Table 2 Contents of the textbook and the teachers’ guide
Health Choices Book Learning to think carefully about treatments A health science book for primary school children | Teachers’ Guide |
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Introduction • Lesson 1: Health, treatments and effects of treatments John and Julie learn about CLAIMS about treatments • Lesson 2: Someone’s experience using a treatment • Lesson 3: Other bad bases for claims about treatments (part 1) • Lesson 4: Other bad bases for claims about treatments (part 2) John and Julie learn about COMPARISONS of treatments • Lesson 5: Comparisons of treatments • Lesson 6: Fair comparisons of treatments • Lesson 7: Big-enough fair comparisons of treatments John and Julie learn about CHOICES about treatments • Lesson 8: Advantages and disadvantages of a treatment Review • Lesson 9: Review of what is most important to remember from this book | The teacher’s guide includes an introduction to the project and the resources, and the following for each lesson, in addition to the embedded chapter from the textbook: • The objective of the lesson • A lesson preparation plan • A lesson plan • A list of materials that the teacher and children will need • A synopsis of the story • Keywords in the chapter • Review questions to ask the children after reading the story • Extra examples for illustrating the concepts • Background about examples used in the story • Teacher instructions for the classroom activity • Answers and explanations for the activity • Answers and explanations for the exercises • Background information, examples and keyword definitions for teachers |