Chapter 5 - A Healthy School Environment
1.  What are the essential functions of a healthy school environment?
2.  What aspect of the physical plant accounts for the largest percentage of student injuries at school?
3.  What kinds of data could be collected to assess & monitor the school environment?
4.  Distinguish between the physical and psychosocial environments and give at least three examples of each.
5.  How do policies and expectations of students determine environment?

Chapter 6 - Physical Education
1.  What statistics verify the decline in daily physical education and vigorous physical activity among adolescents?  Why is less activity among our youth of special concern?
2.  According to Healthy People 2000 objectives, what is the target for the proportion of school physical education class time that students should spend being physically active?
3.  The essential functions of physical education are the same as the national standards for physical education.  What are the seven functions/standards?
4.  What reasons rank highest for why adolescents participate in organized sports?
5.  What is NASPE and what landmark physical education documents has it produced?
6.  Read the action steps for schools on pp. 131-133 carefully.  How does this description of physical education, differ from the traditional view or perhaps your experience and/or training about what a physical education class should teach?

Chapter 7 - School Counseling, Psychological and Social Services
1.  What percentage of students will suffer from a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder?
2.  Many of these problems exist before the students enter kindergarten and are associated with what?
3.  Interventions typically involve one or more of six different activities.  What are they?
4.  What professional to student ratios document the decline in counseling, psychological and social services?
5.  Distinguish between school-linked and school-based services and give examples.
6.  The programmatic concerns of this component are also the areas that the action steps for schools section recommends be mapped and analyzed.  What are they?

Chapter 8 - School Health Services
1.  What responsibilities of the school health nurse are described in the opening case study?  How do these compare with the essential functions?
2.  What percentage of school districts have someone responsible for coordinating school health services?
3.  What types of professionals are most likely to deliver student services?
4.  The National Association of School Nurses recommends a nurse to student ratio of 1:750.  What percentage of junior/senior high schools meet this recommendation?
5.  Distinguish between core, core plus, school-based and school-linked services.
6.  How many school districts have made the effort to conduct a needs assessment and design their school health services?
7.  What is the School Health Finance Project?