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Educational Programming

Head to Toe

Teacher's Guide
When it airs: Overnight schedule  

Grades K-3; Health/ Science; Fifteen 15-minute episodes
Introduce the workings of the human body to children in early elementary grades. Develop students' knowledge and the attitudes and practices needed to achieve and maintain good health. Encourage the avoidance of risky health behaviors, and reinforce existing positive health habits. Head to Toe builds upon children's natural interest in how the body looks, works, breaks down, heals, and grows. Use this series to emphasize children's personal involvement in achieving and maintaining their own good health.

101. In the Beginning. Analyzes the process by which a special cell inside a mother's body grows into an embryo, a fetus, and then a newborn baby. Explains why babies need special care.

102. Cells, Your Starting Place. Explains how all plants, animals, and people are made up of different kinds of cells. Discovers how cells contain genes, which are inherited from parents and carry a different blueprint for each living thing.

103. In a Heartbeat. Illustrates the functions of the heart and blood. Explores activities that keep the heart healthy.

104. Muscles, Holding You Together.
Shows how muscles help bodies move and do many different things. Teaches why muscles need exercise.

105. Standing Tall.
Examines how the skeleton, bones, and joints support and protect a body and give it shape. Investigates activities that help keep bones strong, healthy, and safe.

106. Fueling Up.
Shows how food becomes fuel for bodies and how to choose a variety of healthful foods.

107. From Fuel to Waste.
Explains how people and other living things make solid and liquid waste that must be eliminated from the body. Identifies foods that aid in eliminating waste.

108. Fresh Air. Examines how the air we breathe into our lungs contains oxygen, which a body must have to stay alive. Considers ways to keep lungs healthy.

109. Control Center. Studies how the brain uses messages from the five senses to think, learn, and remember. Studies how to protect the brain.

110. Fighting Germs and Diseases.
Analyzes how germs can enter the body and make someone sick. Shows how to avoid harmful germs.

111. Sounds.
Explores how ears work and how loud sounds can damage ears. Focuses on ways to protect hearing.

112. Sights.
Illustrates how eyes work and how they are protected. Shows how to protect vision.

113. A Healthy Smile.
Explains how and why baby teeth are replaced by permanent teeth. Demonstrates actions to help keep teeth healthy.

114. Staying Healthy.
Investigates how children can promote their own health. Teaches to recognize and describe accomplishments and to determine why healthy choices are best.

115. Safety First.
Shows how to keep safe at home and away from home. Describes what it means to be responsible for one's own safety.