ABSTRACT

In high school, discussions about 'work' and 'making money' and 'success' and 'postpubescence'; these were the overarching concerns above and beyond the academic ones. This chapter discusses what the children should know about health while they are in middle school and high school so that they can galvanize their understandings of proper health by the time they graduate. Accordingly, by the time students reached high school, they would have been well versed in critical thinking (CT) and it would have become regular fare. The use of the 'little boxes', admittedly itself a skill, serves to distract students from the learning they are charged to achieve. As in all cases of project-based learning, there is writing about what the student learned, either a technical piece or an essay on the wonders of bicycling. Children learn much more than the physical characteristics of bicycles; they learn how to cooperate and to interact with other students, customers and adult mentors.