)
Contains picture flash cards showing 96 Spanish words. For ages 5 and older.

Verbos
Contains 94 cards showing Spanish verbs and instructions for use. Instructions are in Spanish. For ages 6 and up.

Match-It! Mathematics
Contains 30 self-correcting two-piece puzzle sets teaching basic mathematical skills. For ages 3 and up.

Healthy Hurdles: A Nutrition & Fitness Game
Helps students learn to identify multicultural foods and which food groups they belong to according to the USDA food pyramid. For 2-6 players, ages 6 and up.