Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School, 2nd Edition
By: Catherine Sanderson, Lindsay Armbruster, Mary McCarley, and Mark ZelmanCopyright: 2021
Subject: Health: Middle School
Grade Level: 6-8
- Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School is a complete educational package for teaching skills-based health education in the classroom. This second edition features core health topics such as nutrition, physical activity, and mental health; information about sexual health and pregnancy prevention; and cutting-edge health topics, such as vaping, opioid addiction, body positivity, self-compassion, social media, mindfulness, and digital citizenship. Content and skills align to the National Health Education Standards and the National Sexuality Education Standards.
The abundance of skills-based activities and assessments in Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School provide flexibility for teaching health and wellness in a relatable, skills-driven way. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice and develop the skills they need to make healthy choices now and throughout their lives.- Each chapter contains skills-based activities that align to the health skill areas in the National Health Education Standards. These activities were created by experts and award-winning health education teachers. Health and wellness content focuses on the skills students can use to make healthy decisions and promote health for themselves and others.
- Up-to-date terminology and topics make Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School the most current text available, with reliable health information about tobacco and vaping, medication abuse, online safety, self-care, body compassion, and affirmative consent. With this educational package, teachers also receive access to regular content updates written by the expert authors.
- Extensive supplements include customizable lesson plans for each lesson and chapter review, teacher-directed activities with handouts, vocabulary activities, reading guides, parent/trusted adult engagement assignments, review activities for differentiation, performance assessments, standard-based assessments, workbook activities, animations, and videos.
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- Table of Contents
- Unit 1 Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellness1. Understanding Your Health and Wellness
2. Knowing How Your Body Works
3. Developing Good Personal Hygiene
4. Getting the Sleep You NeedUnit 2 Taking Care of Mental and Emotional Health5. Understanding Mental and Emotional Health
6. Understanding Mental IllnessesUnit 3 Nutrition and Physical Activity7. Nutrition
8. Physical ActivityUnit 4 Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs9. Tobacco and Vaping
10. Alcohol
11. Medications and DrugsUnit 5 Protecting Your Physical Health and Safety12. Understanding and Preventing Diseases
13. Promoting Safety and Preventing Injuries
14. Protecting Environmental HealthUnit 6 Social Health and Wellness15. Promoting Healthy Relationships
16. Preventing and Responding to ViolenceUnit 7 Human Development and Reproductive Health17. Human Development
18. Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDSUnit 8 Human Sexuality19. Understanding Sexuality
20. Making Responsible Sexual Decisions - The Look Inside images are for preview purposes only. The format of the actual product may vary from the images shown.
- Correlations
- CaliforniaHealth Education Content Standards (Grade 6) (PDF, 338.4 KB)Health Education Content Standards (Grades 7–8) (PDF, 543.22 KB)FloridaComprehensive Health Education, Florida Statute 1003.42 – Grade 6 (PDF, 169.93 KB)Comprehensive Health Education, Florida Statute 1003.42 – Grade 7 (PDF, 192.44 KB)Comprehensive Health Education, Florida Statute 1003.42 – Grade 8 (PDF, 196.88 KB)IllinoisPhysical Development and Health Performance (PDF, 216.55 KB)Michigan7-8th Grade Health GLCEs (PDF, 123.87 KB)National StandardsNational Health Education Standards (Grades 6–8) (PDF, 47.26 KB)New York CorrelationFoundations for Adolescent Health (PDF, 293.77 KB)OklahomaHealth / Nutrition – Grades 6‐8 (PDF, 145.28 KB)VirginiaHealth Education – Grade 6 (PDF, 325.26 KB)Health Education – Grade 7 (PDF, 447.57 KB)Health Education – Grade 8 (PDF, 140.09 KB)Standards of Family Living – Grade 6 (PDF, 136.98 KB)Standards of Family Living – Grade 7 (PDF, 152.39 KB)Standards of Family Living – Grade 8 (PDF, 140.09 KB)WashingtonHealth Education – 6 Grade (PDF, 259.95 KB)Health Education – 7 Grade (PDF, 235.13 KB)Health Education – 8 Grade (PDF, 241.59 KB)West VirginiaMiddle School Health Education Grade 6 (PDF, 832.83 KB)
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