Teacher Mode

So, I found out for sure the other day that I will be student teaching in January, and I am totally scared/excited. For those that don't know, I am majoring in Health Ed with a minor in PE. (I'm hoping to be able to help coach track as well)

On to the point though... I was working ALL day on Saturday making a bulletin board for my teaching methods class and when I went to the Dollar Tree to get some extra stuff for it, I found my new best friend. His name is Marco.

That is when I knew I was totally into teaching. When I noticed this, and my first thought was "AWESOME!!! This is the greatest thing ever! How could I use this in my class?" It was really sad, and the sadder part is that I was playing with him all weekend, and I think I have mastered the art of getting the liver and stomach to sit just perfectly above the intestines.

Anyways... just wanted to let you all know that I am losing my mind. BUT on the bright side, I have found TONS of sites that will send you free stuff for teaching, so this is for all of you health educators out there:

http://nmhicstore.samhsa.gov/publications/ordering.aspx (this has a bunch of random stuff, mostly drug use/abuse stuff)
http://catalog.niddk.nih.gov/ (this was AMAZING for diabetes, digestive diseases and kidney diseases, sooo much information)
http://backtoschool.drugabuse.gov/ (this has some great stuff for a unit on drug use)

National Institute of Health (I haven't actually gotten the stuff from them yet, but I heard that it is really inclusive. They are curriculum sets on a bunch of different subjects)

teachfree.org (has some good stuff for a nutrition unit)

And if you live in Idaho, Idaho Dairy Council is great as well for nutrition. My friend got her stuff from them yesterday, and she said she got three boxes of it. I am still anxiously awaiting mine (getting free stuff is like Christmas)