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APPENDIX E
LIFE
YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Scheme of Work for Secondary School Children (Age 14+ years)
AIMS 1. To give the children a greater understanding of their own
development.
2. To enlarge their understanding of external influence on growth
and behaviour.
3. To emphasise the individual's responsibility for his own behaviour
and its possible effects on other people.
One unit can be a double period or can be expanded - depending on the
demands of the timetable and the ability of the pupils. At the end of each
unit themes which could be developed as project work and the type of normal
subject with which they link are suggested.
Visits to clinics, training centres for the mentally handicapped, Old
People's Homes, Housing Estates, Sewage Works, etc., are all interesting
practical background for the course.
Information about reference books, leaflets, films, slides and posters is
available from the Health Education Section, Health Department, 3rd Floor
Room 18, Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 3BT. Telephone 686-4433
Ext. 2128.
UNIT 1 Growth and Development (1)
From Conception to One Year
(a) The factors of heredity.
fb) The start of life.
(c) The child before birth - with emphasis on the importance of
nutrition and prevention of disease in the mother's ante-natal
care.
(d) The importance of environment in the first year of life on:-
(i) Emotional security of the child.
(ii) The mother figure.
(iii) Health and growth of the child.
Some Suggested Visual Aids
Flannelgraph or plastigraph of somatotypes.
Flannelgraph or plastigraph of heredity.
Growth Charts.
Film: "Human Heredity". Sound, Colour, Runs 14 minutes from:
Boulter-Hawker Films Ltd., Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk.