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BELT-ABOUTS Lesson 1
Students explain how safety belts prevent injury. They identify three other safety features in a vehicle. Students discuss how fast 40 miles per hour is. They discuss how high a five story building is. Students discuss other types...
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The Heart of the Matter
Students discuss importance of heart fitness, research essential questions relating to teen fitness, practice using heart rate monitors daily, collect and record information, and analyze information at end of quarter to determine whether...
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Crunching the Numbers on Dating Violence
Students read about potential violent relationships and beliefs about dating. For this relationship lesson students use graphs to examine data about healthy realtionshipsand draw conclusions on their results.
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Healthy Family Meals
In this healthy family meals worksheet, learners read a short selection that details a family's need to eat more healthful meals. They answer 5 true or false questions about the reading before writing a short essay detailing how the...
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Quiz 6A and 6B: Using No Article
In this grammar worksheet, students determine whether or not the sentence needs "the" added to it to be correct. There are 12 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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My Name is Osama - Bullying and Name-Calling
Learners read the story of an Iraqi immigrant boy named Osama who faces taunts of terrorist in his U.S. school after the attack of September 11.
They discuss the characters and their struggles in the story. Students respond to...
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Lesson Plan on Refugees
Students explore the issue of "human rights" and discuss world events/situations in which human rights are in question. They determine their own needs and wants and simulate the experience of being a refugee having to leave their home. ...
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Spider Web
Learners work together to get all of their team mates through the holes of an obstical course called the spider web while not touching the rope. In this team work lesson plan, students focus on working together.
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All About HIV and AIDS
Pupils use the internet to research the causes, effects and how AIDS is transmitted from person to person. In groups, they discover why women are more suseptiable to the disease. To end the lesson, they are introduced to the various...
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Sleep and Energy
Students explore the concept of a good night's rest. In this sleep and energy lesson, students keep track of hours slept per night for a week and how they feel each day. Students discuss how good rest contributes to feeling alert...
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Healthy Food Choices
Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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Being an Active Family
Students brainstorm ideas that will help them to be more active. For this activity lesson students select an indoor activity they can do as a family and other ways they can get moving.
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Menu Madness
Students determine the nutritional values of fast foods. Then they make comparisons of their results and present their findings to the class. They compare the nutritional values of fast foods based on information provided on menus.
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Million Dollar Machine
Students explore their self-awareness. They discuss the words unique, extraordinary and irreplaceable and their strengths and weaknesses. They write five things their bodies or Million Dollar Machines can do and investigate their blood...
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Honduras: Going Bananas
Students explore the popularity of bananas. They conduct a survey to understand the reasons for their popularity. Students research a banana's journey from the farm to school lunch. They compose a children's book about bananas explaining...
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Fatty Food
Students view various types of food that are listed as bad for all people. Students chart out all findings within this lesson. Students talk in an open forum of ways they could change their eating habits in the future.
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5 A Day
Students examine the 5 a day program. They sing different songs and discover how to be healthy. They identify different parts of the music as well.
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Eat Smart. Play Hard.
Students study healthy food choices and the energy it creates for physical activity. In this food energy lesson, students complete multiple activities to learn about the benefits of healthy eating upon physical activity.
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Nutrition (Low Fat/High Fat Foods)
Students explain that a low fat diet, accompanied by being physically active, help them live longer and healthier lives.
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth?
Students complete activities to investigate natural disasters and the impact on animals. In this natural disaster and animal safety lesson, students discuss the importance of safety procedures. Students use a map of their school and...
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I Appreciate You
Students make a list of all family members, including themselves, on a piece of paper (family activity). Beside each name, write one thing you really appreciate about that person. Also, write beside your name what you think others in...
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Decision-Making
Young scholars identify two ways people can make decisions. They list and demonstrate the steps in making a decision actively and recognize that, although feelings affect decisions, people can decide not to act on a feeling.
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Dealing With Teasing and Bullying
Students view film clips on the internet, take notes, and participate in a discussion about bullying. They complete entries in a handbook on how to handle bullying.