QUALITY SCHOOL HEALTH
QSH Resources

Free Resources

• School Health Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
  These vibrant announcements promote the importance of school health in the development of active healthy learners. Feel free to print and distribute them around your school and community or to publish them in newsletters and school resources.
  o PSA-1 (PDF, 90 KB)
  o PSA-2 (PDF, 136 KB)
  o PSA-3 (PDF, 126 KB)
  
• QSH Overview Presentation (PDF, 310 KB) – This slide presentation provides a brief description of the Quality School Health initiative. It is ideal for users tasked with presenting information on Comprehensive School Health/Health Promoting Schools.

• QSH Information Brochure (PDF, 887 KB) – This ready-to-print brochure provides the Who, What, Where, Why, and When of a Quality School Health program. It includes eight steps to getting started with QSH.

• What is Comprehensive School Health (CSH)? (PDF, 207 KB)
  This informative document defines Comprehensive School Health and gives practical advice for making the link between health and learning.

• Always Changing - Is a puberty education program for grades 5 & 6 that is endorsed by CAHPERD. It is available at no cost due to the generous support of Always and Tampax.

• Vibrant FACES – Is a physical activity and self-esteem program for grade 7 & 8 girls that is endorsed by CAHPERD. It is available at no cost due to the generous support of Always and Tampax.

Member Resources

• QSH Clipboard
  The Clipboard is CAHPERD’s popular teaching tips publication that provides ready to implement lesson plans and activity ideas. The Clipboard is published in two different themes: Quality School Health and Physical Education and Intramurals.
  
  View the Quality School Health Clipboard sample –Health Promoting Classrooms

• Physical and Health Education Journal
  Published quarterly, the PHE Journal is CAHPERD’s signature periodical, offering leading-edge articles to professionals.

  • Special Issue on Healthy Active Schools, Vol 65, No 1, March 1999 (No longer in print, click here to download.)

  • Special Issue on Quality School Health, Vol 70, No. 2, Spring 2004
    (Available for purchase through www.excelway.ca)

Excelway.ca - CAHPERD’s Online Bookstore

For more great physical education, health, recreation, teacher support resources, visit www.excelway.ca

• Eat Well and Keep Moving
  This complete resource includes everything you need to teach students about nutrition and fitness in a classroom setting or to launch an effective school wide program.

• Healthy Bodies- Grade One to Five
  The units are grade-specific from Grade One to Five, with five lessons at each grade level addressing topics ranging from the senses, nutrition, body systems, puberty and injury prevention.

• Planet Health - An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity
  The innovative curriculum was developed by the Harvard School of Public Health and implemented in field trials by teachers and kids. Four simple health themes were integrated into physical education, language arts, math, science, and social studies classes in keeping with Massachusetts curriculum standards.

• Wellness: A Question of Balance
  This is a great teaching kit with an holistic approach to teaching health. The Wellness kit has been designed to help young people learn about themselves, examine important areas in building a wellness lifestyle and perceive themselves in positive self-affirming ways.

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