Looking for awkward-proof sex ed resources for your next human development and sexuality unit? I've got you covered! Here are five comprehensive sex ed resources I've used with middle and high schoolers, in my university sexuality class, and during parent workshops. They're an interactive and fun way to introduce medically accurate sexual health knowledge.

Looking for a summative health project that is not only fun but something that will actually help students improve their mental health? Look no further than the Mental Health First Aid Kit. It checks all the boxes: showcases students' mental health knowledge, assesses their ability to use the SHAPE America health skills, and is a practical tool they can use in the future.

Struggling to make mental health click for your students? The Mental Health Bucket is a powerful visual tool that turns an abstract concept into something students can actually see, understand, and apply to their own lives. Plus, help students learn the difference between emotional regulation skills and life management skills, while creating common language and a check-in routine.

This museum style learning station helps students understand advocacy and influence through hands on health education. As students explore interactive exhibits connected to sleep, hygiene, physical activity, safety, body image, and nutrition, they analyze real world examples of self-advocacy, individual advocacy, and systems advocacy while learning how influences affect how we feel, think, and act.

Teach students how to regulate their emotions with a balloon and five learning stations. The balloon gives students a great visual to understand big emotions and the stations give them an opportunity to practice emotional regulation strategies. Let's explore how it works.

This quick, easy, and meaningful hand washing sequence is designed specifically for elementary health. It breaks the process into clear, student friendly steps, helping them build confidence and consistency as they practice an everyday health habit.

Students loved this interactive emotion lesson plan. In The Emotions Detective School activity, students become expert emotion detectives as they learn how to identify emotions in themselves and others. They explore the purpose of different emotions, search for body, word, and situation clues, and practice healthy ways to express big feelings. Students stay engaged, move around, and build critical emotional skills.

Get students talking about personal hygiene with this interactive matching activity. This hygiene wheel instant activity, introduces students to six hygiene classifications: body, sleep, teeth, hand, sickness, and toilet hygiene.

Help students see sleep as more than just a bedtime rule. This interactive learning station activity invites students to move, explore, and think critically about why sleep matters. As they rotate through stations, students discover key benefits of sleep and record their learning in a mini booklet, turning abstract health concepts into meaningful, memorable takeaways they can actually use.

Bring anatomy to life in your classroom with this engaging Body Systems Worksheet and Learning Station Activity. Students rotate through six interactive stations to explore how the circulatory, digestive, muscular, respiratory, nervous, and skeletal systems keep them healthy and strong.

Bring energy and excitement to your elementary health and PE lessons with this hands-on activity! Students will explore four key types of physical activity - flexibility, strength, balance, and cardio - through fun, engaging fitness stations.

Details about the activity: After rotating through each station, they’ll create their own physical activity bingo card to take home, helping them connect classroom learning to real-life movement. Perfect for elementary PE stations or an elementary fitness lesson that keeps kids active, curious, and confident about their health.

Help students explore what it really means to care for their bodies with this interactive, hands-on learning station activity. Designed for middle and high school health classes, this lesson invites students to examine six essential aspects of body care - body image and relationships with the body, hygiene, physical activity, food and water, safety, and sleep - through engaging, student-centered exploration.

Kick off the school year with a health twist on the classic All About Me poster! The My “BEST” Backpack activity helps students reflect on their personal well-being while learning the BEST Model - Body, Environment, Self, and (Social) Ties. It’s a fun, creative way to help students connect who they are to what it means to be healthy. Perfect for first-week lessons that blend self-awareness, creativity, and holistic health.

Here’s a look at what I taught this week in preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school health class.