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Planet Health

Planet Health is a complete curriculum that helps academic, physical education, and health education teachers guide middle school students in these areas:

• Learning about nutrition and physical activity while building skills in language arts, math, science, and social studies.
• Understanding how health behaviors are interrelated.
• Choosing healthy foods, increasing physical activity, and limiting TV and other screen time.

The second edition of Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity offers an innovative approach to teaching health education. This new edition includes an all-new CD-ROM with plenty of reproducible worksheets, parent information and newsletters, school health resources, and other teacher resource materials. Like the popular first edition, Planet Health provides

• 35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits that promote healthy nutrition and activity;
• materials and instructions to implement Power Down, a two-week campaign to reduce television and other media viewing time, which you can launch in the classroom or school-wide; and
• FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels.

Principal Investigator: Steven Gortmaker, PhD
Funders: NICHD; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; University Gift
Funding Dates: 1995-1999; 1999-2003; 2003-Present