GENERAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND OTHER DRUGS PERSONAL AND CONSUMER HEALTH NUTRITION AND FITNESS FIRST AID AND INJURY PREVENTION FAMILY LIFE AND HUMAN SEXUALITY DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

GENERAL HEALTH

 •  EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE HEALTHY AND SAFE--   Have students bring in a picture of themselves or take group shots of the students and display pictures on the bulletin board.

 •  HEALTH HISTORY IS HER STORY TOO!--    Use pictures and facts of woman in the health field.  (Students could research the facts and display them on the bulletin board.)

 •  WELLNESS TREE--    Create a wellness tree and an illness tree.  Have students decorate the tree with ornaments to represent the concept of wellness vs. illness.  Use related health terms on the roots of the trees. You may want to select a goal area and change the ornaments as you change the goal area.  You could also use an artificial tree and a dead tree to have a three dimensional  display in her classroom.  Tie ornaments into   the goal area that the students were studying.  For example when teaching nutrition and fitness use a jump rope for garland on the wellness tree.  The ornaments on the tree could be cut outs of apples and feet with student responses on them about what they will do to have a healthy diet and to incorporate fitness into their daily routines.

 •  HIT A HOMERUN IN HEALTH--   Design a baseball diamond.  On baseballs around the diamond write such terms as positive attitude, respect and cooperation.

 •  “COMING TOGETHER IS A BEGINNING; KEEPING TOGETHER IS  PROGRESS, WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS” - HENRY FORD

   Draw on bulletin board paper a large number to represent each class period that you teach. (For example if you teach periods 1,2,3,4,8, and 9, draw these numbers.)  Cut out these numbers and display them on a large bulletin board or the   wall.  Have students bring in pictures or a symbol of something that represents them and have students attach it on the number of their class period.

 •  GOOD HEALTH IS MORE THAN GOOD LUCK--  Have students draw health messages on shamrocks.

 •  SCORE POINTS FOR GOOD HEALTH--  Have students draw or write health tips on basketballs.

 •  BUTTON UP FOR GOOD HEALTH--  Display buttons with health messages or have students make buttons with health messages.

 •  CHEER FOR GOOD HEALTH--  Using  stencils of a megaphone (Staff Development Center), write health messages.
 

 •  “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”

 •  A healthy today, a healthy tomorrow!

 •  What is Your Health Worth To You?--  Display health posters and pictures of money.

 •  Stand Out From The Crowd--   Cut outs from Staff Development Center of people. Label each: drugs, crime, alcohol, abuse, tobacco, gangs violence guns.

 •  Read the Facts!--  Display seven goal areas of M.S.D.E. Health Education Framework. Display related pamphlets next to each goal area.

MENTAL HEALTH

 •  KEYS TO DECISION MAKING--  Display stencils of keys with the steps of the decision making model labeled on    them.

 •  A STRIKE AGAINST STRESS--  Have students work in a group to discuss stress.  Distribute a cut out of a bowling    ball and a bowling pin to each group of students.  On the bowling pin have students write causes of stress.  On the bowling ball have students write ways to reduce or cope with stress.

 •  IF YOU CAN’T SAY NO SAY HELP--  Display pictures of telephones labeled with community resource numbers.

 •  IT IS ONLY THROUGH CHANGE THAT WE GROW--  Display a tree with leaves using fall colors.

TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND OTHER DRUGS

 •  7 WARNING SIGNS OF LUNG CANCER--   Under the title list the names of seven tobacco companies or Cigarette brands.  If  you have the “Seven Warning Signs of Cancer” poster from the American Cancer Society you may also want to display it on the bulletin board.

 •  BREATHING AREA:  NO SMOKING PLEASE--  Display student work of anti-smoking messages.

 • THE REAL REASON DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT--  Display pictures of dinosaurs smoking.  (Master copies of dinosaurs pictures are available in the health education office.)

 •  ALCOHOL DISSOLVES THE FAMILY--  Display a picture of a bottle with liquid coming out over the word family.

 •  MY FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS - DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE--  Display student hand prints using a variety of colored paints.  Have students sign their handprints.  (You may want to do this activity for Red Ribbon Week.)

 •  A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS--  Display pictures of drunk driving accidents.

 •  MAKE AN IMPRESSION SAY NO TO DRUGS--  For Red Ribbon Week have students paint their hands red and then place their hand print on a banner.  Students write their signature next to their hand print.   (You  could also title the banner, “A Show of Hands of Students Who Are Drug Free at    _______________ (name of school)"

 •  “WE MUST PUSH HOPE IN OUR BRAIN - NOT DOPE IN OUR VEINS.”  - Rev. Jesse Jackson

 •  HELP PUT AN END TO DRUGS--
  Display  a road signs with the following messages:
   a.  Stop sign with message, “Do your part to stop drugs.”
   b.  One way sign with message, “One way to a healthy life - don’t use drugs.”
   c.  Dead end sign with message, “If you use drugs, you may come to a dead end.”
   d.  Yield sign with message, “Don’t yield to peer pressure.  Walk away  from drugs.”
   e.  Rough road sign with message, “Rough road ahead if you use drugs.”
   f.  Curve sigh with message, “Alcohol will throw you a  curve.”

PERSONAL AND CONSUMER HEALTH

 •   GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF WELLNESS--   Display five gift bags representing each of the five dimensions of wellness.  Inside each gift bag are items (ie. magazines, cards, pictures) that are reflective of the dimension of wellness labeled on the outside of the bag.

NUTRITION AND FITNESS

  •   LET’S DO LUNCH--   Use a bulletin board border of foods.  Display a poster of the food pyramid as well  as brown bags with pictures of food coming out of the bag.  (You could use food models from the Dairy Council or pictures from Delicious Decisions Kit.)

 •  MY NUTRITION AND FITNESS PLAN--  Cut out an apple and foot stencil for each student.  On the apple have the students write or draw what they could do to decrease or maintain fat in their diet.  On the foot have students write or draw what they could do to increase physical activity each day.  The students’ apples and feet can then be displayed on a bulletin board.  This idea could be used as a closure activity to a lesson to assess what students learned during the lesson.

 •  GREASY’S DINER--  Make a large diner type sign that says “Greasy’s Diner.”  Under the sign in large letters write “another sign of heart disease.’ On small letters you may want to write “A high-fat, high cholesterol diet can increase your risk of heart disease.  So place your order as though your life depended on it.”

 •  FAT ATTACK TARGET--  Draw three concentric circles.  Label the inside circle “no fat,” the next circle “Some Fat” and the outer circle “Most Fat”.  Have students bring in pictures of foods and place them in the appropriate place on the target based on the fat content in the food.

 •  DON’T BE A JUNK COLLECTOR--  Display containers of junk food carton falling out of a trash can.

FIRST AID AND INJURY PREVENTION

 •  PROTECT YOUR DREAMS!  BUCKLE UP!

 •  I - M SAFE (design like a bumper sticker)   (The click does the trick:  buckle up!)

FAMILY LIFE AND HUMAN SEXUALITY

 •  PARENTAL PEARLS OF WISDOM--  Draw a large clam on the bulletin board.   At your family life parent orientation  meeting distribute to each parent a white piece of paper in the shape of a circle.  Have the parents write a “pearl of wisdom” regarding teen sexuality on their piece of paper and then display the “pearls” on the bulletin board.  Have students read and respond to parent’s responses.

DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

 •  A BREAKTHROUGH IN AIDS PREVENTION--  In the center of the bulletin board, have paper torn open as if something is breaking through.  Behind the paper in large letters write the word abstinence.

 •  HIV/AIDS... GET THE FACTS--  Use red bulletin board paper and a black border.  Display AIDS prevention posters   on the bulletin board.  Sponge paint ribbons  and hearts on the bulletin board around the posters.  You can cut a shape of a ribbon and a heart from old sponges for the sponge painting.

 •  KNOWLEDGE IS THE BEST PROTECTION AGAINST HIV--  Display pamphlets or fact sheets about HIV/AIDS.

 •  YOUR LIFE.  YOUR CHOICE.  STOP AIDS--  (Display a picture of a stop sign)

 •  AIDS - IT’S NOT REVERSIBLE

 •  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR YOUR HEART LATELY?--   Trace pictures of  heart cartoons from Channing Bete booklet showing heart healthy actions such as exercising,eating low fat foods, dealing with stress in a healthy  manner, etc.

 •  CARDIAC ARREST--  Display a picture of a police officer running after a human heart.  A master copy of this is available in the health education office.

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