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FILM IN HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
school environment requires something more than physical sanitation, and they have set up plans for the organization and administration of activities which make up the daily schedule of the child.
2. The classroom teacher may have the responsibility of mainaining hygienic conditions within her own room, and she will be concerned with the development of health concepts, and with the practice of desirable health habits.
3. Administrators may assume the responsibility for school environment and may delegate the work of maintenance to the instructional staff and the janitorial staff, or they may place the responsibility in the hands of a school committee. Environmental check sheets are often used to survey sanitary conditions, and these may be forwarded to a central office for reference.
Briefly, the picture indicates that there are many areas in which improvement is definitely needed, and all these have direct bearing upon the health of the child and the effectiveness of the entire school health program, health service, healthful school living, and health instruction.
The health instruction phase of the health program is the one with which this chapter is most concerned, and the follow mg illustrations will indicate some of the procedures that are being practiced in schools at the present time:
1. Health essentials are integrated, wherever it seems feasible, in social sciences, biology, home economics, and physical education activities. This may vary in different schools, but all follow the pattern of body functioning, personal hygiene, nutrition, importance of adequate rest and sleep, importance of adequate exercise and out-door living, and the harmful effects of alcohol and narcotics. More recently health educators have included areas in safety and accident prevention, sex education, mental hygiene and consumer health.
2. The special health classes, which begin in some schools on the fifth and sixth grade level and continue through
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