Students will learn that everyone has different ways of coping with exam stress
that some coping strategies are more helpful than others.

Students work in small groups to categorize coping strategies as positive, negative, neutral and time-out behaviors.

Students will learn to recognize different changes that may happen in our lives
consider how we cope with change.

Students will learn to understand that pressures can impact on our thoughts and feelings
to understand that we have a choice as to how we react to feelings.

Students learn about the difference between friends and cliques and how to cope with cliques. The following topics are covered: ?A Group of Friends vs. a Clique ?What's the Deal With Cliques? ?Why Do Cliques Attract People? ?The View from the Inside ?Surviving Cliques

Students learn about why people drink too much and how alcoholism affects families.

In this lesson, students realize some of the costs and rewards of parenting.

In this lesson students will identify key health problems related to smoking, differentiate between primary and secondary smoke describe how the tobacco companies are misleading in their advertising.

In this lesson, students learn about the basic food groups and healthy snacks.

In this lesson students will learn about cross-contamination of food, why it is dangerous, and how to avoid it.

This lesson allows students to explore the concept of competition versus collaboration and to begin to understand that conflicts are easier to manage when the people in conflict work together, trust one another, and strive to maintain their relationship. This is true in interpersonal conflicts, but also in inter-group and international conflicts.

Students learn about cutting including why people cut themselves, what can happen to people that cut themselves, and how to get help.

This resource provides information about why some teens want to hurt themselves and how to recognize the signs of self- injury.

This is an interactive resource that show the parts of the heart, how the heart works, and offers many facts about the heart.

In this lesson activity students will learn about the dangers of inhalant use and how using inhalants damages the body.

This resource provides information to help students learn about dating and how to maintain healthy relationships.

Students will learn about the functions and purposes of responsible dating including dating behaviors, values, responsibilities and refusal skills.

Students will be given a list of dating violence information Web sites and a blank "Dating Violence Crossword." They are to complete the crossword by finding the answers within the various Web sites, then use their new undestanding to plan a schoolwide Dating Violence Awareness campaign.