Notes on Ninth Grade Health Class....

For covering health, I'm looking at using some books I have at home, such as The Way WE Work; a Nat. Geo. book entitled Body: The Complete Human; a Nat. Geo. book entitled The Incredible Machine; and maybe even a book entitled Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature (looking at how medical and health care have evolved over time).

I've pulled a bunch of online lesson plans for various topics, too:

Mental Health

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lesson.../Mental_Health (the ones for high school)

...and a variety of other health related topics

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health

First Aid

http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~mtp...DoesItHurt.pdf

(And I want him to take CPR/First Aid courses, too....)

Tobacco Awareness Issues

http://www.media-awareness.ca/englis...nd_tobacco.cfm

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas...son.asp?ID=930

Parasites and Disease

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xp...parasites.html

Sex Ed Topics (perhaps, haven't reviewed yet)

http://www.safehealthyschools.org/se...on/gateway.htm

http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/sex1/

AIDS

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/te...os-at-risk.cfm

Sexual Harassment

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/te...harassment.cfm

Health Occupations

http://www.ncsu.edu/pbl/pbl_lessons/...gh_health.html

The Movie Supersize Me

http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=98

Lesson Plans to go with that movie

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/PEODo...rSizeMe912.htm

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/te...nutrition.html

Michael Pollan's books; the movie The Future of Food; the book Seeds of Deception

I haven't organized these into any meaningful order of usage yet.  I also want to look at a high school health curriculum entitled "Total Health" to see if I want to integrate it into my plans:

http://www.homeschoolfcgs.com/product_info.php/cPath/34/products_id/4557

Regena