Table 5 Contents of the children’s book and the teachers’ guide
Children’s book The Health Choices Book: Learning to Think Carefully about Treatments. A health science book for primary school children 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 Glossary | Teachers’ Guide Teacher’ guide for the Health Choices 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 children’s book: • 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 |