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General skills-based health education tools
Health across the Curriculum
Pointers to the different ways in which health priorities can be reinforced in different subjects, for instance, in science, mathematics, social studies and language, either in all classes or as a term or half year theme.
Quality Checklist for Selecting Skills-based Health Education Materials
Checklist to be used to select new materials or adapt existing materials for use in skills-based health education programmes.
Active Methods for Teaching and Learning
Nine active methods for teaching and learning about health, that teachers willing to try out new things can use to help their pupils think for themselves.
Children for Health: a Methodology for Learning by Doing
This tool describes one example of the “children for health” methodology, which addresses the topic of diarrhoea.
Examples of Educational Strategies to Promote Environmental Health
This tool describes the contribution that skills-based health education brings to efforts aimed at creating a health-supportive physical environment at schools or in communities. In addition, it suggests educational themes and strategies that could form the basis of a curriculum unit to promote environmental health.
Characteristics of Successful Health Education Programmes to Prevent HIV/AIDS
Based on reviews of some 113 evaluated programmes, this tool describes what successful HIV prevention education programmes seem to have in common.
Increasing Knowledge and Awareness about Gender
This tool provides 28 sample exercises that teachers/facilitators can use to help young people better understand what gender is and how it affects their lives. The activities aim to achieve the following learning objectives: 1) Improve understanding of what gender means, and of the difference between gender and sex; 2) Increase young people’s awareness of gender roles and attitudes; 3) Help young people to think about how gender roles and stereotypes are created; and 4) Explore the impact of gender on young people’s lives, especially their ideas about sex and relationships and expectations about their sexual behaviour. Two Fact Sheets, entitled “The Rights of Young People” and “Sex and Sexuality”, are provided to support the activities.
Food and nutrition skills-based health education tools
Enjoy a Variety of Foods: Essential Nutrients for Healthy Nutrition
This tool provides useful information about vital nutrients, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, and water, all of which could help teachers to prepare lessons for students aged 5-16 years of age.
Protect the Quality and Safety of Your Food
This tool provides useful information about protecting the quality and safety of food. Schoolteachers could use this information when teaching primary and secondary school pupils. It could also be used by school administrators to improve and maintain food standards in a school canteen or cafeteria.
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Nutrition and Growth
This tool contains the essential information that families and individuals need to know about nutrition and growth.
Basic Principles for the Preparation of Safe Food for Infants and Young Children
This tool sets out ten recommendations that provide the basic principles for the preparation of safe food for infants and young children. The observation of these principles by mothers or other caregivers will contribute to the prevention of diarrhoea and associated malnutrition.
Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA)
This tool sets out some inexpensive and effective solutions for IDA designed by the World Health Organization
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD)
This tool sets out WHO’s response to this problem along with its goal, which is the worldwide elimination of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD).
Age-Appropriate Education Strategies to Promote Healthy Eating
This tool provides information about environmental factors, personal characteristics and behavioural capabilities that have a positive influence on young people’s eating choices at different stages of development.
Helminths and hygiene skills-based health education tools
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Hygiene
This tool contains the essential information that individuals, families and communities need to know about hygiene.
Facts about Intestinal Worms
After defining the most common kinds of intestinal worms, the problems they cause, symptoms, transmission of infection and possible treatments, this tool provides a number of recommendations for prevention of such infections.
Facts about Schistosomiasis
After defining the two types of Schistosomiasis, the problems they cause, symptoms, transmission of infection and possible treatments, this tool provides a number of recommendations for prevention of this particular type of infection.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices to Reduce Helminth Infection
This tool provides information about the knowledge, attitudes and practices (skills) that are likely to lead young people (and adults) to adopt behaviours that reduce the spread of helminth infections.
Life Cycle of Schistosoma haematobium
This tool describes the life cycle of the parasite (Schistosoma haematobium) which causes schistosomiasis in humans.
HIV/AIDS skills-based health education tools
>Basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS/STI
Information on Sexual Health, HIV and AIDS
This tool provides basic information about puberty, sex and sexual relationships. It is intended to be used for lesson planning by teachers and others to present the facts to children at upper primary and lower secondary age.
Basic questions and answers about HIV, AIDS and STI
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents on basic questions and answers about HIV, AIDS and STI.
Looking into AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on testing how much students have learned so far about AIDS.
What do HIV, AIDS and STI mean?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on familiarizing students with the meaning of HIV, AIDS and STI.
How someone becomes HIV infected
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the three ways in which HIV can be transmitted.
You can’t get AIDS by …
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the ways in which people can’t get AIDS.
What do you believe?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on what students know about ways in which HIV can and cannot be transmitted.
What would you do?
This tool is a classroom activity for focusing on describing risk situations to students in a realistic and effective way.
What is your risk?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on evaluating risk behaviours.
Are you at risk?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on evaluating risk behaviours.
Protect yourself against AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for focusing on safer choices of behaviour that will reduce students'risks to HIV.
“Dear Doctor Sue”
This tool is a classroom activity giving students an opportunity to role-play a health professional.
Which is safer ?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping the students decide upon the best ways to protect themselves.
What happens with HIV infection?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on providing information students need about what happens with HIV infection.
How do you know if you have HIV/AIDS?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on informing students how they can tell whether someone has AIDS.
Testing for HIV
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on informing students how they can tell whether someone has AIDS.
What do you know about testing for HIV?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping students remember what they have learned about testing.
AIDS help: Who? Where?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on who can help in respect of HIV/AIDS/STI and where they can be found.
You be the doctor
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on drug use and its relationship to HIV and AIDS.
Are you a responsible person?
This tool is a classroom test for adolescents on basic knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STI.
What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about AIDS
This tool contains the essential information that families and individuals need to protect themselves from becoming infected with HIV.
>Responsible behaviour: delaying sex
Reasons to say “NO”
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on evaluating risk behaviours. informing students about the reasons for delaying sex.
To delay or not to delay?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the reasons for having sex or not having sex.
“Lines” and more “lines”
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on how to respond to the typical arguments used to pressure individuals to have sex.
Guidelines: How to delay sex
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the help students need to decide to delay sex.
What to do?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on using the guidelines for delaying sex in real life situations.
Affection without sex?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents discussing alternative activities for those students who want to delay sex.
What’s next?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on knowing how to establish limits, and knowing when to express them.
Am I assertive?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on verbal and non-verbal aspects of assertive, passive and aggressive behaviour.
Who’s assertive?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on recognizing assertive, passive and aggressive behaviour in real-life situations.
Assertive messages
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on practicing the steps towards being assertive by means of behavioural rehearsal.
Your assertive message (class activity)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents where the whole class prepares an assertive message together.
Your assertive message (individual)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents giving the students an opportunity to develop and practice their own assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (demonstration)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (class activity)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (individual)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
You decide
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping students change outdated concepts about delaying sex.
Dealing with threats and violence
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on learning how to avoid or deal with pressures and threats to have sex.
Being assertive every day
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on parent participation in the student’s assertive messages action plan.
Teaching Life Skills to Prevent the Transmission of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
This tool contains a set of classroom activities for students, the purpose of which is to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to prevent the transmission of HIV and STI.
>Responsible behaviour: protected sex
Prevention of HIV Infection
This tool sets out a series of prevention measures in respect of personal sex practices and injecting drug use.
Facts about STIs
This tool provides the reader with facts about some of the most common sexually transmitted infections, how they are transmitted, their symptoms, who is at risk from these infections and their treatment before setting out a number of recommendations for the prevention of each one of them.
Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV/AIDS:
Teaching Modules
This tool contains a sample set of five educational modules designed to help teachers inform students aged 15-19 about HIV and AIDS and Voluntary Counselling and Testing.
The condom
This tool is a class room activity focusing on informing students about condoms so that they can use them effectively.
Arguments people use against using condoms
This tool is a class room activity focusing on how to deal with a partner who is negative about condom use.
How to use a condom
This tool is a classroom activity containing two activities on the proper use of a condom.
No to unprotected sex (demonstration)
This tool is a classroom demonstration on “Responsible behaviour: protected sex” containing three activities focusing on how to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom.
>Care and support for those living with HIV and/or affected by HIV/AIDS
Adopting a Constructive Attitude towards People Infected with or Affected by HIV and AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for pre-adolescents, designed to help students learn how to express empathy towards people – especially their peers – who are infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Expressing One’s Feelings and Opinions
This tool is a classroom activity designed to help pre-adolescents acquire skills to prevent HIV Infection and related discrimination.
What’s in a Word?
This tool reviews language used when speaking about HIV and AIDS which is incorrect or prejudicial, and suggests the correct, respective alternatives. It is appropriate for use in a lesson on HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
Who discriminates?
This tool is a class room activity focusing on raising the awareness of young people to discrimination and to how it is expressed.
The story of two communities
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on the importance of understanding what it is like to be discriminated against.
Why compassion?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on helping students reach an understanding the importance of compassion.
What could you do?
This is a classroom activity on focusing on ways to be compassionate towards someone living with HIV, including those with AIDS and when and how to help.
How to’s of care giving
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on providing the students with information on how to care for someone living with HIV, including those with AIDS.
How to keep yourself safe
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on precautions to observe when caring for someone with AIDS.
What do you know?
This tool is a class room activity containing two student tests to determine what they know about care giving.
Support for responsible behaviour
This tool is a class room activity focusing on ways of being supportive towards someone who has made healthy decisions.
Compassion, tolerance and support
This tool is a classroom activity on “Care and support for people with HIV/AIDS”, focusing on continuing to show support outside the classroom.
Violence skills-based health education tools
Examining Beliefs about Conflict and Violence
This tool is a classroom-based learning activity designed to help learners understand that certain beliefs and attitudes may increase or decrease the risk of violence. Teachers may use this activity for primary and secondary grades.
Resolving Conflicts in Problem Situations
This tool is designed as a classroom activity to help learners understand the advantages of using assertive solutions in problem situations. By participating in this activity, learners will be able to learn how to compare assertive, passive, and aggressive behaviours and differentiate between them. It is suitable for students in primary and middle school classes.
United Nations Resolution 217 A (III) proclaiming a Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This tool sets out the preamble and 30 Articles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that recognizes that the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Teachers could use this tool in their classes to inform their students about human rights.
Examples of Grade-Specific Objectives for Skills-based Violence Prevention Education
This tool provides information that educational planners, curriculum developers and teachers can use to develop and implement violence prevention activities at school. It discusses the knowledge, attitudes and skills that young people need to reduce their involvement with violence, whether in the role of the aggressor, victim or bystander.
Examples of Educational Interventions for Violence Prevention
This tool describes a variety of educational interventions that have been used to help young people develop knowledge, attitudes and, especially, skills to reduce their involvement in violent situations, whether as victims, perpetrators or witnesses (bystanders).
United Nations Resolution 53/243: Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
This tool sets out the articles contained in United Nations Resolution 53/243 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 6 October 1999 to declare the principles, and describe a programme, of action for efforts to promote and strengthen a global culture of peace in the new millennium.
United Nations Resolution 53/25 proclaiming an International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001–2010)
This tool sets out the articles contained in United Nations Resolution 53/25 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 19 November 1998 proclaiming the period 2001–2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco skills-based health education tools
Resource Information for Teachers on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
This tool provides resource information and fact sheets for teachers on six commonly used drugs: alcohol; tobacco; marijuana; cocaine and crack; inhalants; and steroids.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
This tool gives the answers to frequently asked questions about the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), its implications and process and contains the full text of the Convention. Teachers could find this a useful information support when preparing lessons for secondary school children.
Guiding Principles for School-based Drug Education
After defining the terms “guiding principle”, “drug” and “school-based drug education”, this tool sets out the ten main guiding principles that can provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy-makers and school administrators could make decisions about the design and delivery of effective school-based drug prevention programmes.
Creating Health-Promoting, Tobacco-Free Schools
A lesson plan designed for teachers working with primary and secondary school students, this tool is intended to help in creating a health-promoting school with a tobacco-free policy by teaching students to develop an advocacy plan to contribute to tobacco control efforts in their schools.
Effects of Different Substances on Our Health
This tool provides information suitable for school children aged 9–15 about the most commonly used substances and their effects on children’s health.
Using Sport for Drug Abuse Prevention: Sample Athletes’ Code of Conduct
This tool provides a sample “Code of Conduct” for athletes. It is a suggestion of the values, attitudes and practices that lead to respect and fair play among competitors, which the authors describe as the true “spirit of sport”.
Selected Mood-Altering Drugs and their Effects on Athletic Performance
This tool provides basic information about the possible effects of commonly abused drugs on athletic performance.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can be help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Tobacco Prevention
This tool is intended to help curriculum planners and teachers develop an effective tobacco prevention education programme. It begins with a discussion of the need to use a variety of interventions to effectively address the multiple factors that influence an individual’s choice to use, abstain from using or stop using tobacco products.
Malaria skills-based health education tools
Learning about Malaria at Primary School
This tool offers guidance on the ways in which primary school children can contribute to national malaria control programmes. It sets out the main objectives for children’s understanding and action, along with detailed topic and session plans for lessons on understanding and preventing malaria.
Telling Stories to Introduce Lessons about Malaria
This tool contains a simple story for use when teaching children in lower primary classes about malaria. It also offers tips for the teacher on how to tell the story and what questions might be raised afterwards.
More About Prevention and Treatment of Malaria
The purpose of this tool is to update information about the prevention and treatment of malaria. It sets out the basic information, describes the malaria cycle, treatments and methods of prevention.
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Malaria
This tool sets out key messages and supporting information about malaria, its early treatment and prevention.
Malaria Facts
This tool sets out the basic facts about malaria: what it is, where it occurs, how common it is, how is it contracted, symptoms and treatment, as well as recommendations on how to prevent infection. |
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General skills-based health education tools
Health across the Curriculum
Pointers to the different ways in which health priorities can be reinforced in different subjects, for instance, in science, mathematics, social studies and language, either in all classes or as a term or half year theme.
Quality Checklist for Selecting Skills-based Health Education Materials
Checklist to be used to select new materials or adapt existing materials for use in skills-based health education programmes.
Active Methods for Teaching and Learning
Nine active methods for teaching and learning about health, that teachers willing to try out new things can use to help their pupils think for themselves.
Children for Health: a Methodology for Learning by Doing
This tool describes one example of the “children for health” methodology, which addresses the topic of diarrhoea.
Examples of Educational Strategies to Promote Environmental Health
This tool describes the contribution that skills-based health education brings to efforts aimed at creating a health-supportive physical environment at schools or in communities. In addition, it suggests educational themes and strategies that could form the basis of a curriculum unit to promote environmental health.
Characteristics of Successful Health Education Programmes to Prevent HIV/AIDS
Based on reviews of some 113 evaluated programmes, this tool describes what successful HIV prevention education programmes seem to have in common.
Increasing Knowledge and Awareness about Gender
This tool provides 28 sample exercises that teachers/facilitators can use to help young people better understand what gender is and how it affects their lives. The activities aim to achieve the following learning objectives: 1) Improve understanding of what gender means, and of the difference between gender and sex; 2) Increase young people’s awareness of gender roles and attitudes; 3) Help young people to think about how gender roles and stereotypes are created; and 4) Explore the impact of gender on young people’s lives, especially their ideas about sex and relationships and expectations about their sexual behaviour. Two Fact Sheets, entitled “The Rights of Young People” and “Sex and Sexuality”, are provided to support the activities.
Food and nutrition skills-based health education tools
Enjoy a Variety of Foods: Essential Nutrients for Healthy Nutrition
This tool provides useful information about vital nutrients, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, and water, all of which could help teachers to prepare lessons for students aged 5-16 years of age.
Protect the Quality and Safety of Your Food
This tool provides useful information about protecting the quality and safety of food. Schoolteachers could use this information when teaching primary and secondary school pupils. It could also be used by school administrators to improve and maintain food standards in a school canteen or cafeteria.
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Nutrition and Growth
This tool contains the essential information that families and individuals need to know about nutrition and growth.
Basic Principles for the Preparation of Safe Food for Infants and Young Children
This tool sets out ten recommendations that provide the basic principles for the preparation of safe food for infants and young children. The observation of these principles by mothers or other caregivers will contribute to the prevention of diarrhoea and associated malnutrition.
Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA)
This tool sets out some inexpensive and effective solutions for IDA designed by the World Health Organization
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD)
This tool sets out WHO’s response to this problem along with its goal, which is the worldwide elimination of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD).
Age-Appropriate Education Strategies to Promote Healthy Eating
This tool provides information about environmental factors, personal characteristics and behavioural capabilities that have a positive influence on young people’s eating choices at different stages of development.
Helminths and hygiene skills-based health education tools
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Hygiene
This tool contains the essential information that individuals, families and communities need to know about hygiene.
Facts about Intestinal Worms
After defining the most common kinds of intestinal worms, the problems they cause, symptoms, transmission of infection and possible treatments, this tool provides a number of recommendations for prevention of such infections.
Facts about Schistosomiasis
After defining the two types of Schistosomiasis, the problems they cause, symptoms, transmission of infection and possible treatments, this tool provides a number of recommendations for prevention of this particular type of infection.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices to Reduce Helminth Infection
This tool provides information about the knowledge, attitudes and practices (skills) that are likely to lead young people (and adults) to adopt behaviours that reduce the spread of helminth infections.
Life Cycle of Schistosoma haematobium
This tool describes the life cycle of the parasite (Schistosoma haematobium) which causes schistosomiasis in humans.
HIV/AIDS skills-based health education tools
>Basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS/STI
Information on Sexual Health, HIV and AIDS
This tool provides basic information about puberty, sex and sexual relationships. It is intended to be used for lesson planning by teachers and others to present the facts to children at upper primary and lower secondary age.
Basic questions and answers about HIV, AIDS and STI
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents on basic questions and answers about HIV, AIDS and STI.
Looking into AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on testing how much students have learned so far about AIDS.
What do HIV, AIDS and STI mean?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on familiarizing students with the meaning of HIV, AIDS and STI.
How someone becomes HIV infected
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the three ways in which HIV can be transmitted.
You can’t get AIDS by …
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the ways in which people can’t get AIDS.
What do you believe?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on what students know about ways in which HIV can and cannot be transmitted.
What would you do?
This tool is a classroom activity for focusing on describing risk situations to students in a realistic and effective way.
What is your risk?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on evaluating risk behaviours.
Are you at risk?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on evaluating risk behaviours.
Protect yourself against AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for focusing on safer choices of behaviour that will reduce students'risks to HIV.
“Dear Doctor Sue”
This tool is a classroom activity giving students an opportunity to role-play a health professional.
Which is safer ?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping the students decide upon the best ways to protect themselves.
What happens with HIV infection?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on providing information students need about what happens with HIV infection.
How do you know if you have HIV/AIDS?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on informing students how they can tell whether someone has AIDS.
Testing for HIV
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on informing students how they can tell whether someone has AIDS.
What do you know about testing for HIV?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping students remember what they have learned about testing.
AIDS help: Who? Where?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on who can help in respect of HIV/AIDS/STI and where they can be found.
You be the doctor
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on drug use and its relationship to HIV and AIDS.
Are you a responsible person?
This tool is a classroom test for adolescents on basic knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STI.
What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about AIDS
This tool contains the essential information that families and individuals need to protect themselves from becoming infected with HIV.
>Responsible behaviour: delaying sex
Reasons to say “NO”
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on evaluating risk behaviours. informing students about the reasons for delaying sex.
To delay or not to delay?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the reasons for having sex or not having sex.
“Lines” and more “lines”
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on how to respond to the typical arguments used to pressure individuals to have sex.
Guidelines: How to delay sex
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on the help students need to decide to delay sex.
What to do?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on using the guidelines for delaying sex in real life situations.
Affection without sex?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents discussing alternative activities for those students who want to delay sex.
What’s next?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on knowing how to establish limits, and knowing when to express them.
Am I assertive?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on verbal and non-verbal aspects of assertive, passive and aggressive behaviour.
Who’s assertive?
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on recognizing assertive, passive and aggressive behaviour in real-life situations.
Assertive messages
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on practicing the steps towards being assertive by means of behavioural rehearsal.
Your assertive message (class activity)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents where the whole class prepares an assertive message together.
Your assertive message (individual)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents giving the students an opportunity to develop and practice their own assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (demonstration)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (class activity)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
Responding to persuasion (individual)
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents demonstrating the techniques of using an assertive message.
You decide
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on helping students change outdated concepts about delaying sex.
Dealing with threats and violence
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on learning how to avoid or deal with pressures and threats to have sex.
Being assertive every day
This tool is a classroom activity for adolescents focusing on parent participation in the student’s assertive messages action plan.
Teaching Life Skills to Prevent the Transmission of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
This tool contains a set of classroom activities for students, the purpose of which is to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to prevent the transmission of HIV and STI.
>Responsible behaviour: protected sex
Prevention of HIV Infection
This tool sets out a series of prevention measures in respect of personal sex practices and injecting drug use.
Facts about STIs
This tool provides the reader with facts about some of the most common sexually transmitted infections, how they are transmitted, their symptoms, who is at risk from these infections and their treatment before setting out a number of recommendations for the prevention of each one of them.
Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV/AIDS:
Teaching Modules
This tool contains a sample set of five educational modules designed to help teachers inform students aged 15-19 about HIV and AIDS and Voluntary Counselling and Testing.
The condom
This tool is a class room activity focusing on informing students about condoms so that they can use them effectively.
Arguments people use against using condoms
This tool is a class room activity focusing on how to deal with a partner who is negative about condom use.
How to use a condom
This tool is a classroom activity containing two activities on the proper use of a condom.
No to unprotected sex (demonstration)
This tool is a classroom demonstration on “Responsible behaviour: protected sex” containing three activities focusing on how to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom.
>Care and support for those living with HIV and/or affected by HIV/AIDS
Adopting a Constructive Attitude towards People Infected with or Affected by HIV and AIDS
This tool is a classroom activity for pre-adolescents, designed to help students learn how to express empathy towards people – especially their peers – who are infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Expressing One’s Feelings and Opinions
This tool is a classroom activity designed to help pre-adolescents acquire skills to prevent HIV Infection and related discrimination.
What’s in a Word?
This tool reviews language used when speaking about HIV and AIDS which is incorrect or prejudicial, and suggests the correct, respective alternatives. It is appropriate for use in a lesson on HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
Who discriminates?
This tool is a class room activity focusing on raising the awareness of young people to discrimination and to how it is expressed.
The story of two communities
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on the importance of understanding what it is like to be discriminated against.
Why compassion?
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on helping students reach an understanding the importance of compassion.
What could you do?
This is a classroom activity on focusing on ways to be compassionate towards someone living with HIV, including those with AIDS and when and how to help.
How to’s of care giving
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on providing the students with information on how to care for someone living with HIV, including those with AIDS.
How to keep yourself safe
This tool is a classroom activity focusing on precautions to observe when caring for someone with AIDS.
What do you know?
This tool is a class room activity containing two student tests to determine what they know about care giving.
Support for responsible behaviour
This tool is a class room activity focusing on ways of being supportive towards someone who has made healthy decisions.
Compassion, tolerance and support
This tool is a classroom activity on “Care and support for people with HIV/AIDS”, focusing on continuing to show support outside the classroom.
Violence skills-based health education tools
Examining Beliefs about Conflict and Violence
This tool is a classroom-based learning activity designed to help learners understand that certain beliefs and attitudes may increase or decrease the risk of violence. Teachers may use this activity for primary and secondary grades.
Resolving Conflicts in Problem Situations
This tool is designed as a classroom activity to help learners understand the advantages of using assertive solutions in problem situations. By participating in this activity, learners will be able to learn how to compare assertive, passive, and aggressive behaviours and differentiate between them. It is suitable for students in primary and middle school classes.
United Nations Resolution 217 A (III) proclaiming a Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This tool sets out the preamble and 30 Articles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that recognizes that the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Teachers could use this tool in their classes to inform their students about human rights.
Examples of Grade-Specific Objectives for Skills-based Violence Prevention Education
This tool provides information that educational planners, curriculum developers and teachers can use to develop and implement violence prevention activities at school. It discusses the knowledge, attitudes and skills that young people need to reduce their involvement with violence, whether in the role of the aggressor, victim or bystander.
Examples of Educational Interventions for Violence Prevention
This tool describes a variety of educational interventions that have been used to help young people develop knowledge, attitudes and, especially, skills to reduce their involvement in violent situations, whether as victims, perpetrators or witnesses (bystanders).
United Nations Resolution 53/243: Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
This tool sets out the articles contained in United Nations Resolution 53/243 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 6 October 1999 to declare the principles, and describe a programme, of action for efforts to promote and strengthen a global culture of peace in the new millennium.
United Nations Resolution 53/25 proclaiming an International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001–2010)
This tool sets out the articles contained in United Nations Resolution 53/25 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 19 November 1998 proclaiming the period 2001–2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco skills-based health education tools
Resource Information for Teachers on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
This tool provides resource information and fact sheets for teachers on six commonly used drugs: alcohol; tobacco; marijuana; cocaine and crack; inhalants; and steroids.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
This tool gives the answers to frequently asked questions about the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), its implications and process and contains the full text of the Convention. Teachers could find this a useful information support when preparing lessons for secondary school children.
Guiding Principles for School-based Drug Education
After defining the terms “guiding principle”, “drug” and “school-based drug education”, this tool sets out the ten main guiding principles that can provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy-makers and school administrators could make decisions about the design and delivery of effective school-based drug prevention programmes.
Creating Health-Promoting, Tobacco-Free Schools
A lesson plan designed for teachers working with primary and secondary school students, this tool is intended to help in creating a health-promoting school with a tobacco-free policy by teaching students to develop an advocacy plan to contribute to tobacco control efforts in their schools.
Effects of Different Substances on Our Health
This tool provides information suitable for school children aged 9–15 about the most commonly used substances and their effects on children’s health.
Using Sport for Drug Abuse Prevention: Sample Athletes’ Code of Conduct
This tool provides a sample “Code of Conduct” for athletes. It is a suggestion of the values, attitudes and practices that lead to respect and fair play among competitors, which the authors describe as the true “spirit of sport”.
Selected Mood-Altering Drugs and their Effects on Athletic Performance
This tool provides basic information about the possible effects of commonly abused drugs on athletic performance.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can be help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Tobacco Prevention
This tool is intended to help curriculum planners and teachers develop an effective tobacco prevention education programme. It begins with a discussion of the need to use a variety of interventions to effectively address the multiple factors that influence an individual’s choice to use, abstain from using or stop using tobacco products.
Malaria skills-based health education tools
Learning about Malaria at Primary School
This tool offers guidance on the ways in which primary school children can contribute to national malaria control programmes. It sets out the main objectives for children’s understanding and action, along with detailed topic and session plans for lessons on understanding and preventing malaria.
Telling Stories to Introduce Lessons about Malaria
This tool contains a simple story for use when teaching children in lower primary classes about malaria. It also offers tips for the teacher on how to tell the story and what questions might be raised afterwards.
More About Prevention and Treatment of Malaria
The purpose of this tool is to update information about the prevention and treatment of malaria. It sets out the basic information, describes the malaria cycle, treatments and methods of prevention.
Facts for Life: What Every Family and Community has a Right to Know about Malaria
This tool sets out key messages and supporting information about malaria, its early treatment and prevention.
Malaria Facts
This tool sets out the basic facts about malaria: what it is, where it occurs, how common it is, how is it contracted, symptoms and treatment, as well as recommendations on how to prevent infection. |
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