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Activity
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Eat Healthy • Be Active Community Workshops

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Recipe makeovers, healthy alternatives, quick tips for a nutritious lifestyle...this 187-page document has it all! Don't miss a thorough packet of workshop activities and handouts designed to support your teaching of the...
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Workbook
Henry The Hand

Good, Clean Fun!

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Henry the Hand leads youngsters on an exciting adventure through coloring worksheets, word puzzles, and comic strips on everything they need to know about preventing the spread of germs by washing your hands.
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Handout
food.uk.gov

Kitchen Check

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Storing the food in the fridge, keeping the kitchen clean, and preparing food correctly are the focus topics of this food safety resource. It includes well-designed handouts with top tips to remember, coloring worksheets, and answer keys.
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Unit Plan
University of Rhode Island

Food Safety Smart Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This is a must-have resource with everything you'll need for studying food safety with your pupils. From handwashing scorecards and cleaning kitchen surfaces to navigating the world of microbes and food-borne illnesses,...
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Lesson Plan
HealthTeacher

Get More Sleep

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Help learners identify habits that interfere with sleep and to understand the importance of adequate rest and its impact on not only physical health, but also emotional wellbeing.
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Lesson Plan
Seattle & King County Family-Planning Program

Gender Roles

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Youth Obesity: Schools Fight Back

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Kids fight obesity by comparing the USDA food intake suggestions to what they personally consume throughout the day. They watch a video, read texts, and explore related vocabulary which they use as they compose an oral presentation. 
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PPT
Curated OER

Helping Adolescents Deal with Peer Pressure

For Teachers 12th
Designed by a mental health center, this presentation is meant to educate educators how to help teens face peer pressure. Tips are provided for identifying at-risk youth and bullying situations. This would be a poignant topic to include...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Consuming Healthy Snacks

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Get your class into great shape by introducing them to the benefits of eating healthy snacks and engaing in regular exercise. This set of activities comes with all the worksheets and handouts needed to complete several weeks of nutrition...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sexual Abuse: Recognizing & Reporting

For Teachers 5th - 12th
This is not a lesson per se but there is some very good information. We, as teachers, are bound by law to report abuse. If you are comfortable, I think it's a good idea to let your classes know that you care and that this is a duty you...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Health Database Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate the ability to identify personal health needs. They classify foods from the school lunch menus into the correct food groups. A database file is created. They determine if the school lunch menu offers a balanced...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Child Nutrition Unit

For Teachers 7th - 10th
How much fun can you have teaching adolescents about nutrition? Try taking them to work with preschoolers for an hour! This 4-day mini-unit about the importance of nutrition early in life culminates with a field trip. It was written for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lab Experiments in Nutrition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for authentic hands-on nutritional experiments? High schoolers will perform experiments to test for the presence of vitamin C in several solutions as well as the effect of caffeine on Daphnia. They will also consider the...
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Worksheet
Nemours KidsHealth

Eating Disorders: Healthy Advertising

For Students 6th - 8th
In this eating disorders instructional activity, students use drawings or photos from magazines to create an ad for blue jeans. They use realistic body types and positive messages about body image and types. The instructional activity...
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Assessment
Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Quiz (Grades 6-8)

For Students 6th - 8th
In this healthy snacking and diet quiz, students answer 10 multiple-choice and true-and-false questions that assess their understanding of healthy eating habits.
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Assessment
Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Quiz (Grades 9-12)

For Students 9th - 12th
Test your learners' healthy snacking know-how with this quiz. This quiz is made up of 10 questions about how to choose a healthy snack. Topics include food labels, carbohydrates, healthy snack choices, and high-fat foods. Use this quiz...
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Worksheet
Nemours KidsHealth

School Lunch: With Great Lunch Comes Great Responsibility

For Students 9th - 12th
In this nutrition instructional activity, students create a comic strip about meals, nutrition, food groups, and the messages celebrities send about weight and nutrition. Students sum up their message with one sentence after drawing...
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Organizer
Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Snack Report Card

For Students 9th - 12th
In this healthy snacking worksheet, students complete a "report card" for snacks found at their school. They include the type of snack, the grams of carbohydrates, sugar, protein, and fat, the calories, the vitamins, and the grade they...
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Organizer
Nemours KidsHealth

Conflict Resolution: Mixed Messages?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this personal health conflict resolution learning exercise, students organize their ideas for a one-page essay by responding to three short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Nemours KidsHealth

Media Literacy and Health: What’s the Truth?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this personal health media literacy worksheet, students use the eight questions on this sheet to evaluate a health news report on television. Students write paragraphs the determine whether the reports are valid sources of information.
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Writing
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Self Esteem Experts

Self Confidence Worksheet

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Boost the confidence of adolescents with a series of self-esteem worksheets. Prompting learners to think about their experiences growing up, this resource helps pupils build a positive self-image and develop strategies for...
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Lesson Plan
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Nemours KidsHealth

Cyberbullying: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A bully, a victim, and a bystander—far from the beginning of a joke, cyberbullying is no laughing matter. Bystander or upstander? As part of the study of cyberbullying, high schoolers first read a series of articles about cyberbullying...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Bullying: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars learn to shut down the rumor mill by asking three questions: "Is it kind?" "Is it true?" "Is it necessary?" in an 11-page packet that details three activities designed to make a difference at your school. Here, pupils run for...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Smoking: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The increase in the number of restrictions placed on smoking represents a clear shift in the understanding of the dangers of both the short term and long term consequences of tobacco use. But people still light up. Three activities help...