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Playground Issues and Resolutions
Getting your students to buy into good behavior on the playground improves everyone's year.
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Health Education in the Classroom
Making a difference in the health of your students can be done with fun classroom activities.
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Special Education Students in the Mainstream Classroom
How to prepare your mainstream students for a special education student in their classroom.
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Helping Students With Emotional Challenges
How to help the emotional student function normally in class.
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Yoga in the Classroom
Yoga can be a way for students to improve classroom performance by learning how to meet challenges calmly.
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Gardening with Your Students
By growing a class or school garden you can teach students about the environment, the life cycle of a plant, and healthy eating.
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A Love of Recipes
Everyone loves looking through cookbooks and recipes. This can turn into an educational experience for students.
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Getting the Most From Your Food
Students study the food pyramid to learn about healthy food. In this healthy foods lesson, students create a chart of the healthy foods they eat in a day. Students discuss their choices and how they could make better choices.
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The Challenge to Deliver Insulin
Students study the types of diabetes and why insulin is important. In this diabetes lesson students build molecular models and create a healthy lifestyle plan.
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Brain Buzz: Effects of Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol and Drugs on Learning
Students understand how the brain functions and how they can promote a healthy lifestyle. In this health instructional activity students complete several activities including investigating how stimulates affect the brain.
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À Votre Sant?: A French-Language Unit on Nutrition
Students discover the basic nutritional information for different foods. In this nutrition lesson plan students classify items, identify what a balanced diet is and determine what recipes are healthy.
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Your Amazing Body
Students examine the different body systems and how they are interdependent on each other. In this body systems lesson students draw the body and its parts.
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Kool Kumara Lesson Plans - Healthy Living
Students read graphs as they work with recommended daily intakes of nutrients. In this math and nutrition lesson, students examine Recommended Daily Intake Maps to establish how much of the daily requirement is met by eating on kumara....
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Heart Rate
Students move through a variety of locomotor skills at different paces to see how they affect their heart rate. For this health, human body, and physical activity lesson plan, students measure their heart rate and discuss health. A...
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The Tobacco Time Bomb: What's In A Cigarette?
In this enlightening and disturbing health lesson, students read and discuss information on smoking and closely-look at the ingredients in a cigarette. You will be amazed at the list of ingredients that are found in cigarettes. This...
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Brain Awareness Week
Students explore human anatomy by completing a list of activities over five days. In this brain science lessons, students examine images of brains and identify the different parts. Students complete an in-class quiz regarding brain...
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Brain Awareness Week Lessons
Learners explore the human brain and nervous system. For this brain awareness lesson, students examine specific terms with regards to the human brain. Learners discover the brain's structure and function and how it functions as the...
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BMI For Kids - Body Mass Index
Promote healthy lifestyles with an interactive that provides young learners with healthy nutrition and exercise messages. Class members plug their height and weight information into an online body mass index calculator, and hear positive...
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Your Heart
Students explore human anatomy by defining vocabulary terms. In this human heart lesson, students research the components of the respiratory system and complete handouts based on the role of the heart. Students define a list of heart...
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What is Wrong with My Pet? - An Introduction to Zoonoses
Learners describe how ringworm and roundworm cause diseases in both humans and animals. In this life science lesson, students research how these diseases can be transmitted. They create an information brochure to promote public awareness...
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Pets and People
Students discuss the pros and cons of having household pets. For this health lesson, students identify different types of diseases they can get from pets. They evaluate their pet interactions and suggest ways to modify health habits...
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Entomologists on Safari: On the Hunt for Mosquitoes
Students research about the symptoms of West Nile Virus. In this health lesson, students play the role of scientists investigating mosquito activity in a fictional community. They suggest ways to prevent West Nile virus infection by...
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Crunching the Numbers on Dating Violence
Students read about potential violent relationships and beliefs about dating. In this relationship instructional activity students use graphs to examine data about healthy realtionshipsand draw conclusions on their results.
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Rethink Your Drink
Students identify the contents of popular drinks. In this health lesson plan students learn how to read labels and devise ways that they can drink more water.