Article about the effects of sun exposure and the importance of protection.
This is a chart used to check students understanding of the different elbow injuries. How does the injury present, how is it diagnosed and what are the treatments for the different injjuries.
Students will describe the impact of emotions on a person's mental and physical health, recognize that feelings and emotions are neither good nor bad, and that how we deal with them has a direct impact on our health, and explain how learning to set realistic goals is an important developmental task on the road to maturity.
These activities will help
your students explore how to reach out to others, in words and actions.
Article on boosting your endurance
This resource discusses energy management and ways to ensure the body maintains appropriate energy levels for athletic performance.
Students will discuss the relationship among energy intake, energy expenditure and body
weight, explain the importance of aiming for a healthy weight, identify health concerns related to sedentary lifestyles, and state at least two benefits of daily physical activity.
This is a supplemental presentation to be used with the Energy Balance lesson plan.
This is an interactive tool where students can input food choices and exercise choices and see how much exercise must be done in order to burn off the calories and fat from their food choice.
This article pertains to the use of energy drinks amond teens. Loaded with caffeine and sugar, and often laced with herbs, vitamins or amino acids, they have become the fuel of choice for some thrill-seeking youngsters and, more recently, for weary adults navigating an always-on world. The author examines the hidden dangers behind drinking energy drinks.
This video presentation describes local and global environmental problems and how these problems can impact human health.
In this activity, students choose a positive behavior, such as how to be a good friend, to illustrate on a poster.
In this lesson stuents will design and implement a study of local seat belt use and compare the results to national statistics.
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the importance of planning and practicing a safe escape plan in case of a fire at home.
This tutorial teaches how to evaluation health information that is found on the Web.
Students evaluate sources of identity and use a variety of tools to evaluate sources for bias and accuracy.
This is a supplemental article that discusses puberty. The following topics are covered: ?More Than a Funny Word ?Time to Change ?It Doesn't Hurt . . . It's Just a Growth Spurt ?Taking Shape ?Hair, Hair, Everywhere ?About Face ?Putting the P.U. in Puberty ?There's More? ?Change Can Feel Kind of Strange ?Developing Differently
Students will describe physical, mental, and social health benefits of regular exercise, identify ways in which they can make physical activity a regular part of their life, and apply the media literacy skill of recognizing a message's point of view to an article advocating the benefits of exercise for teens.
Students learn what muscles are and how to warm them up before exercising and learn why warming up is important.
This article discusses how to prevent heat-related deaths and injuries during activities outside.