Current Health Kids Teaching Center


A health magazine for tweens in print and digital format, covering physical and emotional health, fitness, nutrition, decision-making, relationships, and more


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Click on the tabs above to access key points, classroom discussion questions, extension activity ideas, resources, and more for each feature article in this issue.

A button at right links to our Digital Edition, which makes it easy to use the magazine on computers, interactive whiteboards, and projectors. This month's edition debuts some exciting new bonus features. Pop-up highlights and thinking questions help students engage with the text and make it easy for you to call attention to key messages. In the column at right you'll also find links to a printable teacher's guide for this issue, our 2011-12 Planning Calendar, our Current Health blogs, and our archives.
 

 

In This Issue

Your Mind: Vitamin G for Your Mind

Your Body: Uninvited Guests

Your World: Eye on the Olympics

Your Relationships: Looking for Answers

Online Exclusives

• Our 2011-12 planning calendar helps you plan lessons for the whole school year.

• Our 2011-12 index can help you keep track of your favorite Current Health Kids articles or find a useful article you missed.

• Great news! Now all the reproducible worksheets for each issue—including the bonus reading comprehension worksheets, one for each feature article—are together in one place, within your Teacher's Guide. Access these worksheets and more online at right under "Printable Teacher's Guide" at right.

It has been a pleasure to serve you and your students during this past school year. On behalf of the Current Health team and everyone at Weekly Reader Publishing, I want to thank you for having us in your classrooms. We wish you and your students much health and happiness, always. Again, thank you.  

 

With my best,


Alicia Zadrozny, Editor

 

Past Teaching Centers

September 2011

October 2011

November 2011

December 2011

January 2012

February 2012

March 2012

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