World of Wellness Health Education Series. All this from one program? WOW! Promote health literacy by providing students with current, comprehensive health

World of World of WellnessWellnessHealth Education

Series

All this from one All this from one program? WOW!program? WOW!

• Promote health literacy by providing students with current, comprehensive health education.

• Enhance your efforts to meet standards for health, physical education, and English language arts.

• Address childhood obesity with a strong emphasis on physical activity and nutrition.

• Give children multicultural connections that are real and relevant throughout the curriculum.

Meet the Challenge Meet the Challenge of Coordinated of Coordinated

Health Education in Health Education in Elementary SchoolElementary School

Fun. Easy. CompleteFun. Easy. Complete

•Each WOW! lesson is presented in a fun story format that keeps kids engaged, while they learn about health and strengthen their abilities in reading, writing, and other cross-curricular topics.


•Teach your students the importance of leading an active and healthy life through conceptually grounded, context-based lessons.


•WOW! functions as a group of kits—without the cost of a kit!

How WOW! worksHow WOW! works

Each level of The World of Wellness Health Education series consists of the following:

• a teacher’s guide• a teacher’s resource CD-ROM• a student book that corresponds to the

students’ levels

WOW! student books WOW! student books make reading fun!make reading fun!

• The student books present the information in a story format that keeps kids interested.


• Throughout the student books your students will also find sidebars with factual and fun information. These pieces of information enhance the story and can often be used as part of the lessons.




WOW! Health WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Education Teacher’s

GuideGuideEach WOW! book contains these 6 units: 1. Safety, Injury Prevention, Personal

Health, and Physical Activity; 2. Nutrition Education; 3. Growth and Development, Body

Systems, Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention;

4. Mental, Emotional, Family, and Social Health;

5. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs; and

6. Community, Consumer, and Environmental Health.


GuideGuide• Background information for

the content of each of these six units is provided so that you can become familiar with the concepts you will be teaching in the lessons.


GuideGuide• In addition, each unit within the teacher’s guide contains – lesson plans, – teacher resources, – Web resources, – literature links, and – parent involvement

newsletters.• Much of this information is

also repeated on the CD-ROM that’s included with each teacher’s guide.

WOW! Optional WOW! Optional teaching materials teaching materials help you customize help you customize

delivery to meet delivery to meet local mandateslocal mandates

Optional Teaching Optional Teaching MaterialsMaterials

• The WOW! Health Education series has several options to make it easy for you to tailor teaching materials to your local mandates and needs. Foremost, the main lesson content teaches the topics thoroughly and accurately without touching on potentially controversial topics.


• The teacher’s guides include a separate Optional Materials section for those districts and schools who wish to share more information about – growth and development, – body systems, – health promotion, – disease prevention related to HIV and

AIDS, – sexuality education, and – substance abuse prevention.

NO optional topics NO optional topics are mentioned in are mentioned in the student books the student books or big books, and or big books, and

the optional topics the optional topics can easily be can easily be

removed from the removed from the printed teacher’s printed teacher’s guides without guides without

damaging them.damaging them.


• WOW! covers sensitive topics in a way that is– customizable,– thorough, – accurate,– age appropriate, and– straightforward.

WOW! Teacher’s WOW! Teacher’s Guides Make Guides Make

Presenting the Presenting the Material A SnapMaterial A Snap

WOW! Teacher’s WOW! Teacher’s Guides Make Guides Make

Presenting the Presenting the Material A SnapMaterial A Snap

In addition to lesson In addition to lesson plans, the teacher’s plans, the teacher’s guides also include…guides also include…• WOW Health Background

Information• Appendixes

WOW! Also Includes WOW! Also Includes ReproduciblesReproducibles

• Each teacher’s guide and corresponding CD-ROM includes the following…

Student handouts and Student handouts and forms for reinforcing forms for reinforcing

contentcontent

Parent involvement Parent involvement newslettersnewsletters

One for each of the six units—to reinforce key health and wellness concepts and share the information with students’ families, provided in English and Spanish

One poster per unit and One poster per unit and a Spanish translation of a Spanish translation of

eacheach

Spanish translations of Spanish translations of each student book with each student book with

the art included, the art included, including the series’ big including the series’ big

booksbooks

Spanish translations of Spanish translations of all reproducibles, all reproducibles, including parent including parent

involvement newsletters involvement newsletters and parent assessment and parent assessment

formsforms

• Pre- and post-Pre- and post-assessment forms for assessment forms for parents and teachersparents and teachers

• Links to Internet Links to Internet information sources, information sources, including the full School including the full School Health Index materials Health Index materials from the CDC (this from the CDC (this content is also repeated content is also repeated in its entirety on the in its entirety on the CD-ROM)CD-ROM)

Professional Professional DevelopmentDevelopment

• The authors of the WOW! Health Education series are available to provide dynamic, hands-on professional development for elementary classroom teachers, physical educations, and health education teachers on implementing the WOW! program, as well as other related issues.

• For more information or to schedule professional development for your school, contact the authors at (907) 233-8110 or e-mail [email protected].

WOW! Health WOW! Health Education Series Education Series Editorial BoardEditorial Board• Jeff Carpenter, MA

Health and Physical Education Olympia (Washington) School District

• Barbara A. Huscher, MLA, MEd, MA Violence Prevention and Sexuality Education Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools

• Keith LaVinePhysical Education Duval County (Florida) Public School System

• Marcy LaVineHealth EducationDuval County (Florida) Public School System

• Sharon Sterchy, MS, EdDHealth and Physical EducationAldine (Texas) Independent School District

Documents

World of Wellness Health Education Series. All this from one program? WOW! Promote health literacy by providing students with current, comprehensive health