Learning About Growing Up Series
Learning to Say How You Feel
The Library of Social Activism Series
Life Lessons Series
Like You, Dad (Wellness)
Living With HIV
Looking for a Hero
Looking Good, Feeling Good: Healthy You
Lucent Overview Series
Learning About Growing Up Series (Video). Please refer to the titles: From Boyhood to Manhood, From Girlhood to Womanhood, and Sex & Responsibility.
Learning to Say How You Feel (Video). Sunburst Communications (SUN), 1995. 23 min. Order no. 2566-03 ($169.95).
This video, with a teacher's guide, helps Middle Level students explore and identify their feelings in words and actions. It illustrates the importance of naming feelings, accepting responsibility for them, and sharing them with others. It also explains that people cannot be expected to react appropriately to feelings that are not verbalized. Situations common to Middle Level students are dealt with in the video. Learning to Say How You Feel encourages students to think about their feelings in a safe and supportive environment. The accompanying materials provide individual and group activities so students can examine feelings in a variety of situations.
Suggested Use: Grade 7 - Assertiveness Skills
Other Use: Students With Challenging Behaviours
The Library of Social Activism Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the titles: Working Together Against Drinking and Driving, Working Together Against School Violence, and Working Together Against Teen Suicide.
Life Lessons Series (Video). Please refer to the title: Mirror for the Heart: Facing Eating Disorders.
Like You, Dad (Wellness) (Video). (Your Choice...Our Chance Series). Agency for Instructional Technology (MGR), 1990. 15 min. Dup. order no. V3508. Teacher's Guide for series - Order no. G3498 ($2.25 loose-leaf).
Thirteen-year-old Carol and eleven-year-old Amy attend a health fair at school with their parents and brother. Their father, Jack, takes a health test that shows that his smoking, lack of exercise, and eating habits have affected his blood pressure and pulse rate. His wife and his daughters are concerned and conspire to plan a camping vacation for the family, hoping that exercise and limited junk food will help his health. Jack struggles to keep up on the first day's hike, and then decides to sit out the next one, along with nine-year-old Richard, who idolizes his father. As they lounge in front of the tent watching a portable TV, Richard decides to go to the camp store to get more snack food. He finds his father's cigarettes and tries one. Jack finds him and gets angry but realizes that his own example is influencing his son. When the family packs up to leave the campground, Jack suggests coming again next year. He then drops his cigarette carton in the trash. Supporting print material is available from Media Group.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Drug Addictions and Gambling; Grade 7 - Alcohol and Other Drugs; Grade 8 - Family Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities
Living With HIV (Video). (Teen Issues Series). Altschul Group (MMP), 1996. 17 min. No order number is required. ($250.00).
This program focuses on Rick Harrington, a 13-year-old boy with HIV. Rick addresses what HIV is, how it is transmitted, and how it affects him. He displays a very positive attitude. Dr. Pizzo from the National Institute of Health also relates information regarding HIV/AIDS including the progress made with experimental drugs that do not cure the disease, but suppress it.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 7 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 8 - HIV/AIDS Education
Looking for a Hero (Print-Fiction). Boyd, David. Rubicon Publishing Inc. (NPI), 1993. 102 p. ISBN 0-921156-42-1 ($7.95 pbk.).
(CAN) Told through interview transcripts, flashback narratives, and psychiatric reports, this story describes the trauma resulting when an adolescent's revered older brother dies of AIDS after receiving tainted blood from a blood transfusion. This is an easily read book suitable for reluctant readers.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 7 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 8 - HIV/AIDS Education
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
Looking Good, Feeling Good: Healthy You (Video). Sunburst Communications (SUN), 1994. 17 min. Order no. 2461-03 ($149.95).
The emphasis of this three-part program is on adolescents taking charge of their own personal care as they move through puberty. Part One addresses caring for your skin and healthy eating. Part Two concentrates on proper care of hair and teeth. Part Three focuses on the importance of exercise and cleanliness. Even though the program uses the American Food Pyramid to provide nutrition guidance, it is useful for Saskatchewan schools.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Body Image and Nutrition; Caring for Eyes, Ears, and Teeth; Grade 7 - Healthy Eating; Personal Hygiene; Grade 8 - Caring for Skin
Lucent Overview Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the title: Suicide.