Friday, October 3, 2008

Health and Welfare

Let's find resources for lessons on health and welfare for high school aged students in a Muslim context. Sub topics include the importance of healthy living, self-care, nutrition, sanitations and the role of women to manage a healthy family.

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4 comments:

Sandy and Bob said...

Debate Is Vegetarian healthy? http://www.youngveggie.org/Information/resources_for_teachers.html has resources to teach vegetarianism.

Sandy and Bob said...

Have students order a healthy meal from McDonalds. http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal/nutrition_facts.html has a chart to determine which selections are healthy. There is also an order form.

Sandy and Bob said...

http://www.fightbac.org/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,83/ has activity and fact sheets for different ages to teach how to fight bacteria.

Sandy and Bob said...

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/fig01.html Using the food pyramid Students can write what they normally eat in a day and count to see if they have too many or not enough servings. They can project what might be the ideal menu for one day.