This schoolyear teachers, students, and families are faced with serious communicable health risks to every generation. The first precaution is timely and appropriate vaccinations. Then, teachers (and families) should provide healthy environments and experiences so students and staff are less likely to fall victim to this year's serious round of infectious diseases. Influenza is serious this year. Whooping Cough has made a comeback, with Measles coming right behind. When watching the news, its like a movie and you expect Dustin Hoffman to appear in full hazmat suit, particularly when patient zero spreads measles from Disneyland. What's a teacher to do?
Five Ways to a Cleaner, Healthier Classroom
http://www.nea.org/home/32002.htm
The heat is on overheated classrooms
In winter, the heat is often cranked too high in schools. And when the warm spring and early summer weather comes, many schools do not have air conditioning. Humid spikes in classroom temperatures foster sluggishness and even illness for people with medical conditions.
Teaching Students Healthy Habits
http://www.nea.org/home/teaching-students-healthy-habits.html
Strategies to Keep Schools Clean and Students Healthy
http://www.cleanlink.com/news/article/Strategies-to-Keep-Schools-Clean-and-Students-Healthy--14643
More Fresh Air in Classrooms Means Fewer Absences
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2013/06/05/more-fresh-air-in-classrooms-means-fewer-absences/
15 houseplants for improving indoor air quality
http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/photos/15-houseplants-for-improving-indoor-air-quality/a-breath-of-fresh-air
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| Here's even more! 19 Houseplants that Clean the air http://www.allnaturalhomeandbeauty.com/19-houseplants-clean-the-air/ |
Vaccines are Effective
http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/effectiveness/
Clean, Healthy Classroom Management Techniques
