Title of Bulletin Board: Awareness Wednesday

Category: Health

Suggested Grade Level: All

Materials: Printed health awareness Information and some decorative letters.

Description:

This board was created in September and on every Monday of the school year it was updated for the week. It's purpose was to highlight and share different health awareness initiatives taking place in the United States, as well as, making the children aware of the different topics. To keep students engaged and wanting to inquire about each weeks new awareness the PE staff dressed with the appropriate color scheme highlighting the health awareness each Wednesday of the week. So for example, students knew that we were wearing "pink" because it was "breast cancer awareness week", etc...

Children responded well to the information hanging on the board. Every week students always had a story or two to share about family members and friends who may have shared similar passions for a particular cause.

Additional Information:

These were some of the topics we shared out:

Leukemia-Orange
Childhood Cancer-Gold
Lymphoma- Lime
Alzheimers-Purple
Breast Cancer-Pink
Down Syndrome- yellow/blue
Spina Bifida Black/Yellow
Arthritis-Blue
Diabetes white/red
Epilepsy-purple
Lung Cancer- white
AIDS- Red
Glaucoma- green
Thyroid Cancer- Teal, Pink, Blue
Organ Donor-green
World Cancer Day-purple
Black History- red green yellow black
Cerebal Palsy-green
Autism-Rainbow
Parkinson's-Grey
Arthritis-blue
Cystic Fibrosis-purple
Celiacs Disease-green
Melanoma-black
Armed Forces Appreciaiton- red, white, blue