Nonfiction Monday: World Health Day
Prepare for World Health Day on April 7 with this fiction/nonfiction book pair and activities for grades 3-5.
Facts First
Keep Your Cool! What You Should Know about Stress
by Sandy Donovan (Author)
and Jack Desrocher (Illustrator)
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Hardcover: 64 pages
Publisher: Lerner
In this new Health Zone book, students will learn what causes stress and how to reduce it.
Pair With
The London Eye Mystery
by Siobhan Dowd (Author)
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Talk about stress...Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim board the London Eye, but when the ride is over, Salim is no where to be found!
Activities...
The theme of this year's World Health Day is "Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies."
Use the CDC's Body and Mind classroom activities.
Have your students take the health quiz at the UN's CyberSchoolBus page.
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Nice books. We should really educate our children about stress as early as now to avoid further complications which will have a tremendous effect on their behavior.
Posted by: wow gold | March 30, 2009 at 07:56 PM