How to Make Homemade "Creative Teaching Aides" for Health Lessons
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom C/D
Start Date
16-5-2013
End Date
16-5-2013
Abstract
Creating homemade Outrageous Teaching Aids can add powerful teaching moments to any lesson. To help make meaningful connections to junior high students at Morgan Middle School during a 3-day Nutrition/Body Image unit, two aides were created. The first is a Sugar Board that helps students put into perspective the amount of sugar that is found in typical beverages they consume. The visual of mounds of sugar next to each beverage helps individuals to “Rethink Their Drink”. For the body image piece of the unit, a Life Size Barbie cardboard model was created based on the proportions of the actual Barbie doll. The life size version yields a six foot tall female that would have to stand on all fours to support the disproportionate body parts. The visual helps students to be aware of the media ploys that are utilized to sell a product.
Recommended Citation
Diimmel, Amber, "How to Make Homemade "Creative Teaching Aides" for Health Lessons" (2013). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 64.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2013/posters/64
Poster Number
2
Additional Mentoring Department
Physical Education, School and Public Health
How to Make Homemade "Creative Teaching Aides" for Health Lessons
SURC Ballroom C/D
Creating homemade Outrageous Teaching Aids can add powerful teaching moments to any lesson. To help make meaningful connections to junior high students at Morgan Middle School during a 3-day Nutrition/Body Image unit, two aides were created. The first is a Sugar Board that helps students put into perspective the amount of sugar that is found in typical beverages they consume. The visual of mounds of sugar next to each beverage helps individuals to “Rethink Their Drink”. For the body image piece of the unit, a Life Size Barbie cardboard model was created based on the proportions of the actual Barbie doll. The life size version yields a six foot tall female that would have to stand on all fours to support the disproportionate body parts. The visual helps students to be aware of the media ploys that are utilized to sell a product.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Mark Perez