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Smooth Sailing: Exploring Insurance and Estate Planning

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While purchasing insurance and estate planning may seem like a rather irrelevant topic for high school students, introducing this concept now can help your learners develop a solid foundation of financial literacy that will...
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What's Up with Mindfulness

For Teachers 9th
Mindfulness is all about paying attention to the present. Introduce freshmen to a stress-reducing tool that helps them pay close attention to what is happening, choose their behavior, and respond. Learners use a timeline to track their...
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What Is Mindfulness?

For Teachers 9th
Stop. Breathe. Think. A richly detailed activity on mindfulness introduces freshmen to meditation as a coping strategy to deal with stress.
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Suicide Prevention - Finding the Words

For Teachers 9th
Acknowledge, Care, Tell! Freshmen learn how to ACT to help a friend demonstrating warning signs for depression and suicide in a carefully scaffolded, scripted lesson. Scholars also learn positive coping skills, information about support...
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Stressed Out

For Teachers 8th
Stress, eustress, distress. A step-by-step plan leads middle schoolers through a lesson about coping with stress. To gather background information, scholars watch a presentation, examine a list of positive coping skills, and read...
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Health Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore, study and discuss ways to help others to cope with loss and grief after the aftermath of violence. They discuss how personal experiences of loss and grief can affect survivors. Each student writes their reflections in...
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Here's to Your Healthy Heart: Heart Rate Record Work Sheet

For Students 5th - 12th
In this heart rate record work sheet, students record their pulse rate after completing different levels of exercise. Students record their hear rate after walking, doing jumping jacks and running at one minute intervals.
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Safe Food: It's Your Job Too!: Health

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students get an overview of the importance of food safety and become familiar with common foodborne pathogens.
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Health: Seat Belt Safety

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the importance of wearing seat belts and why it is one of the most common causes of traffic accident deaths. They also discover the importance of child restraints for younger children. Students examine the myths and...
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Health Problem Series: Asthma

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this respiratory activity, students trace the path of air as you inhale and exhale with different colored pencils on a diagram of the human respiratory system.
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Personal Health Series-Food Safety

For Students 6th - 8th
In this food chain worksheet, students read about 2 flowcharts showing the route of an apple from an orchard to a lunch bag and of salmon from water to a dinner table. Students list the potential food risks at each stage of the flowchart...
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Brain Health & Brain Anatomy

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study possible causes of dementia.  In this brain analysis lesson plan students participate in several activities about dementia. 
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences lesson, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant.   Learners role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.  
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Key to Good Health #1: Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn tips for healthy eating. In this nutrition lesson, students learn about the four main food groups, view a food pyramid, and get tips on how to get the most nutrition out of their meals. Students also learning about eating...
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Smoking: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the pros and cons of smoking.  In this smoking instructional activity, students navigate websites to find information on smoking and then participate in a discussion with specific discussion questions.
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Reproduction, Day 3: Parenthood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teenagers explain the process from making the decision to have a baby to parenthood. They identify the positive and negative aspects of parenting. In small groups, they browse catalogs of baby equipment and evaluate the cost of...
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Water Quality with Samples

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners recognize whether one wants to drink water, swim in it, or for the health of the organisms living in it. They prepare different water samples to observe and collect samples regarding the water quality.
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What's Wrong?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze case studies to explore similarities and differences among illnesses. PET images are examined to explore how scientists investigate the changes in the way the brain functions during depression.
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How Does Blood Circulate?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the path of their blood through their heart and body.  In this heart lesson, 5th graders recognize that blood travels in one direction through arteries and one through veins. Students complete worksheet...
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Circulatory Circles

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate the circulatory system. For this circulatory system lesson, students complete a WebQuest and explore all the areas of the heart. Students determine the functions of different parts of the circulatory system and...
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Treatments for Characters' Problems

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research treatments for problems associated with specific characters.  For this online research lesson, students use kid-friendly search engines to find information that will help a character from Charlie and the Chocolate...
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Health - Respiration

For Teachers 4th
Here is an interesting and engaging lesson on the lungs and the respiratory system. In it, fourth graders should gain a better understanding of how the lungs work and the role they play in supporting life. Some good, in-class partner...
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ALZHEIMERS WORDSEARCH

For Students 9th - 12th
For this health worksheet, high schoolers look for the words that are related to the health of patients with Alzheimer's disease and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Hackers Tale

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, high schoolers find the words that are related to not smoking and maintaining the health of one's lungs. The answers to the word search are found at the bottom of the page.

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