HEALTH LITERACY AND STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

Catalog description

This course will introduce Skills-Based Health Education for PreK-12 students. There are eight national (and state) health education standards. Seven of those standards are skills. In this course, students will explore each standard and key content that should be taught to PreK-12 students. This pedagogy class will expose students to participatory methods essential for engaging health education classes and lesson planning while also focusing on what students will learn about health topics including nutrition, physical activity and fitness, injury prevention and safety, and states legally required health topics.