Standards-aligned learning objectives focused on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can understand that people, places, and things influence how they feel, think, and act.

✅ Students can identify people who make them feel safe, happy, or nervous.

✅ Students can describe spaces that help them feel comfortable, calm, or cozy.

✅ Students can recognize who and what influences their choices and how they act.

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 Feelings Scavenger Hunt: Give students a list of emotions, thoughts, and actions. Have them find people, places, or things in their life that influence each one.

🔎 Picture Book Influence Detective: Read a picture book and pause to ask questions like, “Who is influencing this character?” or “What made them act that way?”

🔎 Daily Check-In: Use a simple prompt like “Who made you feel brave/happy/curious today?” to help students build awareness of daily influences.

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 Wheel of Influence: Students create a personalized “Wheel of Influence,” identifying key people, places, and things that influence how they feel, think, and act. Each section of the wheel should include a drawing or short explanation to show how that influence impacts them.

Standards-aligned learning objectives focused on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can define what an influence is and how it impacts well-being.

✅ Students can identify specific influences in their lives, such as friends, family, media, and environment.

✅ Students can use the SCAN skill cue (Situation, Core influences, Analyze, Now what?) to examine how those influences affect how they feel, think, and act.

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 SCAN Sequencing Activity: Introduce the SCAN skill cue (Situation, Core Influences, Analyze, Now What?) by having students arrange the steps in order and apply them to simple scenarios.

🔎 Influence Ranking: Create a green–yellow–orange–red rating scale and have students rate how different influences affect their well-being.

🔎 Influence Scavenger Hunt: Teach common types of influences (e.g., family, media, culture) and have students find real-life examples from their own life, their friends, or media content.

🔎 Analyzing Influences Game: A board game where students practice the S.C.A.N. skill cues. 

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 SCAN Report Card: Students apply the SCAN skill cue (Situation, Core Influences, Analyze, Now What?) to a teacher-selected scenario. They evaluate the situation, identify key influences, analyze the impact, and propose a thoughtful response or action.

Learning Standards

Standards-aligned learning objectives focused on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can independently identify and assess the influences shaping their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

✅ Students can reflect on how they influence others and make choices to be a positive influence.

✅ Students can recognize and navigate negative or harmful influences in their lives using critical thinking and health-enhancing strategies (i.e. S.C.A.N. Skill Cues).

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 SCAN Report Card: Analyze a fictional character from a book, show, or movie using the SCAN steps. Grade the character’s influences and how they handled them.

🔎 Influence Journal: Use quick, daily prompts like “Who did I influence today?” or “How was I influenced today?” to build self-awareness and reflection.

🔎 Viral Moments Analysis: Students bring in a viral trend or moment from media and work as a group to analyze who’s influencing it, why it’s effective, and how it shapes thoughts, behaviors, or feelings.

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 Real-Life Influence Case Study: Students select a relevant health issue affecting themselves or their peers (e.g., social media use, vaping, mental health, body image). Using the SCAN skill cue, they complete a case study analyzing what’s happening, the major influences involved, how those influences are affecting well-being, and provide realistic, meaningful recommendations for navigating those influences.