This resource outlines the recommended behavioral steps that can be used to manage one's anger. Several activities are provided to give students practice in these behavioral skills.
This resource discusses communication skills, focusing on active listening as a way to promote healthy relationships. Several activities are provided to give students practice in these behavioral skills.
This activity outlines strategies for avoiding date rape. Students will work in small groups to review scenarios and identify the behaviors of both the male and female in the scenario that might make the situation a risky one.
This resource outlines the essential components of an effective refusal or NO statement, especially as related to unwanted sexual advances or risky situations. Teaching tips for introducing and demonstrating this topic in the classroom are also included.
Your smile is one of the first things people notice about you so you should do your best to take care of it! The best part is that it?s easy to do. Good oral hygiene can keep cavities and gum disease at bay, while keeping your mouth and teeth looking, feeling, and smelling their best. This resource challenges the students to choose the items that would help give them a great smile and need to be on their bathroom counter.
Tobacco use can lead to tobacco/nicotine dependence and serious health problems. Cessation can significantly reduce the risk of suffering from smoking-related diseases. Tobacco/nicotine dependence is a chronic condition that often requires repeated interventions, but effective treatments and helpful resources exist. Smokers can and do quit smoking. In fact, today there are more former smokers than current smokers. This resource provides information on smoking cessation.
In 2012, the Surgeon General concluded that there is a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and smoking initiation among young people. This resource provides details of these findings and the conclusions of the effects on our youth.
In this lesson, students simulate disease transmission in vaccinated and unvaccinated communities and then research vaccine-preventable diseases. They analyze indirect and direct costs associated with the immediate and long-term effects of the decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. In groups, students create an interactive project that includes a cost analysis and other research to increase awareness of vaccine-preventable diseases and their potential resurgence.
This resource provides information to help students understand how to maintain their health and prevent sickness by learning to wash their hands properly.
This article discusses the crisis of youth violence and how youth violence is preventable.
This article discusses Maria's story and how she includes physical activity in her daily life.
This article discusses suicide prevention. Suicide is a serious public health problem that can have lasting harmful effects on individuals, families, and communities. While its causes are complex and determined by multiple factors, the goal of suicide prevention is simple: Reduce factors that increase risk (i.e. risk factors) and increase factors that promote resilience (i.e. protective factors). Ideally, prevention addresses all levels of influence: individual, relationship, community, and societal. Effective prevention strategies are needed to promote awareness of suicide and encourage a commitment to social change.
It's key to get outside and get active ? just make sure you're protected! For outdoor activity, you may need a helmet, a ball, a club... You always need sun protection ? it's just another part of your gear!
This article provides information to help students understand the importance of water safety.
This article discusses a few easy steps to protect yourself and others from germs when swimming.
In this lesson, students explain how sexual messages from TV may contribute to teen pregnancy and identify strategies to prevent being negatively influenced by TV's sexual messages.
In this lesson, students will collect soil, water, and paint chip samples from their homes and use a qualitative precipitate laboratory to locate geographic lead hot spots, correlated with the historic construction of building episodes in their community. Associated with this lesson will be the construction of a word wall detailing the physiological effects of prolonged exposure to inorganic lead, culminating in a writing assignment outlining a fictional case study of a child afflicted with lead poisoning.
In this lesson students will be able to describe how STIs are transmitted, the types of symptoms STIs produce, the importance of seeking treatment for STIs, how to prevent getting an STI and what to do if they get an STI.
The percentage of teens in high school who drink and drive has decreased by more than half since 1991,* but more can be done. Nearly one million high school teens drank alcohol and got behind the wheel in 2011. Teen drivers are 3 times more likely than more experienced drivers to be in a fatal crash. Drinking any alcohol greatly increases this risk for teens. This resource provides detailed information on teen drinking and driving across the nation.
This document was prepared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the direction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Of?ce on Smoking and Health, in response to a growing interest in telephone-based tobacco cessation services commonly known as quitlines. It is intended to help state health departments, health care organizations, and employers to contract for and monitor telephone-based tobacco cessation services. It is also intended to help states, health care organizations, and quitline operators enhance existing quitline services, and to inform those who are interested in learning more about population-based approaches to tobacco cessation.