Four activities with facilitator notes and discussion outline.
- Subject:
- Health
- Healthful Living
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Purdue University
- Date Added:
- 01/03/2018
Four activities with facilitator notes and discussion outline.
Students will be introduced to the colon and the relationship it has with the body. Students will learn the process of digestion, the process of the colon, and why fiber is necessary for a healthy diet and a healthy colon.
This resource provides tips for healthy grocery shopping and provides a shopping list.
This article provides tips on how to practice healthy habits to prevent the spread of germs and infectious diseases.
In this lesson, students learn the right way to brush their teeth and why its important to keep them clean.
Students should be able to define "healthy eating", identify the parts of a healthy lifestyle (physical activity and healthy eating) and name some of each that they enjoy, state why healthy foods and exercise are important to keep bodies healthy and feeling good, and identify one healthy lifestyle change they can make and pledge to adopt it.
Healthy relationships thrive on respect, kindness, and trust. Unhealthy ones rely on an imbalance of power that's maintained through the use of controlling behaviors, emotional abuse, or physical aggression. Sadly, 1 in 11 high school students report being physically hurt by a date. Help your students learn to recognize and protect themselves from unhealthy relationships and dating abuse with the following discussion questions and activities.
This resource provides tips for healthy snacking and provides tips on healthy snacking.
Some teens have a hard time knowing what a healthy weight is, this resource provides information that will help students understand what having a healthy weight means.
This resource provides information to help students and their families stay healthy and active.
Students will listen to and read lyrics from popular songs that explore themes of self-esteem, body image, and eating disorders. The song interpretations will serve as a jumping-off point to deeper discussion on the issues, culminating in a writing exercise.
In this lesson, students will measure their heart rates after a variety of physical activities and compare the results with their resting heart rates, and with the heart rates of other students in their groups.
In this activity, students learn how to measure their breathing and pulse rate, and explore the impact of exercise on their measurements.
Students gain an understanding of the reasons for increased heat risks in urban desert environments, differentiate among heat-related health issues (heat stroke, heat exhaustion), and follow the correct emergency response to scenarios of heat-related health issues.
This article provides information on how to prevent heat exhaustion during athletic activities.
This article explains how to prepare to safely exercise outdoors in hot weather.
This video teaches students the importance of wearing a helmet and how to make sure your helmet fits properly.
Students will understand the sources of healthy foods.
This resource provides coping strategies to help students cope with stress.
This article explains how to recognize stress and its symptoms in children. The article also offers ways to help children cope with stress.