This article discusses ways that students can make healthy food choices.
If you like recreational activities that involve wheels, concrete or asphalt, then protect your brain by wearing a helmet.
Students will become aware of the harmful effects of acid rain.
This resource discusses the harmful effects of alochol use and discusses binge drinking.
Many fast food restaurants are offering more healthier choices, but it is not always easy to identify them. This lesson offers simple tips for cutting back on the fat and saturated fat in fast food meals while reinforcing the idea that teens can have it their way?a healthier way?when ordering fast food.
This resource provides information to help students understand body image and self-esteem.
This resource provides information to help students stay safe including what they need to do to be safe at a party, what they need to do when someone offers them alcohol or drugs, how they can make a safety plan for different social situations, what they need to do when walking in a strange neighborhood, and how to protect themselves around strangers.
Unit with lesson on how to avoid head lice by not sharing hats, combs or other personal items.
Students will learn how to avoid getting head lice.
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.
This article provides information to help students understand the dangers of air pollution to their health.
This article provides information to help students understand that some chemicals found in medicines and household products can be poisonous and how they can protect themselves from the dangers of these chemicals.
Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. This article provides an overview of the serious health consequences brought on by secondhand smoke.
Article on health effects of UV radiation
Article on health effects of water pollution
This resource provides information to help students understand the effects of too much sun including skin cancer, early aging of the skin, and problems with the immune system.
Article on the depletion of the ozone layer
In this lesson student will learn how to talk and ask about health and sickness.
This resource discusses the top 5 sports nutrition myths.
Students will discuss their usual beverage choices and read a food label and interpret the nutrition information in regard to beverages.