With an emphasis on environmental responsibility, the new Health: The Basics, Green Edition features compelling graphics and relatable content that bring health topics to life, keeping students hooked on learning and living well. Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of instructor and student support materials, this edition makes teaching and learning personal health easier than ever.
The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change. Proven pedagogical features carry over from previous editions, including the following: Chapter objectives summarize the main competencies students will gain from each chapter. The images accompanying the questions are repeated within the chapter, where answers can be found.
Assess Yourself boxes help students evaluate their health behaviors and consider possible changes while the new Your Plan for Change sections offer suggestions on how to effect positive behavior change. Skills for Behavior Change boxes provide strategies for making healthy changes.
Did You Know? Health in a Diverse World boxes expand discussion of health topics to diverse groups within the U. Health Headlines boxes highlight new discoveries and research in health-related areas.
Health Today boxes focus on potential health risks and safety issues relevant to college students. Consumer Health boxes focus on ways in which students can become better health consumers by applying critical thinking skills to health topics and products. A running glossary defines words on the page where students first encounter them. End-of-chapter sections let students immediately review what they have learned with chapter summaries, multiple choice review questions, discussion and reflection questions, health Web links, and reference lists.
A behavior change contract appears at the front of the book to support the behavior change program. The Test Bank contains questions per chapter. Health: The Basics, 13th Edition.
Description For courses in personal health. Preface Preface is available for download in PDF format. Tools for planning your course and engaging students NEW - Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules were written by instructors for instructors and are found in the Instructor Resources section. They help instructors efficiently make use of the available teaching tools for the toughest topics by providing lecture preparation, before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments.
Instructors can incorporate active learning into their lectures with the suggested activities,clicker questions, or Learning Catalytics questions. Seamlessly integrated videos, interactive self-assessments worksheets and other rich media.
Accessible screen-reader ready. Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode. Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search. Instructors can hide and move chapters creating a table of contents that meets their individual course coverage.
Learning Catalytics is a student response tool that uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking. NEW - Team names are no longer case sensitive. Help your students develop critical-thinking skills. Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy. Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to- peer learning. These activities show students the possible consequences of various choices they make today on their future health; these activities are linked out to Mastering from the book and made assignable in Mastering with follow-up questions.
Hallmark -Behavior Change Videos guide your students through the best tips and practices to put better decision making into action and review basic fitness concepts. These concise whiteboard-style videos help students with the steps of behavior change, covering topics such as setting SMART goals, identifying and overcoming barriers to change, planning realistic timelines, and more.
Additional videos review key fitness concepts such as determining target heart rate range for exercise.
All videos include assessment activities and are assignable in Mastering Health. UPDATED - Prebuilt Assignments with 20 Pre-lecture Reading Questions per chapter ensure that students come prepared for lecture by answering multiple-choice questions related to content within the text.
Assignable study plan items contain at least one multiple-choice question per Learning Outcome and wrong-answer feedback. Dynamic Study Modules enable students to study effectively on their own in an adaptive format. Students receive an initial set of questions with a unique answer format asking them to indicate their confidence level.
Self-Assessments with Gradebook Reporting enable students to write a self-reflection piece on their self-assessment or complete the self-assessment and have it automatically speak to the Gradebook. Self-assessments are available within Mastering Health, both as a PDF format with self-reflection piece and as a multi-part activity that speaks to your Gradebook. The Study Area is broken down into learning areas and includes videos, MP3s, practice quizzing, and much more.
About the book Cover health topics with a real-world focus NEW - Mindfulness Theme, including why this topic is so important to health, how to practice it, and potential current and long-range benefits, has been added as feature boxes as well as integrated throughout the narrative and signaled by a new mindfulness icon NEW - Mindfulness and You boxes focus on mindfulness research and applications in relation to high interest topics such as sleep, technostress, mental health, sexual dysfunction, etc.
NEW - Focus on Difference, Disparity and Health Equity chapter challenges students to think about issues of diversity and health equity, and the actions they can take as individuals and as a society to begin to remove barriers and promote access to health for all Chapter 1A. NEW - Statistics, research, and information on the latest health topics, issues, and trends, has been included. NEW - Full Chapter on Sleep now has more coverage and the most recent health findings on how sleep impacts our health.
Encourage critical thinking and behavior change Hallmark - A Behavior Change Contract for students to fill out is included at the back of the book, to help set them up for success.
With an emphasis on environmental responsibility, the new Health: The Basics, Green Edition features compelling graphics and relatable content that bring health topics to life, keeping you hooked on learning and living well. Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of student support materials, this edition makes learning personal health easier than ever.
The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package.
She has a Ph. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist. Becky is a highly involved, student-centered teacher and mentor for undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Although her main emphasis is in the area of Public Health Promotion and Health Education, she teaches a wide range of students from many disciplines on the Oregon State campus.
In addition to her varied teaching responsibilities, Becky is an active researcher in the area of health behaviors and behavior change including studies with a focus on motivating behavior change, the use of social support in facilitating behavior change, the use of community supports to assist individuals in changing high-risk behaviors, and the role of stress in health and disease. Find the course content, tools and apps you need for any subject Get started. Now available on.
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