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Health Education: Avoid or Reduce Health Risks

Health Education: Avoid or Reduce Health Risks. By Kristy Seaver. National Health Education Standard 7. Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. Target Audience : 3-5 grade level Standard: 7.5.3

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Health Education: Avoid or Reduce Health Risks

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  1. Health Education:Avoid or Reduce Health Risks By Kristy Seaver

  2. National Health Education Standard 7 Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. • Target Audience : 3-5grade level • Standard: 7.5.3 • Objectives: Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks. • Give examples of behaviors that avoid or reduce risks.

  3. What are healthy behaviors?

  4. Dental Health • What kinds of things damage your teeth? • Sugar • Not brushing • Not flossing

  5. How to take care of your teeth • Brush ALL your teeth at least twice a day • Spend 3 minutes brushing • Learn how to floss your teeth • Visit the dentist twice a year

  6. What are we avoiding? • Gingivitis • Bad breath • Cavities • Gum Disease • Oral Cancer

  7. Do you get enough sleep? • How much sleep do you think you should get each night??

  8. Sleep • Most kids between 5 and 12 get about 9.5 hours a night, but really you need 10 or 11 hours each night. • What are the risks involved?? • Being sick all the time • Not able to follow directions • Getting other diseases.

  9. How to get more sleep • Try to go to bed at the same time • Have a calming bedtime routine • Limit intake of caffeinated drinks or foods near bedtime. • Don’t watch scary shows close to bedtime.

  10. Germs • The average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. • An average of 1 in 6 people wash their hands after using the restroom.

  11. What do germs cause? • Common cold • Bacterial diseases • Vomiting • Diarrhea • And others

  12. How to prevent getting germs? • WASH YOUR HANDS!!! When is the best time? • before eating or touching food  • after using the bathroom • after blowing your nose or coughing • before and after visiting a sick person

  13. How to wash your hands • Use warm water • Use soap • Make you lather up all over • Wash for 10-15 seconds, sing Happy Birthday • Rinse and dry with a clean towel.

  14. Sources • http://kidshealth.org • http://tummytroubles.blogspot.com/2006/05/fun-germ-facts.html • http://www.touchfreesolutions.net/16thpage.html • http://mainmoms.com • www.foodsafety.gov

  15. Sources cont. • http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/images/hdc_0001_0002_0_img0118.jpg • http://www.johnmh.com/hygiene/floss.jpg • http://treehugger.com

  16. Teacher Web Name: Ms. Seaver • Quiz Name: Health Education Quiz (It’s the very last icon on my homepage)

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