Health Printable: SHAPE America Health Skills Toolbox
Check out this easy printable for health class! This SHAPE America Health Skills Toolbox is the perfect teaching visual to introduce and reinforce the SHAPE America health skills to students. Each printable “tool” features one of health health skills (i.e. decision making) and a corresponding skill cue (i.e. WISE). This printable to free for any Project School Wellness Curriculum member and anyone who owns the Health Skills Toolkit. Just click here to download and print.
How To Use the Health Skills Toolbox
I designed this health skills toolbox when I realized that my elementary and middle school heatlh students were not quite understanding how the health skills connect to their personal well-being. After creating this health teaching tool, I used it as an illustration that just like we use tools like a drill and hammer to build and create, the health skills are the tools we use to manage and care for our health and well-being.
After introudcing the health skills toolbox concept to students, I use the toolbox as a quick check-in and reminder. For example, when we would talk about a health issue impacting their life (i.e. making poor sleep decisiosn), I would bring out the health skills toolkit and they would use it to identify which health skill(s) could they use to help with the issue (i.e. analyzing influences).
It’s a simple yet powerful health education teaching device that works for any grade! Now, let’s take look at the step-by-step guide on how to make this health skills toolkit (but first, click here to download the printable graphics).
A Step-By-Step Guide on How to Make the Health Skills Toolbox
What You Need*:
Scissors
Glue Stick
Clear Packing Tape
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Step 1: Fold the File Folder
Step 2: Draw Lines to Create a Handle
Step 3: Outline the Handle
Step 4: Cut Out the Toolbox
Step 5: Tape Down the Folded Piece
Step 6: Print & Cut the Graphics and Glue on the Label
Step 7: Line Up the Cut Graphics and Punch a Hole
Layout the tools and determine how you’d like them to be organized in the “toolbox.” Once you have a set up you like, punch a hole through all of the tools at once.
Step 8: Laminate and Cut the Graphics
Step 9: Poke a Tiny Hole through the Hole Punched Hole
Poking a tiny hole will help the visual stay more secure.
Step 10: Push a Fastener Through Each Graphic
Step 11: Connect the Set of Health Skills to the Toolbox
Ta-Da! Your health skills toolbox is complete! Now you can use this visual teaching aid to introduce students to each of the SHAPE America health skills and the corresponding skill cues. It’s also a great health teaching tool to use to quicly reinforce the concept of the health skills being the tools we use to take care of our well-being.
