Health Advocacy Lesson Term Paper

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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 are very picky about their food and hence this motivates me to devise the following guidelines to advocate healthy nutrition for the young.

Health Issue: Healthy Nutrition

Content Area: Science

Grade Level: Second Grade

Health Advocacy Project Suggestions:

Class group activity integrated into Science standard.

Home assignment based on art and craft activities

Parents participation in workshop

Local community carnival

Classroom lesson guidelines

The first lesson would begin by asking students about the food they like. 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….....

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