You can print out a Worksheet to guide you through implmentation of the five steps.
Step one
Task
List keywords based on your course objectives or student learning outcomes.
Example
Health Course Textbook
For a typical Healthy Lifestyles or Health Education course, expected outcomes are that students will be able to:
Appraise and assess public attitudes and behavior regarding health and
disease .
Recognize, examine and formulate the importance of
immunizations .
Recognize and assess public bias towards
aging, diabetes, epilepsy, STDs , etc.
Differentiate the major classifications of
communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Examine and discuss the role of
epidemiology in
public health .
Assess and analyze
nutritional behavior.
Identify the major means of transmission for communicable diseases.
Identify and examine immunizations in relationship to
immunity .
Examine the three levels of
health promotion /
disease prevention .
Identify, compare, and discuss normal versus abnormal patterns of behavior.
Identify and compare the major classifications of
drugs .
Examine and appraise patterns of
drug abuse .
Compare
cultural health behaviors and suggest associated consequences.
Keywords identified for a Healthy Lifestyles course are:
communicable and non-communicable diseases
immunizations
aging, diabetes, epilepsy, STDs
epidemiology
public health
nutrition
immunity
health promotion
drug abuse
cultural health behaviors
Step two
Task
Search for open content using the keywords you have identified. Several resources are available on the Internet that provide teachers with tools to identify and select open content for use in instruction.
Cultural factors include race, ethnicity, language, nationality, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, income level, and occupation. Ensure that information is relevant to the intended students' social and cultural contexts.
