Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part LIX - Bulletin 103-Louisiana Health Education Content Standards
Chapter 3 - Teaching and Learning of Health Education
Section LIX-303 - Curriculum Integration

A. Adoption of standards across curricular areas increases the potential to make connections which come naturally among subjects from early childhood through high school. Curriculum integration can help students make connections between health content and generic skills (e.g., critical thinking, decision-making, etc.). In addition to teaching health education in a self-contained environment, integration of other subjects will support, rather than replace, student learning of health education concepts. However, for integration to be effective, staff development must occur. Teachers need time to meet collaboratively, to identify connections across subject areas, and to plan curricular integration within and across grade levels.

B. In teaching health education, other subject areas can be easily integrated. Health education curricula can be easily integrated with reading comprehension, language arts, science, mathematics, social studies, and physical education. For example, at the elementary level, the health education curriculum is specifically intended to teach the interpersonal and conflict management skills students need to "get along." These skills are grounded in listening and speaking effectively. Health education also affords students many opportunities to write about topics of interest to them such as their personal feelings, growth, and development. In addition, students can apply the mathematical and science processes of measuring, charting, graphing, estimating, predicting, justifying, and classifying in conjunction with health lessons. At the middle and high school levels: