Hi Everyone,
Here's a resource that we haven't mentioned for a while. It's got a ton of great stuff: core concepts to address, sample lesson plans, ideas for activities and field trips, and even a student blog. Take a look and let us know what pieces of this seem to be helpful to your work!
Health Savvy: A Flexible Framework For Enhancing Health Literacy Through Adult Education
Some background:
With funding from Missouri Foundation for Health and support from Health
Literacy Missouri and the Adult Education Section of the Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education, Parkway Area Adult Education and Literacy in
suburban St. Louis has developed a framework(not a curriculum) of resources to
contextualize health literacy into every level of ABE/ASE and ESL instruction.
All the best,
Julie
Comments
Hi Julie:
Wow, what a great resource. Thanks so much. One activity that I have thought about before but have not tried is titled, "Reading Ads." I wonder if others in the group have tried something like this. Here is how the activity is described in the resource:
Lesson title: Analyzing Health-Related Ads
Intended audience: ABE/ASE but usable by ESL
Health literacy topic area: health advertisements
Adult education skills addressed: analysis, persuasion (I would also say, speaking and listening)
Materials needed: health-related magazine ads, worksheet (available here: https://sites.google.com/site/pkwyael/Home/health-literacy-resources/judginginfo/lessonplans/reading-ads I needed to copy and paste the worksheet contents into a Word document.)
Teacher: "I tore out advertisements from magazines that were health related – such as sports drinks, prescriptions, food, cosmetics, etc. I passed out an ad to each student along with attached worksheet. They worked as a group with the students at their table to choose one ad between them and answer the questions on sheet together."
Student response: "They loved it! One guy at the end of class told me, “That group stuff was great! It really got us talking to each other and I liked that!"
Have you tried something like this?
Cynthia