Growing Healthy® Curriculum Guides –
One Per Individual Classroom Teacher

Grade-specific curriculum guides for grades K-6 describe the activities and orchestrate the use of corresponding student reproducibles and multimedia peripheral materials, the hallmark of Growing Healthy®. Teachers appreciate the convenience of the easily reproduced student worksheets. A comprehensive glossary provides an alphabetical listing of all the health education terms presented throughout the curriculum.

Curriculum Guides Include:

• Grade Level Objectives
• Assessment Activities Reference
• Daily Lesson Objectives
• Lesson-Relevant Vocabulary Reference
• Teacher Preparations
• Corresponding Student Worksheets
• Things-to-Do-Before Checklist
• Suggested Daily Lesson Plans
• Essential Daily Teaching Materials Reference

Ready-to use classroom materials to complement the variety of instructional strategies introduced in the comprehensive Growing Healthy® curriculum.
• Charts and Graphs
• Classroom Informational Posters
• Role Play Instruction Cards
• Cooperative Learning Activity Directions
• Learning Station Direction Cards

The resource-rich Growing Healthy® curriculum utilizes a variety of peripheral materials to engage and captivate students. At each grade level, a diverse assortment of books, posters, videos, games, and other multimedia materials provides the interactive stimulus to capture the imagination and provoke student participation.

Growing Healthy® is a comprehensive program focusing on the physical, emotional, and social dimensions
of young people's health. At each grade level, Growing Healthy® addresses 10 major content areas in approximately 50 lessons per grade level per year.
• Disease Prevention and Control
• Nutrition
• Substance Use and Abuse
• Personal Health
• Mental and Emotional Health
• Consumer Health
• Growth and Development
• Safety and First Aid
• Family Life and Health
• Community and Environmental Health

Life skills are those abilities and positive behaviors that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Students learn and continually practice life skills in Growing Healthy®.
• Goal Setting
• Effective Communication
• Empathy
• Decision Making
• Coping with Emotions
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Creative Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Coping with Stress
• Critical Thinking
• Self-Awareness

"The National Center for Health Education is pioneering the use of convergent technology to prepare professionals to effectively teach
health education."

John G. Flores, PhD
Executive Director,
United States Distance Learning Association

Teacher training is an equal partner, with careful curriculum choice, in the development of a successful comprehensive school health education program.
When teachers participate in the required training, they have the expertise and confidence to take the program into their classrooms.

The National Center for Health Education partners with eschool Online® to build interactive multimedia programming that helps educators use the proven-effective, K-6 school health education curriculum, Growing Healthy®.
This innovative professional development program melds video and Web content to create an engaging interactive experience.

• Delivers training anytime, anywhere
• Saves time and money by reducing teachers' out-of-class time
• Focuses on grade-specific activities
• Models best practices
• Provides an ongoing resource
• Promotes effective and consistent use of the curriculum

• National Health Education Standards
• National Science Education Standards
• Primary Literacy Standards
• Standards for Social Studies
• Standards for English Language Arts

• The Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) includes Growing Healthy® in its review of social and emotional learning programs.
• The 2nd Annual President's Report on School Safety identified Growing Healthy® as an effective program for violence prevention.
• The Positive Youth Development in the United States Report said Growing Healthy® is an effective school program in more than half of the constructs it examined.
• The Making the Grade Report praised Growing Healthy® for clear lesson plans, good background materials, and strong emphasis on cooperative learning centers with numerous opportunities for skills practice.

• Choosing the Tools: A Review of Selected K-12 Health Education Curricula concluded that Growing Healthy® meets the criteria for curriculum that has been assessed, evaluated, and institutionalized in a variety of settings throughout the United States.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York – Years of Promise: A Comprehensive Learning Strategy for America's Children endorses Growing Healthy® as a strategy for improving the health of children.

To assist school health professionals in obtaining funding, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Web site includes a database of information about funding sources that support school health programs. This database can be accessed by clicking on the Funding heading on CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health's home page. The School Health Finance Project (SHFP) database provides information on federal categorical funding, federal block grant funding, and private sector funding. The database also contains specific examples of how states use federal funds to support school health programs.

Click here to download the quotation form for a comprehensive program implemention proposal for Growing Healthy in your school/district.