Developing close personal and romantic relationships requires its own set of skills. This session focuses on helping teens develop behaviors and strategies for dealing with romantic relationships, rather than on sharing personal...

A lesson looks closely at risky behavior such as teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Middle schoolers use a question box to ask questions anonymously. They role-play what life would be like if they became pregnant then...

Class members gain awareness of the challenges people with disabilities face, such as those with vision impairments, autism, or speech and language disabilities, as they progress through a series of engaging and informative learning...

Learners explore the attributes of effective communication. In this communication lesson plan, students determine how to effectively send and receive messages as they role-play the process.

What does the term "lifestyle" mean? What constitutes an active lifestyle? What constitutes a healthy lifestyle? The main ideas in this lesson focus on what an active healthy lifestyle looks like. There are questions for discussion, and...

Second graders role play as dentists researching teeth and their care. They create a slide show showing how a character, Bear, can take care of this teeth explaining habitats, diets and teeth.

In this graphs worksheet, students analyze a bar graph that shows retail prescription drug sales in the U.S. Students complete five problem solving questions about the data on the graph.

Students study milk products and learn their health benefits. In this milk products instructional activity, students discuss dairy products. Students participate in a game of milk product identification. Students also discuss...

Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular lesson plan detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the lesson plan, ask your pupils to...

Students discover the purposes and parts of the mouth, about oral health.

Students discuss the importance of friendships and the main factors of friendships after reading the story "Poll uncovers friendship secrets". The lesson is set up as an open class discussion in order for the students to learn from each...

Students practice listening skills by playing the game, Steal the Bacon. They work in two groups to listen to numbers and try to get the "bacon" first before getting tagged by the opposing team. Working together, the teams solve math...

Students reach into the bag and grab an object. They should try to identify the object without looking in the bag or pulling the object out of the bag.

Learners identify the arguments on both sides of the new Medicare policy debate over claim hearings. They participate in a mock trial to adjudicate the fairness of the new policy.

Fourth graders simulate how the digestive system works. In this hands-on simulation, 4th graders complete six group activities that help students visualize how our body breaks down food into nutrients.

"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy going to his first baseball game and learning what it means to be a Chicago Cubs fan. It is followed by open-ended questions which require students to provide...

"Read to Learn about Elections" is a one page, nonfiction passage about government systems and workers that keep people safe including police officers, food inspectors, and water and sewer workers. It is followed by an open-ended...