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Health Conscious?
What is your attitude on health and illness? By considering their own experiences, students will reflect on and discuss their attitudes toward health and illness while educating each other by researching illnesses in small groups,...
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Using Graphical Displays to Depict Health Trends in America's Youth
Identify the different types of graphs and when they are used. Learners will research a specific health issue facing teens today. They then develop a survey, collect and analyze data and present their findings in class. This is a...
Kenan Fellows
How Does an Unhealthy Diet Influence our Health and Well-Being?
You are what you eat, or so they say! After surveying family and friends on a week of eating habits, learners analyze the data for patterns. They compare different variables such as fats and cost, fats and calories, or fats and LDLs.
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Personal Wellness Inventory
How healthy are you really? High schoolers assess the aspects of physical, mental, and social health in their lives before applying them to various templates and discerning the unhealthy habits that they can work on changing.
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Health Related Fitness Portfolio
Students develop and implement a fitness station. Students base their exercise stations upon flexibility, muscular strength, and endurance. They complete a health related fitness portfolio. Students design and take a fitness survey.
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Health Is Not An Option
Students explore healthy lifestyles. In this health lesson, students brainstorm various types of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and write them on cards. Students play a game and determine if the card they draw is a healthy lifestyle or...
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Lead Poisoning A Home Health Hazard
Students read background material on lead poisoning, assessing its impact on students. They locate local sources that might contain lead-based paint. Students research what is being done in the community to alleviate the problem. They...
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Monstrous Data
Students examine the meaning of data and data collection, represent data in various ways, and make a bar graph.
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Health (General Wellness)
Seventh graders explore their personal health by completing a worksheet. In this healthy living lesson, 7th graders examine the health triangle and research ways to prevent at risk behavior. Students complete a health survey...
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Body Mass Index (BMI)
How do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...
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Asthma Survey
Students collect survey data on the prevalence of asthma in a community. They summarize and display the survey data in ways that show meaning.
Seattle & King County Family-Planning Program
Gender Roles
Class members identify gender-specific roles and expectations in American society today by surveying adults, examining modern entertainment, and researching historical figures.
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Cruel Schools
Middle schoolers survey the climate of their school. In this personal health lesson, students discuss bullying and violence in schools. Middle schoolers then complete a school climate survey, compile the results, and interpret them....
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Advocacy, Recognition, Prevention Through Art and Health
Learners analyze how the environment and family history impacts personal health. In this personal health lesson, students discuss cancer and survey the school community about the disease. Learners create a bulletin board about...
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Uninsured in America
Young scholars explore the issue of being uninsured in America. In this social issues instructional activity, students review data about uninsured Americans. Young scholars create and conduct surveys related to the social issue of being...
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Comparing the Health and Lifestyles of 13 Year-olds Around the World.
Eighth graders examine international data and statistics to evaluate the health and trends of 13 year old students around the world.
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How does Physical activity Help You?
Examine factors that influence your choice about physical activity. In this physical activity lesson plan, learners recognize how physical activity and good health go together. Students participate in a survey about...
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What Are Bullying And Harassment?
Fourth graders define the four types of bullying and define harassment. They complete a True/False survey, student notes, and question and answer.
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Race To Win Project
Students develop proper work and personal skills that will enable them to become competent and confident adults. Students analyze basic nutritional habits. Students evaluate sport/athletic food patterns.
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#4 School Survey
High schoolers, after brainstorming on health data, design a class or school survey on asthma. They collect, tabulate, and summarize the data. The data is placed on an Excel spreadsheet program. Upon completion, many demographic...
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Food Environmental Quality And Health
Pupils focus on the issues that students face during middle childhood. They recognize the negative effects of poor nutrition and make more informed healthy decisions. They conduct further self-analysis in regards to their individual...
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FACS:Health Careers Planner - Therapeutic Services
Students explore the Therapeutic Services Career Pathway using articles in the Health Careers Planner.
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Health/Wellness Interdisciplinary Unit
Students examine human body systems, research a disease or condition, analyze their family trees to look for health conditions and/or diseases which may be prevalent, discover ratio and proportions of human body, and read novel, The...
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National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
Students review data analysis techniques. In this statistics lesson, students access statistical software regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Students read and interpret the data as they complete the...