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About The Curriculum
Sunny Days Healthy Ways® (SDHW®) is a sun safety curriculum that uses a comprehensive, cross-curricular approach to teaching skin cancer prevention skills to children in grades K through 8. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society acknowledge SDHW® as a national resource for complying with their recommendations for how schools can help prevent skin cancer. In addition, national, state and district standards in math, language arts, social studies, health and science can all be addressed while teaching sun safety in the classroom. SDHW® – start to finish – provides an average of 8 hours of sun safety instruction, per grade, that you can tailor to your timeframe and needs. Prepared lesson plans, student activity sheets, experiment materials, story books and assessments minimize prep time and make teaching SDHW® easy. In addition, this website provides new content, continuing updates and support as needed. You can have direct access to SDHW® creators whenever you need it. Why teach children to prevent skin cancer? Even though skin cancer occurs mainly in adults, the damage was likely done during childhood. Long periods of unprotected sun exposure and severe sunburning as a child can lead to skin cancer and eye damage later in life. Good health habits started in childhood are more likely to last a lifetime. SDHW® teaches children positive sun protection habits without scare tactics. The focus is on ‘not getting a sunburn.’ The word ‘skin cancer’ is not even mentioned until grade 4. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and is increasing at an alarming rate. SDHW® was created with targeted grants from the National Cancer Institute (CA62968 & CA23074) and the Arizona Disease Control Commission (9403) to help stem the epidemic. SDHW® is the only sun protection curriculum in the United States that has been systematically evaluated through a series of scientific studies. It is effective at increasing knowledge, forming positive attitudes and improving sun safety behaviors. For over 10 years, teachers, instructional designers, skin cancer prevention experts and students have been developing, evaluating and innovating the SDHW® curriculum. Users find it to be convenient, engaging and effective. But it is only truly effective when it is used by concerned teachers like you. Go to Sun Safety Info for more information on skin cancer, risk factors and principles of sun safety. |
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