Learning about the messages behind the ads will help you understand the differences between real vs. ideal and know the truth will help you craft a positive self-image! This resource helps students understand that advertisements may not always be reliable.

Students will discuss strategies for toning muscles and controlling weight, recognize claims for weight-loss and exercise devices that are too good to be true, and apply the media literacy skill of recognizing propaganda (loaded language) to a print ad for an abdominal toning device.

Students will describe the challenge during adolescence to gain peer acceptance while developing one's sense of self, recognize the influence that peers and the media have on personal choices during the teen years, and identify physical and emotional changes that occur during adolescence and describe their impact on relationships within the family.

These video cartoons illustrate 5 e-safety SMART rules and include a real life SMART Crew of young people, who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, and help them make safe online decisions. Chapter 1 focuses on what type of digital emails should be accepted, Chapter 2 focuses on reliable information, Chapter 3 focuses on keeping information safe, Chapter 4 focuses on telling on cyberbullies, and Chapter 5 focuses on being careful when meeting online friends. The cartoon video can be viewed in 5 chapter lessons or downloaded as an entire/whole video which is about 19 minutes. Excellent for students between 7 and 12 years of age.

This is an activity in which the students answer questions about advertisements such as what product is being advertised, who is in the advertisement, is the advertisement healthy in nature, and who might be influenced by the advertisement.

Advertising is one of the most powerful forces shaping our ideas, culture, and behavior today. To help students become smart shoppers, this lesson teaches students to critically examine advertisements and identify the underlying messages they convey. Students are given the opportunity to express their creativity by developing their own advertising campaign.

The cultural definitions of beer, liquor, drinking, and drunkenness are complex and often positive. As your students form their own interpretations of alcohol and make decisions, you can increase their understanding of the substance, its health effects, and the cultural influences around them. The discussion guide includes discussion questions and student activities.

In this lesson, students will identify the effects of alcohol on body organs and on performance, as well as identifying reasons for not using alcohol.

There is no known safe amount of alcohol to drink while pregnant. There is also no safe time during pregnancy to drink and no safe kind of alcohol. CDC urges pregnant women not to drink alcohol any time during pregnancy. Women also should not drink alcohol if they are planning to become pregnant or are sexually active and do not use effective birth control. This is because a woman could become pregnant and not know for several weeks or more. In the United States half of all pregnancies are unplanned. FASDs are 100% preventable. If a woman doesn't drink alcohol while she is pregnant, her child cannot have an FASD.

Students will identify the benefits of physical activity, state the recommended amount of daily physical activity, and identify the different types of physical activity and their benefits.

This is an interactive resource in which the students learn about the systems of the body including the respiratory system.

In this lesson students will recognize the importance of eating a variety of foods for breakfast.

This is a supplemental story to be used in conjunction with the Stress and Communication lesson plan. The story is about how a young girl reaches out to her mother for help.

This resource provides information about asthma facts including who is at greatest risk for asthma, stages of asthma, and what is being done to help people with asthma.