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Health Curriculum Materials
This page is designed to serve adult educators who are interested in making connections between health education and literacy education.
HEAL:BCC Website
The Health Education and Adult Literacy: Breast and Cervical Cancer (HEAL:BCC) Project is a good example of a collaboration between the fields of health and literacy. Originally funded by the Centers for Disease Control, the website includes a complete curriculum appropriate for ABE and ESOL classes.
Health and Literacy Compendium
Completed in early 1999, this online "reference book" consists of 100 well-annotated bibliographic entries covering print and electronic health education resources. Along with embedded Web links, the compendium is cross-indexed by subject, format, language and reading level.
Health and Literacy Special Collection
This website contains a number of resources with particular applicability to adult literacy classrooms, including several online lesson plans and student projects, along with statistics and policy info. Look first at the New Readers and Teachers/Tutors menu selections.
Integrating Health Across the Curriculum ![[PDF icon]](../../images/pdfsm2.gif)
This 43-page PDF training module is designed to encourage and support adult education programs in integrating health into all areas of their curriculum and in connecting to other initiatives such as family literacy, curriculum frameworks, community planning and technology.
MedlinePlus
From the National Institutes of Health comes this very rich health information site, written in a manner accessible to general adult literacy practitioners — particularly the "plain language" section — and including over 150 tutorials.
My Life Story with Cancer
This story was written by a student at Somerville (MA) Center for Adult Learning Experiences (SCALE), and adapted for students with limited English literacy. It also includes a version for Spanish speakers. For teachers, a section on using Mary's story in the classroom is included, as well selected breast and cervical cancer resources.
Question Violence: Love is the Answer
Selections from a book and project that were done at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association by four students in the Young Parent Program. Their purpose was to learn more and to teach others about health and violence in the community of Lowell, MA.
Read/Write/Now Brochure Project
This project is a wonderful example of how to integrate health content using a participatory model of curriculum development and of how to foster student leadership development. Their seven brochures are just below, but also check out the project's process overview.
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