Kids Health Education: Sample Module Featuring Dr. Beat
Here’s What’s Inside Module 1: Meet Dr. Beat!
Unit 1: Meet Dr. Beat!
Lessons:
- What is the Heart?
- The Heart is a Muscle and Conduction System
- Healthy Foods for the Heart
Unit 2: Go With The Flow!
Lessons:
- Open and Closed Circulatory Systems
- Human Circulatory System Basics
Unit 3: All About Blood!
Lessons:
- Cells
- Blood
- Elements of Blood and Their Function
Unit 4: Pumpin’ the Blood!
Lessons:
- Blood Pressure Basics
- Heart Rate and Pulse
- Eating Right for Blood Health
Unit 5: Step It Up!
Lessons:
- Heart Health Awareness
- Fighting Diabetes and Anemia
- Early Prevention Tips
- Comprehensive Teacher Background Materials – gives you a solid knowledge base organized by multidisciplinary links.
- Core Lesson Plans – gives all the basics for a 20-30 minute session.
- Enrichment Activities – can be added to this lesson or taught throughout the year. These tools emphasize the lesson’s message and experience. Optional activity sessions can take as much time as your schedule allows and is also based on the type of activity and the number of students in your class.
- Handouts with Parental Sign-Off and Answer Keys - use all or some of them for this lesson or distribute them throughout the year.
- Appendices – offers additional teaching tools including a resource guide, supporting charts, wall photos, and extra questions to use during the lesson or throughout the year.
- Positive Presentation Style – We use a positive approach designed to give all students self-confidence.
Each Module Includes:
By the End of Module 1, Students Will:
- Understand what the heart and blood do for their bodies
- Explain the basics of blood pressure and pulse in simple terms
- Recognize how food and movement help protect the heart
- Identify early warning signs of heart disease, diabetes, and anemia at a kid-friendly level
“We are thrilled that The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara County is utilizing the Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children in their after school program. your curriculum fills an important need in the fitness and health education of our students that is vital to their long-term health and success in life.”
Allison White
Community Outreach Coordinator
The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara County
“Thank you for bringing Hip Hop Healthy Heart Curriculum to the Kyrene School District. Our Elementary Physical Education Program has begun to integrate the whole child concepts in with our yearly physical education curriculum. The Healthy Heart lessons are aligned with the Arizona State Standards that serve as the foundation of our program. Hands down, it is a thorough and age appropriate curriculum that breaks down concepts in such small parts that we are able to pull out small parts of a module and use them during transitions between our physical engagement activities.”
Deb Striker
Elementary Physical Education Lead
Kyrene School District
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