These activities will help your students identify potentially explosive scenarios, and
develop strategies for dealing with them.
Students will: 1. Identify common sources of health/nutrition misinformation. 2. Identify at least three characteristics of quality health/nutrition information. 3. Cite an example of health/nutrition information found on MedlinePlus that is of interest to them or a family member.
This resource provides emergency procedures including visual examples of what to when someone is choking.
In this lesson, students will predict possible consequences of substance use and analyze how social messages regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco/nicotine and other drugs may misrepresent the negative effects of each.
This article includes information concerning asthma and how the chronic illness affects students in school.
In this lesson, students realize some of the costs and rewards of parenting.
In this lesson students will identify key health problems related to smoking, differentiate between primary and secondary smoke describe how the tobacco companies are misleading in their advertising.
In this lesson, students learn about the basic food groups and healthy snacks.
In this lesson students will learn about cross-contamination of food, why it is dangerous, and how to avoid it.
This lesson allows students to explore the concept of competition versus collaboration and to begin to understand that conflicts are easier to manage when the people in conflict work together, trust one another, and strive to maintain their relationship. This is true in interpersonal conflicts, but also in inter-group and international conflicts.
This resource provides information about why some teens want to hurt themselves and how to recognize the signs of self- injury.
This is an interactive resource that show the parts of the heart, how the heart works, and offers many facts about the heart.
Students will learn about and discuss the legal aspects of cyberbullying.
In this lesson activity students will learn about the dangers of inhalant use and how using inhalants damages the body.
This resource provides information to help students learn about dating and how to maintain healthy relationships.
Students will learn about the functions and purposes of responsible dating including dating behaviors, values, responsibilities and refusal skills.
Students will be given a list of dating violence information Web sites and a blank "Dating Violence Crossword." They are to complete the crossword by finding the answers within the various Web sites, then use their new undestanding to plan a schoolwide Dating Violence Awareness campaign.
Students are first introduced to the key concepts surrounding teen dating violence. Their challenge will be to design and publish a Web site for other teens to find information on the subject. The class can be divided into teams, with each team being responsible for a section of the Web site.
Students recognize, understand and solve the problem of bullying. Bullying is a big problem. It can make kids feel hurt, scared, sick, lonely, embarrassed and sad. Bullies might hit, kick, or push to hurt people, or use words to call names, threaten, tease, or scare them. A bully might say mean things about someone, grab a kid's stuff, make fun of someone, or leave a kid out of the group on purpose. Some bullies threaten people or try to make them do things they don't want to do.
Students will learn about how to make the right choices when dealing with peer pressure. "Come on! ALL of us are cutting math. Who wants to go take that quiz? We're going to take a walk and get lunch instead. Let's go!" says the coolest kid in your class. Do you do what you know is right and go to math class, quiz and all? Or do you give in and go with them?