Glencoe Health © 2007Chapter 1:
Living A Healthy LifeChapter 1 Parent Letter and ActivitiesDear Parent or Guardian, As part of the academic curriculum, your teen is starting a new course on
health. Three elements of health will be covered: physical, mental, and emotional,
as well as social health.
These three health elements are interconnected and make up the health triangle.
The purpose of this course is to help your child gain the knowledge and skills
needed to create and maintain
a balanced health triangle. In this first chapter, you teen will explore the following topics: - Health and Wellness.
- Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle.
- Behavior and Reducing Health Risks.
Please reinforce our classroom work by discussing with your son or daughter
one or more
of the following topics: Ask your teen to explain the health triangle. Discuss
how everyday behaviors affect the different sides of the health triangle. Encourage
your teen to generate health-related questions she or he hopes to have answered
during this course. Read the health textbook’s table of contents and
discuss where these issues might be addressed. Discuss resources in your community
that teens can use to research health-related topics. If you include the Internet
in these resources, be sure to ask your teen about various strategies for evaluating
the reliability of information he or she obtains there. I hope that this course will prove to be fun and informative for you and your
teen. Thank
you for supporting our classroom work. Feel free to contact me if you wish
to discuss your
teen’s health education. Sincerely, Health Teacher |