Additional Resources & Suggestions for Health Teachers
Once you have created a basic Google site, the next step is to decide what your students should develop as part of their portfolio. There are as many different possibilities as there are Health teachers interested in using the technology.
Here are some ideas:
Dealing with Bullying Students could role play scenes and include video.
Eating Healthy Students can blog about choices they make & include reflection.
Blood Donation: Needs & Concerns Students can put data from local blood banks into a spreadsheet to analyze and understand the current situation.
Stress Management Students can complete an anonymous survey as a pre-cursor to class discussion and study of techniques.
Tobacco Students can create a “powerpoint” style game to present their information to classmates in an interactive and exciting way.
Community Resources for Abuse Victims Students can compile a list of online sites with active links to the actual resource along with a summary paragraph of the program and its resources.
Teen Suicide Students can create a “photo story” that addresses the elements defined by their teacher for the unit.
Drug Use Students can participate in a chain email where each student must add an additional fact about the drug in question before forwarding onto the next person in the list (review technique for test)
Mental Health Students can be divided and work together through a Googles group to prepare presentations on different illnesses
An experienced Health teacher can look through their own files and examine projects and lesson plans that have been successful in the past and then ask the question: Can this be accomplished effectively using one of the free Google Applications?
Warning: Don’t just use technology because you feel that you are supposed to use technology! Instead, think about what you want students to accomplish and then wisely pick the best way to reach the goal.
Another option is to look on the internet for postings of lesson plans and ideas that other Health teachers have successfully completed. Here are a few great lists to get you started:
Lesson plans for P.E. & Health written by teachers [[1]]
P.E. Central has a section specific to Health ideas [[2]]
TeAchnology looks to instruct students with technology so that they get an “A” [[3]]
Homepage: E-Portfolios for Health Education