Understanding Today's Students
Learning Styles
Teaching With the Brain in Mind
Teaching Health Effectively
Teaching for Behavior Change
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This term is used to describe the approach to learning in which learners learn from peers and nontraditional sources such as the internet and other media.
What is the lateral approach.
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This kind of learning style means that a person has a preference for information presented in visual format or through observation such as a pictures, diagrams, etc.
What is visual learning style
100
Many of the synapses that will eventually be formed after birth are a result of what?
What is learning (learned).
100
List three of the 10 content areas that health education has been organized around.
What is mental/emotional health; substance use and abuse; health eating and physical activity; personal health; safety and first aid; consumer health; community health; disease prevention and control; family life/human sexuality; and environmental health.
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This is one of the first theories of health behavior which identifies six factors that influence individuals to act in ways that help to improve their health.
What is the Health Belief Model.
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This is a term used to refer to today's learners because of their regular use of technology.
What is "Digital Natives."
200
This learning style has a preference for learning through touching or manipulating things.
What is a kinesthetic learning style.
200
This terms refers to the formation of new neural pathways through new experiences.
What is neural branching.
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These are written expectations for what students should know and be able to do by grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 to promote personal, family, and community health.
What is the National Health Education Standards.
200
This theory examines the relationship between health behavior and beliefs, attitudes, and intentions.
What is the Theory of Planned Behavior.
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The brain does not become fully mature until individuals are in how old?
What is the early 20's.
300
This learning style is a preference for seeing the "bigger picture" before "putting all the pieces together."
What is a global learning style.
300
This term refers to the optimal state for student learning.
What is relaxed alertness.
300
There are eight interactive components to the Coordinated School Health Program. List two.
What is health education, health services, healthy school environment, physical education, family/community involvement, health promotions staff, counseling and psychological services, and nutrition services.
300
This theory identifies that people learn and are influenced by watching what others do.
What is the Social Cognitive Theory.
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Two types of brain matter exist. One is pruned away and the other is proliferated in order to make a more efficient brain. Which is which?
What is grey matter is pruned away, and white matter is proliferated.
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This learning style has a preference for understanding things that can be seen, heard, or touched.
What is a concrete learning style.
400
These three main brain systems are taken into account when preparing lessons and planning for instruction, according to Judy Willis.
What is the reticular activating system, amygdala, and dopamine.
400
This organization advocates skill-based health education.
What is the World Health Organization.
400
This term refers to confidence in one's ability to perform a health action or behavior and to overcome barriers resistant to taking the action.
What is self-efficacy.
500
What region of the brain is the last region of the brain to undergo the maturation process, and what is one of the things that it is responsible for?
What is the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for reasoning, planning, organization of thoughts, weighing of consequences, and suppressing impulses.
500
List three of the eight intelligences.
What is linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal (social) intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, or naturalistic intelligence.
500
Because the human brain is an information-processing organ it learns best through this.
What is experience.
500
List two of the four leading causes of death among young adults ages 10-24
What is Motor vehicle crashes, other unintentional injuries, homicide, or suicide.
500
The Stages of Change Model is based on the premise that behavior change is a process, not an event. List and describe two of the five stages.
What is Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, or Maintenance.