Support for School Health
Curricula
Coordinated
Approach to Child Health
CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is designed
to promote physical activity, healthy food choices, and
prevent tobacco use in elementary school aged children.
By teaching children that eating healthy and being
physically active every day can be fun, the CATCH Program
has proved that establishing healthy habits in childhood
can promote behavior change that carry into adulthood. The
CATCH Program focuses on coordinating four components: the
Eat Smart school nutrition program, K-5 Classroom curriculum,
a Physical Education program, and a Family program. The
Coordination of health messages between these four component
areas is critical to positively impact children's knowledge
and behavior. For over 10 years CATCH has guided schools,
families, and children in the process of being healthy.
CATCH, the largest school-based health promotion study in
the U.S., has demonstrated that behaviors such as eating
foods high in saturated fat and physical inactivity can
be changed.
Growing
Healthy
The National Center for Health Education’s (NCHE)
Growing Healthy, is America's first comprehensive school
health education curriculum, and is designed to provide
school health teachers with the tools they need to effectively
teach health education. This K-6 curriculum is designed
to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve
their health, enabling them to develop the skills and attitudes
necessary for health-related problem solving and informed
decision-making. Growing Healthy meets or exceeds the performance
indicators established for the National Health Education
Standards at all grade levels. In addition, Growing Healthy
utilizes opportunities to integrate health education into
other subject areas, allowing students to create, apply,
and use knowledge in many different situations. NCHE’s
Website also contains a wide variety of information
for youth, parents, and communities on how to become more
engaged in school health.
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