Essential Web Resources for Health Educators
Interactive Teaching Resources
- GA Health GPS:
- Cobb Virtual Library: Encyclopedias, magazines, research articles, and multimedia at your fingertips.
- HealthTeacher: This is a great community that focuses on bringing community education to more people, and offers access to teaching resources.
- Glencoe Teen Health: 6-8 Free online resource
- Glencoe Health: 9-12 Free online resource
- Glencoe Health Podcasts:
- Georgia State University: Comprehensive health and safety web resources
- C.D.C. Healthy Youth
- Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: A great reference site from Discovery School on different health and fitness subjects.
- Kathy Schrock’s Assessment Resources:
- Rubistar: A rubric is "a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work"
- School Health Education Resources: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a helpful guide and resource for teachers who teach health related subjects.
- nettrecker.com : netTrekker is a leader in the organization and delivery of digital K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing education with highly effective technologies
- United Streaming: Georgia Public Broadcasting Resource
- Web Quest 1: A Web quest is an online, inquiry-based activity used to learn and apply new knowledge in a meaningful way.
Web Quest 2: Georgia State University web site…….. WOW!! - TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students
- Medtropolis: An interactive site exploring the brain, heart, skeleton, and digestive system.
- SMART Exchange: Lesson plans and resources for your SMART Board
- Promethean Planet: Created by teachers, for teachers, Promethean Planet is a unique teaching, sharing and support community—your place to connect, create, and change the classroom !
- Google Docs: Create your own DB from forms or create your own Web Log (BLOG)
- Google Tips and Tools:
- Google Squared:
- Google News Timeline:
- Doodle: Create your own poll or schedule.
- Edublogs: Edublogs has been hosting blogs and providing custom blogging platforms to individual teachers, school districts and hundreds of thousands of students.
- Typepad: A for-fee blog service. Your school/system may already subscribe to a blog platform
- Allatoona HS Sample Blog: South Cobb HS Sample Blog:
Barber MS Sample Blog: Durham MS Sample Blog:
Health Professional Organizations and Publications
Join a professional organization for helpful insight, support from a variety of professionals in different health careers.
- American Association for Health Education: Professional health educators can visit this site to learn more about education and join a professional organization.
- American Journal of Health Education: Learn what is happening in the world of health education, and get tips on better teaching.
- PBS Teachers: Find good ideas, references and other information on teaching, including some helpful tips on teaching health and science.
- The Teacher’s Corner: Provides some helpful lesson plan resources for those who teach health and nutrition.
Teacher and Health Professional Forums
Talk to health professionals, educators and others involved in health and wellness. Find valuable insight on issues you are facing, and lend a hand to others as well.
- ProTeacher Community: Forums and message boards surrounding different aspects of education, and different grades — including health education.
- Teaching Forum: This great forum is from the U.K., and offers some great insight from other teachers interested in helping each other be more effective.
- The Education Forum: A great forum for teachers involved in a number of subjects, including health.
- HealthBoards: Forums and message boards on a number of health related issues. Also includes helpful hints for health educators.
- ehealth forum: A great place to get questions answered about different health subjects.