In this activity, students experience what it is like to interact without words in order to understand the complexity of communication.
This video helps offer simple steps that can help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.
This article discusses safety precautions to consider before getting a tattoo or piercing.
This is an article that explains the risks of tattooing and body piercing. It can be used in conjunction with the Body Decoration lesson plan.
Students will explain types of infection that can occur when the body's skin is pierced with an unclean needle, identify low-risk, healthful ways of expressing their self-identity as modern teens, and apply the reading skills of using an outline to understand exposition in an article on body piercing and tattooing.
Students learn about fats and how excessive fat and calories in the diet can contribute to health problems. In an associated activity, students will plan a three-day backpacking trip to the Rocky Mountains based on their understanding of the need to balance supply of and demand for calories.
Students learn about body image and self-esteem in teenagers. It includes topics such as why self-esteem and body image are important, what Influences a person's self-esteem, tips for improving body image, and where teens can go for help. Students can read or listen to this article.
Students learn about Body Mass Index and helps students calculate their own BMI. One of the biggest questions guys and girls have as they grow and develop is whether they're the right weight. One place to start is by learning about body mass index, or BMI, a calculation that estimates how much body fat a person has based on his or her weight and height.
This is an interactive site that allows students to enter their weight and height and then calculate their body mass index. The calculation also comes with a few sentences that explains the BMI that is calculated and offers some suggestions on what needs to be done.
In this activity, students will fill out their own ?physical reactions to stress? inventory and graph the class results. Then they will work in pairs to learn more about the body mechanisms that cause physiological stress symptoms, such as a fast heartbeat, cold hands, and dry mouth, or even longer-lasting symptoms such as a headache and sleeplessness. Finally, students will discuss their own reactions to stress and understand that many physiological stress reactions are part of the body?s normal functioning. Students will also look at ways of dealing with stress.
Students learn abou body piercing including safety and health risks.
This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes how researchers with the Appalachian State University Human Performance Lab are providing new insights into how even a small amount of exercise can cut the risk of disease in half. The study focuses on physical fitness and health of middle grade students. Components of this resource include a video and a related blog article. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."
Students will learn about all the changes that a boy goes through during puberty including confusion about girls, muscles, and body hair.
This is a compilation of discussion questions about how addiction and drugs affect the brain and behavior. The questions are accompanied with a comprehension quiz.
Students will learn the importance of wearing a bike helmet by creating a design for a bike helmet.
The Public Service Announcement (PSA) Break Bullying depicts adults in an office environment re-enacting the director?s personal bullying experience from middle school. His point: If we would not stand for this in the office, why do we stand for it happening to kids in schools? It is a call to action for everyone to take bullying seriously. Students and teachers alike are reporting visceral responses to the PSA.
This is a supplemental video that should be used with the "Breaking Bullying: Not in the Breakroom, Not on the Playground" lesson provided by Not In Our Town.
Students will be able to explain the difference between a healthy body, a body
with type 1, and a body with type 2 diabetes, state which kind of diabetes children and teens get most, and name the type of diabetes that is being diagnosed more and more often in children and teens.
In this lesson students will recognize the five food groups and identify healthy foods they can eat for breakfast.
In this lesson students will recognize some healthy foods they can eat for breakfast.