Students will plan a healthy lunch using MyPlate recomendations. Students will also identify which foods belong in each food group.
In this lesson students will recognize the importance of eating a variety of foods for breakfast.
This is an assessment that will test what students know about drug abuse. It can be used to teach abou the myths and misconceptions about drug abuse, addiction, and the dangers of drugs.
This resource provides information on the National Tobacco Control Program. It also includes an interactive resource map of each state, which supplies information on what each state across the country is doing concerning the use of tobacco.
This article discusses how the HPV vaccine may be helping lower HPV infection rates in teen girls.
In this activity, students learn about poison and how it gets into the body. Students also identify pictures of items that contain poisons. The activity is located on page 4 of the pdf.
In this lesson students will learn about the ingredients and dangers of nicotine use.
In this lesson students will research the amount of sleep the average night shift worker loses per year, investigate what happens to your body when you don't get enough sleep, describe safety risks this can cause, and describe current debates on the amount of sleep humans need.
The short video No Human Being Was Born Illegal is explored through teaching strategies such as pre-viewing, think-pair-share, word walls/clouds, levels of questions and fishbowl. By learning about the social activism of the students in the video, students may think more deeply about the issues facing their own communities.
This is a supplemental video that should be used with the "No Human Was Born Illegal" lesson provided by Not In Our Town.
This lesson begins on page 2 of the pdf document. In this lesson, students will identify the health risks of smoking and take an active role in promoting kids to be smoke-free by creating a smoke-free t-shirt design.
Students explore the causes and effects of the Earth's ozone holes through discussion and an interactive simulation. Students learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp.
In this resource students will learn how certain sounds can hurt and damage their ears.
This resource discusses how physical activity can prevent and control noncommunicable diseases.
Students explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for our bodies.
Students explore why the body needs food, and how it takes necessary nutrients as food passes through the digestive system.
Students will explain how to read and interpret the data on a Nutrition Facts panel, identify amounts and types of specific nutrients needed by teens expressed as both absolute values and percentages, and iIllustrate ways in which nutrient information found on product packaging can help them as consumers to make more informed food choices.
Students will explain the importance of fruits and vegetables, describe MyPlate guidance for fruit and vegetable intake, and identify the health consequences of not consuming enough fruits and
vegetables.
Students will review what they have learned during a series of nutrition lessons by playing the Nutrition Jeopardy game.
This is a PowerPoint presentation is to be used with the Nutrition Jeopardy lesson.