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Music: Sing Away Your Anger
Students learn the song, There Is Always Something You Can Do, to help them deal with anger. They brainstorm ways to resolve situations peacefully and draw pictures of themselves as peacemakers.
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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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Understanding and Avoiding HIV/AIDS
High schoolers begin the lesson by discussing what they already know about their immune system. In groups, they participate in a true and false game using the facts and myths of HIV/AIDS. They discuss how the disease is affecting their...
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Crunching the Numbers on Dating Violence
Students read about potential violent relationships and beliefs about dating. In this relationship lesson students use graphs to examine data about healthy realtionshipsand draw conclusions on their results.
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Driving Range
Young scholars practice safety rules and knowledge of the road by going through a driving course using scooters/bicycles/tricycles, etc.
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What Did You Say?
Second graders role-play various situations in which they use verbal and non-verbal communication.
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Let's Learn About Firefighters!
Students explore, analyze and study about fire fighters and fire safety. They listen to a book, list what they already know about firefighters and fire safety rules and compare/contrast types of firefighters. Each student then writes a...
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Food Pyramid Tag
Students participate in a tag game with the purpose of learning about the food pyramid. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students are challenged to find photos of specific food groups without being tagged. During this lesson plan, a...
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?
Learners investigate the food pyramid. In this nutrition lesson, students review the food pyramid and construct a list of what they eat. Learners review the nutritional value of their food list and brainstorm ways to improve their diet.
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Child Care Unit
In this activity, child care apprentices prepare granola bars to serve to preschoolers. A recipe and lab evaluation sheet are included, but the actual procedure is vague. It could be used in a cooking class or as a career exploration...
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Fertilizers, Pesticides and Human Health- American Lessons
High schoolers explore migration and why people move. They explore the movement of native populations. Students explore the economy as an factor in migration. They discuss the exploitation of the migrant worker.
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Tracking Physical Fitness
Students record their daily physical activity in a chart. In this physical fitness lesson plan, students and adults exercise and see how many repetitions they can do in a given amount of time. They record this in a chart over a period of...
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Nutrition Unit
Pupils complete a number of activities to learn about food and nutrition. They listen to stories, make a collage, play food bingo, and examine the food pyramid as they investigate healthy eating choices.
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Keeping Healthy Lesson Plan
Students explore how muscles work. In this health instructional activity, students identify how the blood supplies muscles with oxygen. Students participate in an online activity to reinforce the concepts.
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Responsibilities
Students identify different responsibilities they have at home and at school. In this responsibilities lesson plan, students identify the responsibilities they need to follow through on and what happens when they don't. They put...
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?
Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise. In this physical education lesson plan, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often. Students perform a sing along...
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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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Breakfast of Champions
Second graders classify foods using the food pyramid and write about the foods they eat. They distinguish between healthy and junk food and make healthy choices for their meals. They listen to the story "No Peas for Nellie" and discuss...
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Healthy Family Meals
In this healthy family meals worksheet, students 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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Egyptian Civilization
Fifth graders explore facets of ancient Egyptian life. For this lesson on ancient civilizations, 5th graders find the location of ancient Egyptian nations on a world map and describe the climate and features. They explain how post...
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What Happens to Our Hearts When We Are Active?
Learners discover the benefits of a healthy heart through exercise. In this physical education lesson, students participate in a few physical activities in order to get their hearts beating faster. Learners examine a visual...
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Good Hygiene: A Healthy Smile
Learners practice proper brushing techniques. In this dental hygiene lesson, students use a plaque disclosing tablet to practice the correct tooth brushing procedure.
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Climbing the Pyramid
Students examine the Food Pyramid to discover the foods they need to eat to have a healthy body. Using food brought to class, they must place the food in the correct category in the pyramid. In groups, they test food samples for fat...