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A Healthy Retirement?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Do men and women experience heart disease the same way? High school and college-level biologists examine a case study about a woman, Nancy, who is experiencing intermittent health issues; looking at her diet, exercise, and lifestyle...
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Reproduction, Day 2: Pregnancy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify pictures of women labeling them pregnant or not pregnant. They discover what happens inside a woman when she is pregnant. They explain the relationship bettwen intercourse, fertilization and parenthood.
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Gender Roles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss gender roles and through case study, examine how gender roles can be learned and how they can be limiting. They research to find the names of both men and women who have become successful in various careers.
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Reproductive Health: Friendship, Marriage, Sex

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners contrast friendships, dating, love, marriage and parenting, describe the reproductive systems and related disease prevention and define conception, contraception, abortion and pregnancy.
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Dangerous Situations

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils identify trusted adults and learn how to respond to dangerous situations
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What Does Advertising Say About Smoking?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine tobacco advertisements.  In this smoking advertisements lesson, students read old magazine or newspaper ads to determine their purpose and influence.  Students also discuss how to make responsible health decisions and...
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Feature Column: Virtual Field Trips

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover ways to stay healthy by utilizing Internet education software.  In this computer technology lesson plan, students investigate Internet programs that simulate a field trip by showing images and video.  Students...
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Relationships, Day 3: Families

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine roles of family members and why families are important. They view magazine pictures and define family, describe their own families, draw a picture or diagram of their family, and pair pictures of family members to their...
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Dress Reform in the 19th Century

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Timothy Shay Arthur and others to explore mid to late 19th century dress reform. They use their findings to write a letter to an editor from a 19th century viewpoint.
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Dying to be Thin

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students role-play scenarios in which they encounter a friend or acquaintance who may have an eating disorder and brainstorm ways to help the friend. They create informational brochures with information about eating disorder prevention.
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Who's at Risk?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are asked what do they comprehend about HIV, such as: how does it get transmitted, and what happens to the body once someone contracts the virus. They discuss ways that people can avoid getting and spreading AIDS. Students...
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Understanding and Avoiding HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students begin the lesson by discussing what they already know about their immune system. In groups, they participate in a true and false game using the facts and myths of HIV/AIDS. They discuss how the disease is affecting their country...
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Deadly Desires

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A lesson plan on STD's captures learners with shocking statistics. Small groups create informational brochures on specific STD's, which they will present to the class. The links for research are overall excellent, but should be previewed...
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Fertile Minds

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the cultural phenomenon of older mothers. In this current events activity, students visit selected websites to learn about reproduction, IVF, and cultural changes that have prompted some women to give birth later in life.
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Self-Assessment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a personal inventory about behaviors. They determine if there are risky behaviors present that could be harmful. The inventory is used to help students examine how to make healthy decisions.
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Ideal Weight, Cultural Stereotypes, and Eating Disorders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the societal stigma that accompanies people who are overweight. In addition, students research current medical thinking on "ideal weight" and identify how the perception of body image can lead to eating disorders.
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Underweight Canadians

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore body mass index, calculate theirs, compare theirs to Canadian guidelines, and discuss possible reasons for being underweight.
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WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine different food groups and identify the daily amounts of each that are necessary for healthy eating.  In this food pyramid lesson students evaluate their own diets and see how they can eat more nutritiously. 
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observes how drinking alcohol while pregnant affects the placenta with a simulation.
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Self-Image: The Fantasy, The Reality

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the issue of body image and the media. They watch and discuss a video, identify ads with unrealistic images, write a letter to the magazine, develop a timeline of changing body types, and conduct research.
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Road Safety - Communication and Understanding What's on Board

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders apply math formulas to explore the truck driving career. In this math lesson, 10th graders explore websites about road safety and truck driving spills. Students view a PowerPoint about safety placards and exercises.
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Breakfast Boosts Brainpower

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students examine the importance of eating a balanced breakfast.  In this healthy eating lesson students identify examples of a healthy breakfast and compare the characteristics of people who do or do not eat breakfast.
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Pregnancy, Day 2

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to explanations of what can go wrong in pregnancy and why problems arise. They complete worksheets and define terminology.
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Understanding the Body: Day 2, Puberty

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Everyone needs to know what to expect when going through puberty. Intended for a special education class, this well developed and developmentaly appropriate resource provides a full days instruction on teaching teens with special needs...

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