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Introducing the

World of WellnessHealth Education Series!

All this from one program? WOW!• Promote health literacy by providing students with current, comprehensive health

education.• Enhance your efforts to meet standards for health, physical education, and English

language arts.• Address childhood obesity with a strong emphasis on physical activity and nutrition.• Give children multicultural connections that are real and relevant throughout the

curriculum.

HUMAN KINETICSThe Information Leader in Physical Activity

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Human Kinetics recognizes that health education may be challenging to fit into your busy schedule. That is why we developed the World of Wellness Health Education series (WOW!):

• With WOW! you can deliver top-quality health education within the limited hours of the school day, promote health literacy, help meet the mandates of No Child Left Behind legislation, and enhance your efforts to achieve the objectives of the overall school curriculum that you work so hard to implement.

• WOW! is designed to develop strong and compelling links between what students should know and what they should be able to do in the areas of reading and writing.

• With multicultural sidebars and its diverse cast of characters, WOW! embraces ethnic and cultural diversity.

• Finally—but no less importantly—WOW! emphasizes the importance of physical activity and nutrition throughout the health education strands.

Through careful design and execution, a coordinated approach, and consideration for real students and teachers in real school settings, WOW! not only helps you meet the challenge, but does so in a way that appeals to kids of all ages.

Meet the Challenge of ComprehensiveHealth Education in Elementary School

Fun. Easy. Complete.The World of Wellness Health Education series enables you to teach your students the importance of leading an active and healthy life through conceptually grounded, context-based lessons. What’s even more exciting is that while your students are learning, they’ll become acquainted with a very special group of friends who will take them on a wellness journey throughout the school year. Ruby, Cody, T.J., Sydney, and others will help your students learn about health while strengthening their abilities in reading, writing, and other cross-curricular topics.

WOW! functions as a group of kits—without the cost of kits! Ancillaries other publishers might make you pay extra for are included with the teacher’s guides for each level of the WOW! series

at a very affordable price. Plus, few supplies are need for delivering the dynamic lessons found in WOW!, and the few little things you might need for activities or demonstrations are inexpensive and easily found in a school or discount store. That means that you can deliver WOW! content expertly, smoothly, and affordably with very little prep time!

Introducing Cody, Ruby, Sydney, and T.J.

These images, and the others throughout the brochure, are found in the WOW! student texts.


Coordinated School Health Connections

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Today’s child needs an updated, multifaceted approach in order to achieve health literacy, or the ability to make choices that will enhance personal health and well-being now and in the future. For many years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have promoted the key to children’s health and well-being through their Coordinated School Health Model. This model encompasses eight interactive areas:

1. Health education2. Physical education3. Health services4. Nutrition services5. Counseling, psychological, and social

services6. Healthy school environment7. Health promotion for staff 8. Family and community involvement

WOW! Delivers Coordinated School HealthWith concern rapidly growing about childhood obesity, inactivity, and other health risks such as type 2 diabetes, states and municipalities are now responding by passing laws requiring coordinated school health. The WOW! Health Education series meets these needs by providing the four components that are most frequently required:

1. Health education core content meeting the relevant national standards

2. Physical education helping students meet the national standards

3. Parent involvement newsletters provided per unit and per grade level, in both English and Spanish 4. Nutrition education and services for students and parents alike.

Professional development opportunities are available through the authors to support each essential component.

The CDC’s Coordinated School Health Model

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This Is How WOW! Works

Each level of The World of Wellness Health Education series consists of the following:

• a teacher’s guide• a teacher’s resource CD-ROM• a student book (available in paperback

and hardback) that corresponds to the students’ levels

For kindergarten students, the student book is a big book, a large colorful book for the teacher to read to the group; first- through fifth-grade students have their own books. In addition, an abridged first-grade student book is available in big book format.

Color CodingAcross the series, kindergarten through fifth grade, WOW! uses a color-coded system to denote grade levels. This allows you the additional flexibility of using a lower level to meet the needs of students with academic challenges or a higher level to challenge gifted students.

In today’s world of tight budgets and increasing demands on school resources, rest assured that the WOW! student books are not intended to be used as workbooks. Rather, they include extra heavy paper and are meant to last multiple years while still being cost-effective. This complies with the directives of most school districts not to purchase student consumables.

WOW! offers flexibility and easily adapts to your students’ levels.

Intended Level Color Teacher’s Guide CD-ROM Student Text Big Book

Kindergarten Red

1st grade Orange

2nd grade Yellow

3rd grade Green

4th grade Blue

5th grade Purple

Orange Level: Big Book, Student Book, Teacher’s Guide and CD-ROM


WOW! Student Books Make Reading Fun! Your students will be introduced to an entire school year of health and wellness education topics while taking a memorable journey with Ruby, T.J., Cody, Sydney, and others. The student books present the information in a story format that keeps kids interested.

The WOW! series offers flexibility through its student books. Material from the student book can be read out loud in a large group, independently by each student, or in small groups or learning teams.

Each level of the student book is divided into six units that correspond with the lesson plans and background information from the teacher’s guide (see pages 8–11). The book is further broken down into 36 lessons. The class reads each numbered lesson before you introduce the matching lesson from the teacher’s guide.

Reading to Learn Lesson by LessonThe lessons in the student book introduce the material in an engaging story format that promotes reading skills while piquing students’ interest. Throughout the student books your students will also find sidebars with factual and fun information. These pieces of information enhance the story and can usually be used as part of the lessons. The number and variety of sidebars increase with each grade level. Together, these sidebars enhance the overall depth of the series and make learning more fun and interesting for both reluctant and enthusiastic learners.

Nature fact sidebars relate to the story line and provide solid connections to the elementary science curriculum.

Health sidebars, some including kid-friendly medical art, are based on the content background in the teacher’s guide and can be used for teaching specific health facts.

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Physical activity sidebars are placed throughout the student books to enhance the kinesthetic elements in the series.

Riddles appear as humorous additions to the story text.


Multicultural sidebars embrace ethnic diversity and are interesting and informative observations about diverse cultures that are relevant to the lesson.

Substance Abuse Prevention education is also included.

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WOW! Health Education Teacher’s GuideThe WOW! series presents the following 10 strands of health education to promote health literacy:

1. Injury prevention and safety2. Personal health3. Nutrition4. Human growth and development5. Health promotion and disease prevention6. Mental and emotional health7. Family and social health8. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs9. Community and consumer health10. Environmental health

These 10 strands have been integrated into thefollowing six units:

1. Safety, Injury Prevention, Personal Health, and Physical Activity

2. Nutrition Education 3. Growth and Development, Body Systems,

Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention 4. Mental, Emotional, Family, and Social Health;5. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs 6. Community, Consumer, and Environmental Health

Background information for the content of each of these six units is provided so that you can become familiar with the concepts you will be teaching in the lessons. In addition to the background information on health, each unit within the teacher’s guide contains

• lesson plans, • teacher resources, • Web resources, • literature links, and • parent involvement newsletters.

Much of this information is also repeated on the CD-ROM that’s included with each teacher’s guide. More on the teacher’s guide and CD-ROM appears on the following pages.

The WOW! series is more than just the books, teacher’s guides, and CD-ROMs. The WOW! Web site, at www.WOWHealth.org, is a valuable resource for teachers and parents. It keeps the WOW! series up to date with the latest information, provides current links to related Web sites, lists of books that support the WOW! content, and additional learning activities and worksheets.


WOW! Optional Teaching Materials Help You Customize Delivery to Meet Local Mandates

The WOW! Health Education series has several options to make it easy for you to tailor teaching materials to your local mandates and needs. Foremost, the main lesson content teaches the topics thoroughly and accurately without touching on potentially controversial topics. The teacher’s guides include a separate Optional Materials section for those districts and schools who wish to share more information about

• growth and development, • body systems, • health promotion, • disease prevention related to HIV and AIDS, • sexuality education, and • substance abuse prevention.

Optional Materials by GradeKindergarten Through Third Grade: Optional Health Connections

These materials are provided in teacher’s guides only, under the Optional Materials tab. They briefly outline additional related comments that could be made in addition to the main lesson. For example, in lesson 23 of the yellow level (second grade), Germs, Germs, Germs, the optional materials provide the following additional comment:

You may wish to add a comment such as, “Knowing how to avoid spreading germs [pathogens] is the beginning of learning how to prevent more serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS.”

Fourth and Fifth Grade Optional Components

The fourth and fifth grade teacher’s guides include these components:• Complete discussion guides with booklets of optional student information and simple but accurate

medical art• Additional optional background information for teachers

Only the fifth grade teacher’s guide includes these components:• Complete lesson plans and reproducible text (which does not appear in the student book). These additional

pages have the same characters as in the fifth grade student book with black-and-white art for easy photocopying.• Sexuality education in an easy-to-use discussion guide format (fifth grade teacher’s guide only).

NO optional topics are mentioned in the student books or big books, and the optional topics can easily be removed from the printed teacher’s guides without damaging them.

WOW! covers sensitive topics in a way that is• customizable,• thorough, • accurate,• age appropriate, and• straightforward.

No optional material is included or cross-referenced in the student books, and the optional student materials allow district or school administrators to easily keep or remove printed optional materials before distributing the series.

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The WOW! Teacher’s Guide Makes Presenting the Materials a Snap

Complete lesson plans tell you what you’ll need and guide you through the lesson from start to finish, including a fun movement-oriented activity. The lesson plans are provided in a convenient 3-ring binder that makes organization easy. Included with each guide is a CD-ROM that contains reproducibles, parent involvement newsletters, posters, and parent and teacher pre- and post-assessment forms; Spanish translations of reproducibles, parent involvement newsletters, the full-color student book with the art included, and posters; and links to helpful internet resources.

WOW! Lesson PlansThe teacher’s guide includes 36 complete lesson plans divided into six units that correspond with the lessons and units in the student book.

WOW! Vocabulary WordsThe WOW! Health Education series introduces new vocabulary words in each teacher’s guide lesson, words that are key to understanding the material. These words are presented in the context of a sentence to allow students to use prior knowledge and experience to comprehend the words naturally.

Now WOW! ’EmBefore the main lesson activity in the teacher’s guide is a list of lead-up questions that use Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives.

Get Ready to WOW! ’Em Each lesson includes a list of the materials you will need. Instructional resources, such as worksheets, teaching resources, and transparency templates, are included in this teacher’s guide.

Students first read the corresponding pages of the student text.

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In addition to lesson plans, the teacher’s guides also include...

WOW! Health Background InformationWOW! health background information is included in the teacher’s guide (for teachers only) for the six units in WOW! student books. Each unit provides you with a foundation of information about the key health concepts covered in this series.

Each unit in this guide identifies Web resources that can supplement or enhance your health instruction. After the Web resources you will find a list of literature resources that present health information appropriate for each unit. These resources can be incorporated into the lessons; they can also be purchased for your school library as an extension to this health education series. WOW!

AppendixesIn addition, the appendixes in the teacher’s guide contain other information you’ll find useful, including material for school staff on worksite wellness and school nutrition connections.

Wrap It Up!A compelling closing discussion or activity reinforces the content presented. Assessment Options

Clear and effective strategies guide you in assessing your students’ health education knowledge and skills.

ModificationsWhen appropriate, lesson modifications serve both as time-savers and adaptations for students with special needs, particularly students with learning differences.

Don’t Forget the Kinesthetic Classroom!An example of a quick cross-curricular physical activity is provided at the end of each lesson.

Lead ’Em Through Language ArtsSequenced student activities cover the health topic using an integrated English language arts model.

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WOW! also includes reproduciblesEach teacher’s guide and corresponding CD-ROM includes the following:• Student handouts and forms for reinforcing content and a Spanish translation of each• Parent involvement newsletters—one for each of the six units—to reinforce key health and wellness concepts and share

the information with students’ families, provided in English and Spanish• One poster per unit and a Spanish translation of each• Pre- and post-assessment forms for parents and teachers• Spanish translations of each student book with full-color art included, including the series’ big books• Spanish translations of all reproducibles, including parent involvement newsletters and parent assessment forms• Links to Internet information sources, including the full School Health Index materials from the CDC (this content is also

repeated in its entirety on the CD-ROM)

Sample posters from Blue level (Fourth Grade)


These resources are easy to choose from: You can tailor your teaching to the needs of individual students or local school. Just print them out and they’re ready to use.

Sample parent involvement newsletters, Green level (Third Grade)

Sample reproducibles from the CD-ROM included in English and Spanish with the Green Level WOW! Teacher’s Guide

Sample of Orange level (First Grade) student book pages translated into Spanish

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Susan Koonce, MEd, has more than 20 years of teaching experience ranging from preschool to adult education. Her primary teaching emphasis is in working with elementary children with learning disabilities. Sue earned her undergraduate degree in special education from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and has a master’s degree in special education from the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Sue is currently a special education teacher in the Anchorage School District. She is the coauthor of When Cody Became a Mouse Potato, the first children’s book sponsored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Tammy Green, MPH, is the Section Chief for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for the Alaska Division of Public Health. Tammy oversees and provides leadership to 12 programs including Obesity Prevention, Physical Activity, Nutrition, Diabetes Prevention and School Health. Prior to taking over as Section Chief , Tammy worked for the Alaska Department of Health as the school health program manager, a position in which she has collaborated with the Alaska Department of Education to increase coordinated school health programs throughout the state to deliver services and training to school districts and teachers. Tammy was recently invited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) to speak at their annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) conference. Under Tammy’s guidance, Alaska became the first state to collect statewide weighted YRBS data using active parental consent. Tammy received her undergraduate degree in health and physical education from the University of Northern Colorado and her master’s of public health (MPH), with an emphasis in health education and promotion, from Loma Linda University in southern California.

Bonnie Nygard, MEd, is an associate dean of academic affairs for the Community and Technical College at the University of Alaska at Anchorage (UAA). Before she held this position, Bonnie was a faculty member and coordinator of the physical education and recreation department at UAA for more than 15 years. Bonnie’s undergraduate degree is in physical education (K–12), and she earned her master’s degree in adult education, with an emphasis in exercise science, from the University of Alaska at Anchorage. She is the coauthor of the Innovative Fitness Connections secondary physical fitness curriculum and resource package, The Ultimate Guide of One-Minute Workouts, Making the Fitness Connection, and When Cody Became a Mouse Potato, the first children’s book sponsored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

About the Authors

Professional DevelopmentThe authors of the WOW! Health Education series are available to provide dynamic, hands-on professional development for elementary classroom teachers, physical educations, and health education teachers on implementing the WOW! program, as well as other related issues. For more information or to schedule professional development for your school, contact the authors at (907) 233-8110 or e-mail [email protected].

WOW! Health Education series Editorial Board

Jeff Carpenter, MAHealth and Physical Education Olympia (Washington) School District

Barbara A. Huscher, MLA, MEd, MA Violence Prevention and Sexuality EducationBoston (Massachusetts) Public Schools

Keith LaVinePhysical Education Duval County (Florida) Public School System

Marcy LaVineHealth EducationDuval County (Florida) Public School System

Sharon Sterchy, MS, EdDHealth and Physical EducationAldine (Texas) Independent School District


WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Red Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 192 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5758-5 • $69.00 ($94.95 CDN)

WOW! Ruby Discovers the World of Wellness: Big Book—Red Level2005 • 17” x 22.5” Paperback • 40 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5759-2 • $79.00 ($108.95 CDN)

WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Orange Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 272 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5755-4 • $89.00 ($122.95 CDN)

WOW! Ruby Learns About the World of Wellness: Student Book—Orange Level2005 • Hardback • 88 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-6228-2 • $19.00 ($25.95 CDN)

WOW! Ruby Learns About the World of Wellness: Big Book—Orange Level2005 • 17” x 22.5” Paperback • 40 pp (Abridged orange level student book) ISBN 978-0-7360-5757-8 • $79.00 ($108.95 CDN)

WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Yellow Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 280 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5126-2 • $89.00 ($122.95 CDN)

WOW! Ruby Explores the World of Wellness: Student Book—Yellow Level2005 • Hardback • 88 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-6229-9 • $19.00 ($25.95 CDN)

WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Green Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 288 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5127-9 • $89.00 ($122.95 CDN)

WOW! Cody Investigates the World of Wellness: Student Book—Green Level2005 • Hardback • 88 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-6230-5 • $19.00 ($25.95 CDN)

WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Blue Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 328 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5128-6 • $89.00 ($122.95 CDN)

WOW! T.J.’s Adventures in the World of Wellness: Student Book—Blue Level2005 • Hardback • 88 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-6231-2 • $19.00 ($25.95 CDN)

WOW! Health Education Teacher’s Guide—Purple Level2005 • 3-ring binder & CD-ROM • 392 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-5129-3 • $89.00 ($122.95 CDN)

WOW! Sydney Travels Through the World of Wellness: Student Book—Purple Level2005 • Hardback • 88 pp • ISBN 978-0-7360-6232-9 • $19.00 ($25.95 CDN)

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Intended Level: Second Grade

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Intended Level: Fourth Grade

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Contact your K–12 sales representative for more information:

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Fax: 217-351-2674or visit www.WOWHealth.org

In Canada, contact Jake Rondot, 1-800-465-7301, or e-mail [email protected].

FREE ANCILLARY POLICY: When a school or district adopts a minimum of 25 copies of the World of Wellness Health Education Series student texts for the Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, or Purple levels, each teacher teaching the course may receive a free copy of the Teacher’s Guide that corresponds to the same color(s)/or grade level(s) as the student texts ordered.NOTE: The Teacher’s Guide for the Red Level (Kindergarten), ISBN 0-7360-5758-7 and the Big Books for Red (K) and Orange (1st grade) levels are not offered free with adoption.

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