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Healthy Decision Making Towards Alcohol and Tobacco Use

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine and demonstrate refusal skills of smoking and drinking alcohol. They take a quiz, identify alternative activities to smoking and drinking, write a journal entry, and design an anti-smoking and anti-alcohol ad.
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Family Life Cycle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the food groups and their placement on the food pyramid. Using the internet, they research the nutritional guidelines for different age groups and compare them. To end the instructional activity, they identify reasons...
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EMOTIONS AND GENDER EQUITY

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students discuss emotions and decide as a group which emotions are O.K. for males/females. They discuss solutions to gender bias in terms of the different emotions and write a reflective essay about what they learn from the discussion.
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Learning to Love

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
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Mathematics Through Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students plan a meal including shopping, preparing and meal and serving it. They become aware of different foods from different ethnic backgrounds and describe the displays in the store and why the items are displayed as they are.
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AIDS and Adolescence

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the relationship between AIDS and teenagers. In groups, they discuss the various issues educators face in introducing the topic to teenagers in school. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the misconceptions they...
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Senses, Spaces And Structure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop greater ease with their bodies and their personal environments. They extend body space into its immediate architectural boundaries and draw a simple yet detailed floor plan of a physical space or structure (bedroom,...
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Teaching Human Sexuality in the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the social problem of teenage mothers. In groups, they examine the consequences of a teenage pregnancy and how it can be considered a breakdown in family structure. They discuss the physical changes during...
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The Choice -- Abortion

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the options when finding out they are pregnant in middle school or high school. In groups, they research the history of abortion along with the complications that can arise. As a class, they discuss the reasons why the...
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Guidelines for Sexual Health Information and Disease Prevention

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe effective sex education and its outcomes. They provide a tool for educators, policy-makers and others to evaluate existing or new programs, curricula or policies. Students comprehend that sex education refers both to...
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An STI's Tale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars describe two risk factors for becoming infected with genital herpes after reading the provided literature. They identify three symptoms of genital herpes and create a list of ways the transmission of herpes can be prevented.
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Quit Smoking-Together We Can Do It!

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore how tobacco threatens the health of smokers and non-smokers. They research smoking and second hand smoke using the Internet. Students create a Quit Smoking brochure. They present a computer slide show to describe how...
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Dietary Allowances Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health learning exercise, students read the dietary allowances and use them to create a healthier personal lifestyle. The chart includes boys and girls statistics.
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Youth Gambling Addiction

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students demonstrate how to say no to gambling. In this addiction prevention lesson, students define gambling and categories of gamblers, then practice saying no to gambling. Then, students work in small groups to role-play a gambling...
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The Changes of Puberty

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study about the changes of puberty for boys and girls. In this health lesson, students study how the body changes during puberty and make a presentation about a significant change that can take place during puberty and how to...
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Personal Food Diary Analysis

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students keep a food diary for a day and examine the calories, and nutrient intakes.  For this food diary lesson students complete several activities including a food diary analysis. 
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Baseball Cards

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars read a short story on baseball cards and reflect on Honus Wagner's decision to withdraw his card. In this baseball cards lesson plan, students study how children used cards in the 1930's and express their understanding of...
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INFUSING EQUITY BY GENDER INTO THE CLASSROOM:A Handbook of Classroom Practices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination impacts their lives.  Students examine behaviors they believe are acceptable for males and females and will compose an essay based on their findings. 
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Nutrition (Weight Management)

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore nutrition and the effect it has by participating in class discussions.  In this diet and exercise lesson, 7th graders analyze print advertisements and discuss how unrealistic their expectations are and how false...
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What's so hard about saying no? Refusal Skills Role-Playing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice refusal skills to cope with peer pressure. For this refusal skill lesson, students work in groups to create their own skit about pressure to use tobacco. They show how they can use the 7 refusal skills taught on the Dig...
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Self Esteem: The IALAC Story

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of self-esteem and listen to a story.  In this IALAC (I am lovable and capable) story lesson, students examine the impact that certain life events have on a person's developing self-esteem. Learners respond...
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Dollar Value and Fast-Food Nutrition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how they can make changes to form healthy eating habits.  In this investigative activity students examine food guidelines and the food pyramid. 
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TSI: Teen Science Investigations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read an article about a research conducted on teen brain decision making. In this health science instructional activity, students identify the steps in the scientific method. They discuss how this research can benefit them when...
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Tobacco Addiction and Secondhand Smoke

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students brainstorm why tobacco is addicting. For this health science lesson, students discuss the harmful effects of smoking. They read an article and complete a worksheet at the end of the lesson.

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