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World of Wellness
Health Education Series
All this from one
program? WOW!
• Promote health literacy by providing
students with current,
comprehensive health education.
• Enhance your efforts to meet
standards for health, physical
education, and English language
arts.
• Address childhood obesity with a
strong emphasis on physical activity
and nutrition.
• Give children multicultural
connections that are real and
relevant throughout the curriculum.
Meet the Challenge of
Coordinated Health
Education in
Elementary School
Fun. Easy. Complete
•Each WOW! lesson is
presented in a fun story
format that keeps kids
engaged, while they
learn about health and
strengthen their abilities in
reading, writing, and
other cross-curricular
topics.
Fun. Easy. Complete
•Teach your students the
importance of leading
an active and healthy life
through conceptually
grounded, contextbased lessons.
Fun. Easy. Complete
•WOW! functions as a
group of kits—without the
cost of a kit!
How WOW! works
Each level of The World of Wellness Health
Education series consists of the following:
• a teacher’s guide
• a teacher’s resource CD-ROM
• a student book that corresponds to the
students’ levels
WOW! student books
make reading fun!
• The student books present the
information in a story format
that keeps kids interested.
WOW! student books
make reading fun!
• Throughout the student books
your students will also find
sidebars with factual and fun
information. These pieces of
information enhance the story
and can often be used as part
of the lessons.
WOW! student books
make reading fun!
WOW! student books
make reading fun!
WOW! student books
make reading fun!
WOW! Health Education
Teacher’s Guide
Each WOW! book contains these 6 units:
1. Safety, Injury Prevention, Personal
Health, and Physical Activity;
2. Nutrition Education;
3. Growth and Development, Body
Systems, Health Promotion, and
Disease Prevention;
4. Mental, Emotional, Family, and Social
Health;
5. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs;
and
6. Community, Consumer, and
Environmental Health.
WOW! Health Education
Teacher’s Guide
• Background information for
the content of each of these
six units is provided so that you
can become familiar with the
concepts you will be teaching
in the lessons.
WOW! Health Education
Teacher’s Guide
• In addition, each unit within
the teacher’s guide contains
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lesson plans,
teacher resources,
Web resources,
literature links, and
parent involvement newsletters.
• Much of this information is also
repeated on the CD-ROM
that’s included with each
teacher’s guide.
WOW! Optional
teaching materials help
you customize delivery
to meet local mandates
Optional Teaching
Materials
• The WOW! Health Education
series has several options to
make it easy for you to tailor
teaching materials to your local
mandates and needs.
Foremost, the main lesson
content teaches the topics
thoroughly and accurately
without touching on potentially
controversial topics.
Optional Teaching
Materials
• The teacher’s guides include a
separate Optional Materials section
for those districts and schools who
wish to share more information
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growth and development,
body systems,
health promotion,
disease prevention related to HIV and
AIDS,
– sexuality education, and
– substance abuse prevention.
NO optional topics are
mentioned in the
student books or big
books, and the optional
topics can easily be
removed from the
printed teacher’s
guides without
damaging them.
Optional Teaching
Materials
• WOW! covers sensitive topics in
a way that is
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customizable,
thorough,
accurate,
age appropriate, and
straightforward.
WOW! Teacher’s Guides
Make Presenting the
Material A Snap
WOW! Teacher’s Guides
Make Presenting the
Material A Snap
In addition to lesson
plans, the teacher’s
guides also include…
• WOW Health Background
Information
• Appendixes
WOW! Also Includes
Reproducibles
• Each teacher’s guide and
corresponding CD-ROM
includes the following…
Student handouts and forms
for reinforcing content
Parent involvement
newsletters
One for each of the six units—to reinforce key health
and wellness concepts and share the information
with students’ families, provided in English and
Spanish
One poster per unit and a
Spanish translation of each
Spanish translations of each
student book with the art
included, including the series’
big books
Spanish translations of all
reproducibles, including
parent involvement
newsletters and parent
assessment forms
• Pre- and post-assessment
forms for parents and
teachers
• Links to Internet information
sources, including the full
School Health Index
materials from the CDC (this
content is also repeated in
its entirety on the CD-ROM)
Professional
Development
• The authors of the WOW! Health
Education series are available to
provide dynamic, hands-on professional
development for elementary classroom
teachers, physical educations, and
health education teachers on
implementing the WOW! program, as
well as other related issues.
• For more information or to schedule
professional development for your
school, contact the authors at (907)
233-8110 or e-mail [email protected].
WOW! Health Education
Series Editorial Board
• Jeff Carpenter, MA
Health and Physical Education
Olympia (Washington) School District
• Barbara A. Huscher, MLA, MEd, MA
Violence Prevention and Sexuality Education
Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools
• Keith LaVine
Physical Education
Duval County (Florida) Public School System
• Marcy LaVine
Health Education
Duval County (Florida) Public School System
• Sharon Sterchy, MS, EdD
Health and Physical Education
Aldine (Texas) Independent School District