Health+Activities

or New & Innovative (NI)** ||
 * = **Content Area** ||= **Curriculum Standard** ||= **Technology** ||= **Description** ||= **Supporting Resource** ||= **Tried & True (TT)
 * Health || **HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARD 8** - Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health. || Blogs || Instruct each student to create a letter or e-mail to his/her local legislature or representative advocating that action be taken regarding a current health issue that he/she deems important. Students post a summary of their proposed advocacy action and a copy of their letter/e-mail to their blog. Fellow students are invited to comment on the proposed advocacy action and offer suggestions for improvement or awareness of the health issue or ways to implement community change. || Blogging allows for synthesis of content and helps sustain student engagement in the health education classroom setting. Blogging requires students to analyze, apply, synthesize, and evaluate, reaching the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Burke, S. & Oomen, J. (2008). That's blog worthy. //American Journal of Health Education, 39//, 362–364. || NI – This is new and innovative since blogs are relatively new and it seems critical to motivate and engage the "Web 2.0 generation" by integrating technology in the classroom. ||



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