Health and Literacy Compendium Home Page
Materials Index Page

Curricula, Curriculum Guides, and Lessons Index Page

Available at: http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/esquare. Click on "Health Center"; free.

This Web site, still in development, includes teacher and student-created materials on a variety of health topics, including smoking cessation, headaches, stress, home remedies in the Hispanic community, and nutrition. The nutrition section includes Chinese recipes and herbs. However, not all the content is accurate; some material is included based on student opinions. The nutrition piece gives examples of how a teacher incorporated some talk about nutrition into her ESOL classroom. The smoking piece includes some online grammar exercises; for example, using "a" and "the" with medical words ("a cold," "the flu").

Keywords: Headaches / Immigrants / Nutrition / Smoking / Stress