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Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs
Unit I: Intro:
Using Case Studies as Learning Tools
Unit II: Healthy
Communities
Unit III: Safe
Jobs for Youth
Unit IV: Peer Education
Unit V: Conclusion:
Reflections and Next Steps
Child Labor — Then and Now
Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs (HC, HJ), is an interactive,
37-session, semester-long curriculum designed to be taught
to high school students. It is comprised of all five units
(I,II, III, IV, V) that address workplace and environmental
health and safety issues. The units are written to progressively
build a knowledge base for students on the topics of environmental
health, workplace health and safety, critical thinking, peer
education, leadership, and communication skills. Additionally,
the curriculum is written to prepare youth for meaningful
experiential and service learning opportunities. Units I and
V are sold together. Units II, III and IV can be purchased
individually.
$95.00 plus Mailing Costs
Reflects a $15.00 savings when curriculum is purchased
as a whole (includes five 3-ring binders, two videos,
two foto novelas, and all accompanying lesson plans, teacher
supplements, handouts, and transparencies)
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Unit I: Introduction to Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs:
Using Case Studies as Learning Tools contain five learner-centered
sessions. Included with this Unit is a "How-to"
Guide and introductory video, Healthy Communities, Healthy
Jobs: A Curriculum for Youth Empowerment, produced to
assist classroom teachers who want to teach health and safety
classes to high school youth. It is also applicable for community
organizations that have youth programs. In this Unit students
are introduced to the use of case studies as a tool for learning
about the experiences of others and developing problem-solving
strategies. Designed for eleventh through twelfth grade students,
this Unit can be downloaded from the LOSH website for free
or purchased together with Unit V, Conclusion to Healthy
Communities, Healthy Jobs: REFLECTIONS and NEXT STEPS for
Making a Difference!
$25.00 plus Mailing Costs
(includes two 3-ring binders, one video, and all accompanying
lesson plans, teacher supplements, and handouts)
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Unit II: Healthy Communities is a five-session environmental
health unit designed for integration into high school health,
science, or social science classes. Topics covered include
air pollution, water pollution, household and school-based
environmental hazards, and environmental justice. Healthy
Communities provides students with the opportunity to
understand the benefits of a clean environment on human health
and well-being. The curriculum can be downloaded from the
LOSH website for free or purchased.
$25.00 plus Mailing Costs
(Includes 3-ring binder, lessons plans, two foto novelas,
teacher supplements & handouts).
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Unit III: Safe Jobs for Youth is a ten-session learner-centered
unit that addresses young worker rights. Topics covered include
occupational safety and health practices, child labor information
including wage and hour laws, handling sexual harassment and
discrimination issues, role of unions in resolving problems,
and problem-solving workplace issues. The curriculum, targeted
to 8th through 12th grade students who will be entering the
workforce for the first time, can be downloaded from the LOSH
website for free or purchased.
$35.00 plus Mailing Costs
(Includes 3-ring binder, lessons plans, handouts, overhead
transparencies, & video)
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 Unit
IV: Peer Education is a fifteen-session unit that focuses
on how youth peer educators can organize and teach other students,
their families, or community groups about workplace health
and safety. The focus is on experiential learning and skills
building for peer educators. The Unit contains sessions on
how to work as a team, how to develop lesson plans, how to
make presentations, and how to teach health and safety using
a popular education approach. It also provides sample lesson
plans for teaching workplace health and safety. The Unit is
designed to be used after students have taken the SJFY Unit;
however, teachers can use it as a stand-alone unit by supplementing
with some sessions from SJFY. This Unit can be downloaded
from the LOSH website for free or purchased.
$25.00 plus Mailing Costs
(Includes 3-ring binder, lessons plans, teacher supplements
& handouts).
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V: Conclusion - Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs: REFLECTIONS
and NEXT STEPS for Making a Difference! offers two sessions
of culminating activities that summarize what was learned
in the previous units and asks students to reflect on their
experience, accomplishments, and next steps for using the
knowledge and skills gained in their school, workplace, or
community through service learning activities. Designed for
eleventh through twelfth grade students, this Unit can be
downloaded from the LOSH website for free or purchased together
with Unit I, Introduction to Healthy Communities, Healthy
Jobs: Using Case Studies as Learning Tools.
$25.00 plus Mailing Costs
(includes two 3-ring binders, one video, and all accompanying
lesson plans, teacher supplements, and handouts)
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Child Labor — Then and Now is a four-session standards-based
mini-unit focusing on workplace-related issues, such as health and safety and child labor laws in the early 1900s
and now. The first session provides a historical context of the period (Progressive Era, 1900-1920), particularly
how it relates to child labor and workplace health and safety. The second session introduces students to Lewis Hine
and his crusade to end the abuses of child labor. Session three connects child labor and workplace health and safety
then and now. The fourth session begins a discussion of how laws protect young workers and encourages the students
to examine the effectiveness of child labor laws today.
$10.00 plus Mailing Costs
(Includes 3-ring binder, lesson plans, and handouts)
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