Stay smart around the house. This resource provides microwave fire prevention and household cleaning safety tips.

Students learn the best way to prevent pregnancy and STDs is abstinence, as well as, different means of birth control for couples to protect themselves if they do decide to have sex.

This article explains how STDs spread and how to prevent and treat STDs.

This is a supplemental article that discusses what stressful feelings are. The following topics are discussed: ?Positive vs. Negative Emotions ?Step 1: Identify the Emotion ?Step 2: Take Action ?Step 3: Get Help With Difficult Emotions

This article discusses momentary and lasting stress, as well as, how to build good coping skills.

Students learn about abstinence. The following topics are covered: ?What Is It? ?How Does It Work? ?How Well Does It Work? ?Protection Against STDs ?How Do You Do It?

Students learn the answers to the following questions; What Is Abuse? Recognizing Abuse Why Does Abuse Happen? What Are the Effects of Abuse? What Should Someone Who's Being Abused Do?

Students learn about abusive relationships with emphasis on what healthy relationships involve, what abuse is, signs of abusive relationships, signs that a friend is being abused, how you can help yourself, and where to get help. This is a supplemental article that students can read or listen to.

Students learn terms related to the immune system and define what acquired and passive immunities are and how they differ.

Students should be able to identify the various levels of the pyramid and name
activities from each level that they enjoy and recognize that in order to keep our bodies healthy, we should all do more activities from the bottom of the pyramid and fewer activities from the top.

Students should be able to name three sports or activities that they enjoy, name two ways they can be more active every day, and explain why exercise is important to keep bodies healthy
and feeling good.

What techniques are used to ?normalize? and glamorize a look to sell products to young people? How can media messages be analyzed and interpreted? How can media (including advertising) help shape perceptions of what girls and boys should look like, beginning at very young ages? How can these perceptions affect mental and physical health? The following activity will help students answer each of the questions as they learn how media advertisements affect the way teens see themselves and others.

Learning about the messages behind the ads will help you understand the differences between real vs. ideal and know the truth will help you craft a positive self-image! This resource helps students understand that advertisements may not always be reliable.

Students will discuss strategies for toning muscles and controlling weight, recognize claims for weight-loss and exercise devices that are too good to be true, and apply the media literacy skill of recognizing propaganda (loaded language) to a print ad for an abdominal toning device.

Students will describe the challenge during adolescence to gain peer acceptance while developing one's sense of self, recognize the influence that peers and the media have on personal choices during the teen years, and identify physical and emotional changes that occur during adolescence and describe their impact on relationships within the family.

These video cartoons illustrate 5 e-safety SMART rules and include a real life SMART Crew of young people, who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, and help them make safe online decisions. Chapter 1 focuses on what type of digital emails should be accepted, Chapter 2 focuses on reliable information, Chapter 3 focuses on keeping information safe, Chapter 4 focuses on telling on cyberbullies, and Chapter 5 focuses on being careful when meeting online friends. The cartoon video can be viewed in 5 chapter lessons or downloaded as an entire/whole video which is about 19 minutes. Excellent for students between 7 and 12 years of age.

This is an activity in which the students answer questions about advertisements such as what product is being advertised, who is in the advertisement, is the advertisement healthy in nature, and who might be influenced by the advertisement.

Advertising is one of the most powerful forces shaping our ideas, culture, and behavior today. To help students become smart shoppers, this lesson teaches students to critically examine advertisements and identify the underlying messages they convey. Students are given the opportunity to express their creativity by developing their own advertising campaign.

Students learn about the ozone and how poor air quality affects people with asthma.