While working on my dissertation, this book was very helpful to me. It also help me to set up a violence program at my school. This book gave me some very good tips th use.

This textbook is my textbook for a course I am taking in college. I am in school to be a health teacher, and gym teacher. The book is layed out nicely for an elementary school teacher where you only teach 1, maybe 2 grades. In the back of the book, there are teaching stragies that help teach the content chapters. My problem with that is the layout. Instead of listing the content chapter for example..."Nutrition" then listing lessons for grades 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.... they chose to list Grade 1--Nutrition, Personal Health, Growth and Development, Consumer Health, etc. Grade 2--Nutrition, Personal Health, Growth and Development, Consumer Health...etc

This book is certainly thick with as many pages it has. I really enjoyed the book. I did not know as much about health until I read this book. This book provides sample lesson plans, goals, explanations of certain diseases,and an interesting behavior contract. This contract allows the student to create a contract to improve his/her health usually in a month's time frame.

Also, this book provides national standards with national contact phone numbers and addresses. This is great because since education now is really standards based, a teacher can reference this book for standars in creating health-centered or health-enriched lesson plans across the curriculum.

I would have liked to see it a litlle more user-friendly as far as navigating it. Also, would consider as a refernce book for educators and not a book for mild reading.

As a instructor of preservice classroom teachers, I love using this book. The organization is sequencial and the amount of information just right. My students liked the book as well and most plan to use it as a reference as they start teaching. Great job Meeks, Heit, and Page.