Anti Drug and Health Programs
As I mentioned in an earlier entry, one type of program often available for free to schools is the kind presented by hospitals as an outreach service to the local community. I used to contact a hospital in my area each year and have them come out and do a primary only program about Bike Safety and Helmets.
The gym teacher and school nurse loved it! Honestly, I don’t know how much the kids did, but they were happy enough to listen, it probably did them a lot of good
to hear it and I don’t think it hurt in any way. But almost all of this type of program will be presented by someone from the hospital staff and not by a trained, professional performer. The content is great! They are purely educational school assembly programs. But the execution, though very well intended, can be all over the charts depending entirely upon how lucky you get with the nurse or doctor charged with bringing you the show that week.
However, there is a need for school assembly programs about the human body, and human anatomy, as this is a core component of most states’ elementary curriculum. My kids had this taught to them in two or three different grade levels while they were in elementary school. There is also a need for drug free assembly programs as this is also a highly stressed area of education in most schools. An additional incentive is that Title Four funding and other grants can often be used to fund school assemblies that promote drug and alcohol free living. Thankfully, the two topics, anatomy and an anti drug message, dovetail beautifully, and there are a variety of school assembly programs available to schools that deal with this very area. Keep in mind that these are programs designed usually for just elementary grades, and are not normally suitable for middle school age students.
At Mobile Ed we offer two such programs that have received very high marks from schools. Bodyworks and Bodyworks 2 both deal with how the human body functions, and both have strong anti smoking and anti substance abuse messages. Bodyworks uses large, three dimensional, cartoon like blow ups of various internal organs, replete with faces and moving eyes to teach about the workings of the heart, liver and kidneys, and, in the process,
delivers a strong anti smoking and anti drug message. It’s hard to argue when “Hillary the Heart” is telling you why you shouldn’t smoke.
Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN
