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Adopt Ivan

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners brainstorm and discuss what students need to grow up healthy and happy. They read about families and situations where learners are not in healthy and happy situations, and the importance of adoption.
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Planning to Parent: Do I Want Children? How Many? When?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the jigsaw method, ten different life situations relating to parenting are evaluated and then presented to the class. Through this experience, participants understand the reasons for choosing whether or not to have children, how...
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Adopt Good Personal Health Habits

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils, through teacher lecture and instruction, review the personal wellness habits that can prevent illness and maintain good health. Hopefully, if students adopt these habits they will decrease their chance of getting sick.
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American Psychological Association

Childhood Obesity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The United States leads the world in the percentage of obese adults and children. Why? What can be done about the problem? High school psychology classes adopt a problem-focused approach to investigating childhood obesity and then...
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Malnutrition

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students attempt to find innovative ways to solve the problem of malnutrition. They focus on finding workable and reasonable solutions, adoptable by any patient. Students enhance critical thinking to create an avenue by which...
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What Did I Touch Today?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe and adopt behaviors for health and safety. They explore what germs are and how they can make you sick. Through graphing activities, 2nd graders examine the way germs travel and what they can do to prevent the...
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Are You Ready for a Dog?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the role of pet ownership. In this pet responsibilities lesson plan, students discuss the responsibilities of pet ownership as well as the costs associated with it. Students discuss methods of adopting dogs.
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NickNews: Winners and Losers

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students view the excerpt from NickNews entitled, "Winners and Losers." In groups, they categorize a variety of words and images relating to weight, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle. They discuss adopting positive eating habits,...
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Unplanned Pregnancy: Pregnancy Options and Society

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate sexual health by completing a worksheet in class. In this pregnancy lesson plan, students discuss the risk of having sex without contraceptive devices and what to do if an unplanned pregnancy occurs. Students answer...
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MFL: Young Drivers

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars examine and discuss images from road safety programs. In groups, they role-play a scenerio in which they are trying to persuade the other to adopt an unsafe driving practice. They write a short article about their...
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Common Sense Media

Which Me Should I Be?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Impress upon learners the importance of considering how we identify ourselves online, and how this relates to overall considerations of safety and digital wellness.
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Cyberbullying: Crossing the Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Teach pupils to identify different forms of cyberbullying, including harassment, deception, “flaming,” and threats to safety, as well as how to handle a situation in which cyberbullying might be involved.
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Juno - Movie Questions

For Students 9th - 12th
This set of questions follows along with the movie Juno, which is about a 16-year-old getting pregnant and the resulting decisions she makes about the welfare of her baby. Give the class these questions to answer while they watch the...
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The True Cost of Coffee

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine the economic, health and environmental risks of being a one-crop country. They explain the risks of relying on one crop. They also identify the factors that resist change.
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Planning to Parent: Am I Qualified?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In small groups, teens take on different roles to discuss the qualifications for parenthood. An instruction sheet for group discussion is provided, as well as homework worksheets. Throughout these exercises, young adults take the time to...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), Day 3: HIV/AIDS - Its Impact on People

For Teachers 7th - 10th
High schoolers watch a video in which sixteen young people talk about how their lives have been changed by having HIV. So many people have the attitude that it will never happen to them, but no one is immune to this disease. Hopefully...
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Get Acquainted with the Great Outdoors

For Teachers K - 8th
National Parks and Recreation Month offers opportunities to improve health and education.
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Creative Learning Exchange

The Infection Game: The Shape of Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Encourage the spread of knowledge in your class with this cross-curricular epidemic simulation. Pulling together science, social studies, and math, this lesson engages students in modeling the spread of infectious diseases, collecting...
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Elementary CORE Academy

Food Foldable

For Teachers 2nd
There's nothing as satisfying as a crunchy carrot or a juicy apple! Teach your middle and high schoolers about healthy eating habits with a set of nutrition activities. After analyzing the model of the food pyramid, learners apply the...
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National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

A Healthy Retirement?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Do men and women experience heart disease the same way? High school and college-level biologists examine a case study about a woman, Nancy, who is experiencing intermittent health issues; looking at her diet, exercise, and lifestyle...
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The Teenage Single Parent

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the challenges a single teenage parent faces. In groups, they research ways to positively cope with an unplanned pregnancy and design their own layette for their new baby. As a class, they discuss what it means to be...
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Biomedical Engineering and Diabetes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss diabetes, it causes, and old and current technology to control the disease. They discuss biomedical engineering and new technology to control the disease. The examine the various types of insulin delivery systems and...
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Welcome to the First Day of School!

For Teachers K - 8th
Classmates participate in a variety of getting-to-know-you activities for the first day of school. They make resolutions, become detectives about their fellow classmates, learn about each other by playing switch, and make welcome bags.

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