Internet Resources for Unit Project: Hygiene (6^th grade)

1. Internet Source for Students: Teens Health/ Kids Health

• Teen Health
• Summary: This website is very user friendly for all ages of students. I chose this website because I think sometimes health topics are hard to talk about however this website puts it simply for all aged students to understand. There’s even a way to listen to the articles through an audio recording to click on and listen to. It also helps with following along with the articles as it highlights the words that is being read at the same time. This makes it just as beneficial for those students who aren’t very strong in their reading skills to still get the content information.
• Purpose: I would use this website in my PE classes to introduce the hygiene unit and show it to all students as a resource that is safe for them to explore information. Once I’ve introduced it, I would have the students do their own exploring of all of the health topics listed. I would then have a health assignment that they would have to look up and do an assignment on with integrating mathematics. With this assignment students would track their personal hygiene chores so to speak to get in the habit of ensuring they are taking the proper steps to upkeep their hygiene necessities. I would have the students make a bar graph for each hygiene need for each day of the week as a way to track their progress of taking care of their personal health such as brushing their teeth two times daily, and showering/bathing daily, etc.
• Core Integration Idea: I would integrate the health information into a mathematics classroom or assignment. With learning about hygiene needs I could use hair removal/shaving or showering daily as ways to track statistical data in learning how to plot information but also to learn about probability. With probability could use it during the “no shave November” where the students don’t shave and make a guess how long their facial hair (males) or leg hair (females) would grow for an entire month. With promoting hygiene practices I would have the students plot daily if they showered, brushed their teeth, put on deodorant, etc. as an assignment to get the students into these new needs that their body wasn’t used to as a child.

National Health Education Standards (NHES) & Healthy Behavior Outcomes (HBO):

o   NHES Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Describe interrelationships of dimensions of health. H1.W1.6

 HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits.

• PHW1.8.1- Summarize the benefits of good hygiene practices for promoting health and maintain positive social relationships. (HBO 2)

 

Differentiate between communicable and noncommunicable diseases. H1.W2.6

HBO 6: Practice behaviors that prevent infectious diseases.

• PHW.1.8.6- Explain the difference between infectious, noninfectious, acute and chronic diseases. (HBO 6 & 7)
• PHW1.8.8- Summarize ways that common infectious diseases are transmitted (HBO 6 & 9)
• PHW1.8.9- Summarize health practices to prevent the spread of infectious diseases that are transmitted by food, air, indirect contact, and person-to-person contact. (HBO 6 & 9)

o   NHES Standard 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

Describe situations that call for expert health resources and services. H3.W4.6

• PHW.3.8.1- Analyze the validity and reliability of personal health and wellness information.
• PHW.3.8.6- Access valid and reliable personal health and wellness information from home, school, or community.

o   NHES Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Explain effective communication skills. H4.W5.6

• PHW4.8.1- Demonstrate the use of effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance personal health and wellness.
• PHW4.8.4- Demonstrate how to effectively ask for assistance to improve personal health and wellness and the health of others.

o   NHES Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Identify circumstances that help or hinder making healthy decisions related to personal health. H5.W.6.6

• PHW5.8.1- Identify circumstances that help or hinder making a healthy decision related to personal health and wellness.
• PHW5.8.2- Determine when personal health and wellness situations require a decision.
• PHW5.8.5- Distinguish between health and unhealthy alternatives of a personal health and wellness- related decision.
• PHW5.8.6- Predict the potential outcome of healthy and unhealthy alternatives to a personal health and wellness- related decision.
• PHW5.8.7- Choose a healthy alternative when making a personal health and wellness- related decision.

 

Core Integration

o   Mathematics (6^th grade)

Statistics & Probability

Develop understanding of statistical variability.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.A.1

Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. Ex. How long would it take for someone to smell if they didn’t shower daily?

Summarize and describe distributions.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.4

Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5.C

Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.

o   http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/6/SP/

 

2. Internet Source for Teachers: Teachers Pay Teachers

•  Teachers Pay Teachers
•  Summary: This website has a large amount of resources for teachers to purchase and/or have printable worksheets to use for each grade range and subjects. There are vocabulary and language activities for personal hygiene, hygiene units for students with disabilities, personal hygiene activity packets, no prep printable worksheets for personal hygiene, hygiene help with the truth about being smelly and using the common core standards. There are even PowerPoints slides that are already set up and ready for the teacher to use for their lesson.
• Purpose: I would most definitely use this website and the resources with teaching personal hygiene. It comes with a little price for some items however, it’s a collection of many hours other teacher’s and educators have put to work for other teachers to utilize. It has great worksheets for students to use along with assistance to teachers with PowerPoint presentations already set up.

 3. Internet Source for Parents: Parents.com/ Kids Health

• Parents.com
• Kids Health
•   Summary: This website has healthy habits and hygiene health needs from washing hands to bathing, tooth care, and to learn how to instill healthy habits to teach their children the importance of healthy hygiene. The website has many articles for parents to read and become informed on issues such as school bathroom policies to teaching your child about body care to products that are best to use with their children. I also really like the Kids Health website that I used for the students as it has a tab for parents as well. It’s a great website that allows for both parents and children to look up the same information from the same website, just set up differently for parents and children to be best informed.
• Purpose: I would definitely send a newsletter home to parents on not just this website but many others that can help with their children. I would send out a newsletter letting the parents know what to expect their child to learn in their health and physical education class for the quarter or year depending on what it is. I would let them know the subjects we will be covering and also give the parents websites to reference the content that their children will be learning about. With this specific website to just inform the parents of a website that is very helpful to read from to get assistance with some of the tough subject matters that come up with being a parent.