A Picture of Health: Human Health Continuum
Use A Picture of Health to prime students to think about what it means to be healthy. Before they tackle ecosystem health, students consider human health – a topic more familiar that they all have personal experience with. Students look at a set of photographs of people that show a range of health. They work together to arrange them along a continuum from healthy to unhealthy. They practice backing up their decisions with reasons and evidence, a skill they will use when assessing ecosystem health.
Once they make a personal connection with the concept of health, they can then begin to apply it to ecosystems in A Picture of Health: Ecosystem Health Continuum: http://vitalsignsme.org/ecosystem-health-continuum
