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e-News from the Weller Health Education Center =============================== EXPLAINING AVIAN FLU TO YOUR STUDENTS Recent news stories about avian flu can be very scary to children. The Weller Center has provided a kid-friendly article on our website that helps explain the bird flu to kids and answer some of the many questions they have. You can also search the KidsHealth archives featuring tens of thousands of medically-reviewed articles for kids and teens! Just visit www.wellercenter.org. =============================== STUDY SHOWS KIDS LEARN AND RETAIN INFORMATION FROM LIFE BEGINS Each year, hundreds of schools across PA and NJ utilize the Weller Center’s Life Begins program as a key part of their units on fetal development and the birth process. Our most popular program, Life Begins is seen by more than 6,000 fifth and sixth grade students every year! A new outcomes-based study proves what we’ve long known—that students learn and retain the vital information provided in Life Begins. Read more about the study on our website. For additional information or to schedule Life Begins this spring for your students, call 610-258-8500, ext. 10. =============================== *FREE* ENRICHMENT PACKETS MEETING MATH AND READING STANDARDS Did you know you can download free enrichment packets for every Weller Center program? Packets include program terminology to help you prepare your students for their program, along with group and individual classroom activities and teacher lesson plans. Activities are designed to meet health, science, consumer science, math and reading academic standards in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Just visit http://www.wellercenter.org/teachers.htm and click on enrichment packets. =============================== HELP YOUR STUDENTS STAY FIT AND HEALTHY
With all the talk lately about BMI and helping kids learn to stay fit, what can you do to help your students learn and practice healthy habits? Check out our new article, written just for kids, on being a fit kid. =============================== TAKE OUR ONLINE SURVEY AND HELP US SERVE YOU BETTER!
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