Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School, 3rd Edition
By: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Lindsay Armbruster, and Mary McCarleyCopyright: 2023
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 third 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, online communication and relationships, and COVID-19. 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 provides 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.
- The G-W Curriculum Center provides extensive supplements including customizable lesson plans for each lesson and chapter review, teacher-directed activities with handouts, parent/other trusted adult engagement assignments, review activities for differentiation, and performance assessments.
- All materials are editable Word DOCX files that provide greater flexibility in their use.
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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
- Alabama CorrelationHealth Education, Grades 6-8 (PDF, 414.24 KB)CaliforniaHealth Education Content Standards For California (Grade 6) (PDF, 318.12 KB)Health Education Content Standards For California (Grades 7–8) (PDF, 505.64 KB)FloridaComprehensive Health Education Grade 6 (PDF, 295.25 KB)Georgia CorrelationGeorgia Standards of Excellence for Health Education (Grades 6-8) (PDF, 337.96 KB)IdahoMiddle School Health Education (PDF, 258.02 KB)IndianaHealth and Wellness - Grades 6 – 8 (PDF, 229 KB)New JerseyComprehensive Health and Physical Education – Grades 6-8 (PDF, 299.03 KB)Virginia CorrelationHealth Education – Grade 6 (PDF, 268.39 KB)Health Education – Grade 7 (PDF, 293.52 KB)Health Education – Grade 8 (PDF, 301.98 KB)
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