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Reading Club: Sex Ed

For Teachers 11th - 12th
If you teach health, sociology, ethics, or a class that addresses controversial issues, this resource related to schools' sex education programs may be useful. The New York Times' Learning Network provides a lengthy article on a unique...
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Curated OER

Bullying at School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this character education worksheet, students answer 6 questions about their experience being bullied at school. Students chart the frequency of these events.
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Heart Alert

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...
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Worksheet
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Swimming

For Students 8th - 12th
This merit badge workbook for swimming provides a checklist of achievements necessary to secure this Boy Scout badge. It includes 10 potential health concerns related to swimming and asks about their prevention and treatment. This is a...
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Unit Plan
National Library of Medicine

Your Environment, Your Health: The Great Debate—Bottled Water vs. Tap Water in Our School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Should bottled water be sold in schools, or should they only provide tap water? The summative unit in the six-part series encourages scholars debating this topic. The lessons teach how to build an argument, how to gain background...
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Special Olympics

Train at School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Keep your mind and body fit with a fun activity about the five food groups. After going over the functions of fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and beans, and dairy, as well as oils and fats, learners participate in a bean bag toss to...
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Discovery Education

Is Our Community Influenced by the Opioid Epidemic?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Opioid abuse is becoming a national crisis, but combating the influence of opioids requires examining the ways it affects individual communities. A thorough teacher guide provides step-by-step instructions about implementing an...
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Scholastic

Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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National Association of School Nurses

Learn to Be Smart and Safe with Medicine

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The stated purpose of a school tool kit is to help schools implement teen prescription drug abuse awareness programs. The kit includes actions that groups can take in the school, with parents, and in the community at large.
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Worksheet
Federal Reserve Bank

The Output Gap: A‘Potentially’ Unreliable Measure of Economic Health?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How can we accurately estimate what the economy should produce now and in the future? Have your pupils tackle this question as they learn about real versus potential GDP and as they review data regarding the output gap in the United States.
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Organizer
We Can!

We Can! Screen Time Chart

For Teachers K - 12th
Screens are everywhere these days, from televisions and video games to cell phones and computers. Raise awareness of excessive screen time by helping your learners track how much time they each accumulate on a daily basis looking at...
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National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

In Sickness and in Health

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Based on family history, how likely is it that a couple's children will have a recessive disease? In an in-depth, but easy-to-follow case study, future geneticists learn the story of Greg and Olga, who are hoping to have children, but...
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App
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Tobacco Free Teens

For Students 4th - 10th
Clear the smoke about cigarette use with an engaging application. Comic strip animation and games teach learners why they should never try smoking in the first place, and how to quit this lethal habit if they have already been lured in.
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Handout
American College of Sports Medicine

Selecting and Effectively Using Hydration for Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How much water does your body lose during exercise? How much should you hydrate during and after exercise? Address the importance of hydration with your young athletes using this informative handout.
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Activity
Steered Straight

Marijuana Awareness

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
February is Marijuana Awareness Month, and a set of interdisciplinary activities can make your class aware of the social, medical, legal, and psychological effects of marijuana. With writing prompts, research opportunities, and...
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PPT
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Keeping Safe Outside of School

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Review how to stay safe outside of school. This presentation provides several good questions and answer discussion starters to help learners make good choices regarding strangers, peer pressure, and places to play.
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Worksheet
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Pesky Plastics: The Problem with Plastic

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
What can happen to the environment if plastic continues to pollute it? Learners read about the implications of plastic on health, water, and nature in a two-page reading passage. After they finish reading, they work on six comprehension...
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Activity
S&S Worldwide

Fitness Challenge

For Students K - 12th
Don't be a couch potato! Get up and moving with a February 2018 calendar that suggests daily exercises that will get your feet walking and your heart pumping. There's even a special challenge for Super Bowl Sunday.
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Activity
Serendip

Carbohydrate Consumption, Athletic Performance and Health – Using Science Process Skills to Understand the Evidence

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Should athletes carb load before an event or consume carbohydrates during the competition? Scholars discuss how to set up a hypothesis and experiment to answer a question relating carbohydrates and athletic performance. Then, they read...
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Character Education: Responsibility

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study Manuel de Zavala and his role in the history of Texas. In this character education lesson, students read about Manuel Lorenzo and underline the responsibilities he took on in his life. Students then answer questions about...
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Food Security, Nutrition and Health

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the concepts of food security and malnutrition. In this healthy diets lesson, students discuss hunger. food security, and malnutrition. Young scholars collages that depict a world in which no one goes hungry and...
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Heart Healthy Food Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game of musical chairs that discusses heart health. In this health lesson, students walk around a group of chairs and when the music stops they sit down. Some chairs will have index cards with a picture of a...
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Curated OER

Healthy Happy heart Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete activity pages in a book to demonstrate their understanding of a healthy heart.
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Curated OER

Hearts in Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in cardiovascular activities. In this physical education lesson, students are divided into groups and brainstorm activities to get their heart rate up. Students demonstrate the activity for classmates.

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