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HEALTHY CHOICES, HEALTHY LIVES - 7th - 8th Grades

30 Guests
Transportation
Private Instruction
Lesson Plans

Available Year Round
Handicap Accessibility

85 Minute Program - can be combined with other Health Education Programs at a discounted rate.

Group will be picked up in a clean school bus and transported to the Robert Crown Center for Health Education in the nearby western suburbs of Chicago.

As they grow more independent, early teens need to make the connection between their choices and their health. We highlight the relationship between personal lifestyle and the effects on the nervous, respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems. Eating too much junk food and making bad choices about drugs and alcohol have consequences. We emphasize good choices and simple, preventative and health-promoting measures.

Nearly 100 Title I students and their families attended their first Teaching Safari Game Night at St. John de la Salle. Educational games were selected and given to the students to play with parents and siblings. The games featured comprehensive coverage and differentiated instruction capabilities accommodating visual, written, oral, and aural learning styles, and also meet ISBE State Standards. The students were engaged in a hands-on format which allowed them to become active in the learning process. Parents enjoyed some "down time" followed by pizza, soda, water, and Icee Pops. -Kaye Phillips