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Healthy Living series

Publisher: Christian Schools International
Review last updated: 2009		 Instant KeyPublishers InfoPricing

Healthy Living series

Public schools have created a diverse social agenda they now teach under "health." It includes the traditional topics of growth and development, nutrition, personal health, disease prevention, safety, and first aid. In addition we now find drug education, emotional/mental health, AIDS/HIV education, family issues (death and dying), human sexuality (beyond the basics at increasingly younger levels), decision making, social issues, and more.

I personally believe that the family is the appropriate arena for discussing many of these topics. However, many Christians disagree, and the Healthy Living series for grades K through 6 is an example of how Christian publishers adopt the public school system's goals. I have to say their treatment of these topics is definitely from a Christian viewpoint, and, of course, you are free to skip sections you feel are inappropriate.

With that preface, I know that some home educators are looking for a complete Christian health curriculum, and this is one of the most complete available if you want coverage of all of the aforementioned topics.

The curriculum is designed to be taught in the classroom, so lessons are presented by the teacher from the teacher guide and include many classroom activities. The teacher guides are spiral-bound with a hardback cover for ease of handling. They list preparation, needed materials, objectives, step-by-step lesson plans, and related activity ideas.

Full-color, illustrated, student books for grades 3 through 6 serve as texts for student reading. No student texts are available for grades K through 2.

Discussion questions are included at the end of each small section of information. Reproducible blackline masters at the back of the teacher guide are also used for various lessons. Many illustrations (picture and text) as well as directed discussions assume children are in a traditional classroom, which is a handicap for home educators. The student books for grades 3 through 6 can be used on their own, but you will be missing full development of the lessons and some helpful information found in the teacher guide.

Pricing

student texts $18.85 each

teacher guides$57.60 each


Instant Key

  • Learning Styles: perfect paul
    Suitable for: group or one-on-one
    Audience:     grades K-6
    Need for parent/teacher instruction:      high
    Prep time needed:     minimal
    Need for Teacher's Manual:  teacher's guide is essential
    Religious perspective: Protestant

Publisher's Info

  • Christian Schools International

    3350 East Paris Avenue S.E.
    Grand Rapids, MI 49512
    ( 800) 635-8288
    https://store.csionline.org/