Essential Health
By: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Melanie Lynch, and Melissa MunsellCopyright: 2015
Subject: Health: High School
Grade Level: 9-12
- Essential Health is the most up-to-date, skills-based text available for high school health and wellness classes. With its engaging writing and numerous supporting activities, this text presents the study of health and wellness as a dynamic discussion, relevant to students' lives. In addition to the standard topics, the text contains in-depth coverage of sleep, body image, and health across the lifespan. Content and skills are aligned to the National Health Education Standards.
- Examples of up-to-date coverage not found in other texts include discussions of e-cigarettes, substance abuse in the context of changing laws, cyber-bullying, and other online safety issues.
- Extensive instructor's resources, including videos, lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments, save time and help to create the most appropriate lessons for the classroom.
- Award-winning health teachers created an abundance of classroom-tested activities to engage students as they study key concepts.
- Products & Prices 6-12 Education
- Table of Contents
- Unit I - Introduction to Health and Wellness1. Understanding Your Health and Wellness
2. Risk Factors: Behavior, Genes, EnvironmentUnit II - Nutrition and Food Choices3. Nutrition
4. Body Weight and Composition
5. Body ImageUnit III - Fitness and Personal Health6. Physical Fitness
7. Sleep
8. Personal Hygiene and Basic HealthcareUnit IV - Understanding and Avoiding Hazardous Substances9. Tobacco
10. Alcohol
11. Medications and DrugsUnit V - Diseases and Disorders12. Infectious Diseases
13. Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
14. Noncommunicable DiseasesUnit VI - Mental and Emotional Health and Wellness15. Achieving Mental and Emotional Health
16. Managing the Stress in Your Life
17. Mental Illnesses and DisordersUnit VII - Social Health and Wellness18. Healthy Family and Peer Relationships
19. Dealing with Conflict, Violence, and AbuseUnit VIII - The Human Life Cycle20. Reproduction and Pregnancy
21. Childbirth and Parenting Newborns
22. Human Development across the Life SpanBackground LessonsBody Systems
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- Correlations
- CaliforniaCalifornia Health Education Content Standards (PDF, 200 KB)FloridaHOPE (Health Opportunities through Physical Education) (PDF, 138 KB)IdahoFamily Health and Wellness (PDF, 420 KB)MississippiContemporary Health (Grades 9-12) (PDF, 417 KB)National StandardsNational Health Education Standards (PDF, 116 KB)North Carolina9th-Grade Health (PDF, 535 KB)OklahomaHealth and Physical EducationTexasHealth I, Grades 9-10 (PDF, 544 KB)VirginiaHealth Standards of Learning (PDF, 581 KB)West VirginiaHealth – Grade 9 (PDF, 386 KB)
- About the Author(s)