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Create a Healthy Calendar

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Health nuts create a month-long calendar presenting health-themed pictures, tips, or facts in each day's box. Rather than just a project, you could raise the required number of health facts and use this as a unique assessment of...
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A "Moment" of Unprotected Sex Leads to HPV

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In a health class, participants read a story about a young woman who contacted HPV. The story is not included in the lesson plan, but is easily located on the Internet. The teacher then describes different scenarios for individuals to...
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Cardiac Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students look for the connections needed to attain the knowledge of cardiac function. The sheet includes the background information.
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Circulatory System

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students examine the human body and make mental connections to the target function highlighted in the sheet.
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Using The Anatomy and Physiology Place

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this health worksheet, students register for the use of a website that accompanies a textbook for the class of Anatomy and Physiology.
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Sportsmanship: Applauding Sportsmanship

For Students 9th - 12th
In this personal health worksheet, students consider good sportsmanship as they read an assigned article and respond to three short answer questions.
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Asking for Help

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students practice asking for help. In this personal health lesson, students role play scenarios that require them to solicit and accept help in particular situations.
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Stuff Can - Situations That Undermine Feeling Fantastic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While more an idea than a lesson, this activity is a terrific way to discuss emotional health in your classroom. Learners are given a container in which they place slips of paper with descriptions of difficult situations (Situations That...
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Why Do We Need Exercise?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Discuss the importance of exercise with your middle schoolers using this PowerPoint. Actively engage them by surveying how they spend their free time and explain many benefits of physical activity. Learners consider what they did over...
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Healthy Eating: Vitamins

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The first five slides contain photographs of foods containing each of the major vitamins: A, B, C, D, and E. Then there is a slide explaining each of the three macro nutrients. The final slide is a low-quality graphic of the food...
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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Review the various ways kids can eat, move, and live to be healthy. They brainstorm lists of exercises, foods, and habits that promote personal health. A good resource to complement a more in-depth lesson.
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Drugs

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Smoking, alcohol, drugs, and solvents are the topic of this informational presentation. The causes, effects, and health issues that arise from illicit drug use are all covered. While this appears to be a learner-driven presentation, it...
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Your Motivation and Goal Setting Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
Set your health and fitness goals the write way! With this journaling learning exercise, your class will determine health and fitness goals specific to their individual needs, consider why and how they will work to achieve their goals,...
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Risk Behavior: HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Bring to life the health risks of unsafe sex and drug use. Participants are involved in a simulation they don't understand until the end. One pupil is "in the know", secretly playing the role of being HIV-positive. Everyone else...
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Physical Activity Can Reduce Your Stress

For Teachers 4th
Identify sources of stress in your students' everyday lives. They are introduced to ways in which they can relieve stress and consider the value of physical activity in overall health.
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HIV Prevention

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in critical thinking skills about personal health and safety to prevent the acquiring of the HIV disease. The project is an extension of this thinking designed for students to think about all the different ways...
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Food Pyramid Abacus

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners investigate the Food Pyramid by constructing a creative project known as a Food Pyramid Abacus. They correlate the color beads withe each food group and the number of recommended servings from each. The abacus is a learning tool...
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Simply Salad Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of healthy fruits and vegetables. They conduct an information search to list the health benefits of eating vegetables. Students use the information in order to create drawings based around the theme of...
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Nervous System and Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health activity, students complete the crossword puzzle based upon the theme of the nervous system and its interaction with the senses.
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Vote on Disposal Options for Hazardous Household Products

For Students 4th - 6th
For this health worksheet, students realize that hazardous household products present special disposal challenges. Students view 11 images on an overhead projector and vote (thumbs up, thumbs down) on whether the disposal option is a...
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Dying to Look Good!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this health worksheet, pupils examine how people have done unhealthy things to their skin in order to look fashionable. Students read about Elizabethan women putting toxins on their skin to make themselves pale. Then pupils read about...
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Background of Diseases-- Germs or Genes?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the background of common diseases. For this personal health lesson, students research causative agents of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Students use their research findings to create data tables in...
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Water in Africa

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discover the horrible situation of water shortages that many people face by completing Peace Corps activities.  In this global health lesson, students analyze and discuss photographs of people in Africa struggling to find...
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All About Me: Measuring Height and Weight

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students take personal fitness inventories. In this personal health instructional activity, students take measurements of their heights and weights. Students record the data, calculate their BMI, and then chart their physical activity.

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