This lesson plan includes activites that will encourage students to think critically about online safety.
This set of activities will help students learn to recognize and respond to positive and negative peer pressure.
This fire safety resource is designed to teach middle school students how to plan and regularly practice, with their families, an escape from their home. The resource include pre-test and post-test assessments.
In this lesson students will identify a variety of fruits and vegetables they can eat for a snack.
This article provides information to help students understand easy ways to reduce pollution and protect the environment.
Students will describe effective coping strategies for dealing with personal loss, explain how a strong system of values can help you cope with problems that occur during the teen years and later in life, and identify resources within the school and community that teens can turn to when they need help with a problem.
Skateboard with Matt through this animated quiz on peer pressure! Get the questions right and check out Matt perform some cool tricks on his skateboard. After playing the quiz read the article on how to handle peer pressure.
This article discusses the growing crisis of chronic disease in the US.
Students learn about the dangers of guns. By now, you probably know what guns are and what can happen if they fall into the wrong hands. Even though guns are featured in many television shows, video games, computer games, and movies, it's important to know that real guns are dangerous. Guns are so dangerous that they can hurt or even kill someone you know, including other kids.
This resource provides information concerning children and gun safety.
This article provides information concerning ways to keep children save from guns.
What do surfing, fishing, water skiing, and swimming have in common? They are all lots of fun...and they all take place in, on, or around the water! Water activities are a great way to stay cool and have a good time with your friends or your family. Take along these tips ? and your common sense ? to get wet, make waves, and have a blast!
In this activity students will work as a team and learn how drug use can lead to dangerous behaviors that may result in contracting the HIV virus.
This is a quiz to assess what students learned from the HIV, Aids, and Drug Use activity.
This resource provides information to help students understand the risk of HIV among youth.
The risk for HIV for most youth begins when they start having sex or start injecting drugs. HIV causes a serious infection that, without treatment, leads to AIDS and early death. All youth should know how HIV is transmitted and prevented, understand what puts them at risk for HIV, and be tested if they are at risk. This article provides information on how HIV affects youth in the United States.
Students will discuss the health and monetary impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on individuals and society, explore ways in which health education can help reduce the number of cases of HIV and AIDS infection, and apply the reading skill of separating fact from opinion to an op-ed essay on the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Students will describe how daily health practices make a difference in their appearance, health, and feeling of well being, and list several common childhood communicable diseases and methods of prevention.
This resource provides information to help students understand how to properly wash their hands to help prevent germs and sickness.
In this lesson, students research fruits and vegetables and then create a journal that provides a summary of each one.