For the 15th year in a row, North Daviess R-3 students took part in the Life Education Centers Reach Out America program on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Life Education Center is a mobile classroom which offers a preventive approach to legal and illegal drug abuse, said R-3 counselor Larry Heaps. The programs are designed to complement existing health and drug abuse curriculums already in place.
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The aim of Life Education is to provide children in their earlier formative years with an awareness of themselves by teaching them about the wonder of the human body and how it functions; of how and why it is affected by substances that upset its delicate equilibrium. The programs also examine the physical, mental and emotional effects of abuse on the body. Specifically, the program seeks solutions to the problems of alcohol and other drug abuse, child abuse, disease, violence and other destructive behaviors.
The underlying theme of all Life Education programs is to teach students that they are unique…in the whole world there will never be anyone the same as them.
The Life Education Centers provide a progressively graded series of programs for children in kindergarten through grade eight. Each program deals with a different theme so that every trip to the LEC will be an integral part of the school year each year.
Life Education technology places teacher and students in a totally safe and exciting environment where important issues can be raised for open discussion.
Life Education uses sophisticated sight and sound techniques operated by laser disc, a talking brain, role playing, dancing, star ceiling, Body Puzzles and a transparent anatomical mannequin called TAM.
These all help make a trip to the mobile unit a positive and memorable experience.
Attracting a new class of friends every time he appears is Harold the Singing Giraffe. Harold is a key personality throughout the programs. He sings to the children about health, peer pressure and advertising influences. Harold, the most loved character, appears either as a puppet in the earlier grades or as a four-foot-high automated giraffe in the older grades.
The program provides teachers with pre- and post-visit materials so that discussion and appropriate activities can take place in the classroom.
Local coordinator for the program is Jeanne Daley, Director of Education; administrator is Mrs. Lucy Webb. Reach Out America, Inc. is located at 3003 NW Oakcrest Dr., Kansas City.