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Middle School Health Curriculum
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Curriculum Outline
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Level One
6th Grade Health Curriculum
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Level Two
7th Grade Health Curriculum
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Level Three
8th Grade Health Curriculum
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Level One Index
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Level One Only
MS Yearlong (Levels 1, 2, & 3 Combined)
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Lesson #1: Health: My Life
Lesson #2: Dimensions of Health
Lesson #3: Everything’s Connected
Lesson #4: Living Your Best Life
Lesson #5: Healthy Habits
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Lesson #1: Physical Health: My Body
Lesson #2: How to Be Physically Healthy
Lesson #3: My Physically Healthy Life
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Lesson #1: Emotional & Mental Health: My Heart and Mind
Lesson #2: Identifying Emotions
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Emotions
Lesson #3: Getting to Know Your Emotions
Lesson #4: Healthy Habits for Expressing Emotions
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Lesson #1: Social Health: My Relationships
Lesson #2: How to Be a Great Friend
Lesson #3: Healthy Habits for Making Friends
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Lesson 1: Spiritual Health: My Values
Lesson 2: Understanding Core Values
Lesson 3: Living By Your Values
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Lesson #1: Financial Health: My Money
Lesson #2: Money & Your Well-Being
Lesson #3: Financial LIteracy 101
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Lesson #1: Occupational Health: My Job
Lesson #2: How to Thrive at Work
Lesson #3: Accessing Valid Information
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Lesson #1: Environmental Health: My Surroundings
Lesson #2: My Environment and Its Impact
Lesson #3: Design Your Ideal Classroom
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Lesson #1: Intellectual Health: My Knowledge
Lesson #2: How to Be Intellectually Healthy
Lesson #3: Super Intellectual Health
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Summative Project - How to Boost Well-Being
Level Two Index
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Level Two Only
MS Yearlong (Levels 1, 2, & 3 Combined)
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Lesson #1: My Life & Why Health Matters
Lesson #2: Reviewing Health Basics
Lesson #3: Assess Health Influences (Skill Intro: Analyze Influences)
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Lesson #1: How School Influences Physical Health
Lesson #2: Risk of Being Physically Unhealthy
Lesson #3: Physical Health Cheat Sheet
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Lesson #1: Reviewing Emotional & Mental Health
Lesson #2: Living With Confidence
Lesson #3: Loving Yourself
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Personality
Lesson #4: Positively Impacting Your community
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Lesson #1: Reviewing Social Health
Lesson #2: Healthy v. Unhealthy Relationships
Lesson #3: Media Audit: Relationships
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Lesson #1: Where Do Values Come From?
Lesson #2: Your Moral Compass
Lesson #3: Influence Report Card
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Lesson #1: Reviewing Financial Literacy
Lesson #2: Spending Wisely: Needs vs. Wants
Lesson #3: Budgeting 101
Lesson #4: Making a Personal Budget
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Lesson #1: Values-Based Decisions (Skills Intro: Health Decision Making)
Lesson #2: What Really Matters When Choosing a Job
Lesson #3: Career Appraisal
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Lesson #1: Your Environment and Your Well-Being
Lesson #2: Being Eco-Friendly
Lesson #3: Living an Eco-Friendly LIfe
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Lesson #1: Assessing Intellectual Health
Lesson #2: Analyzing Health Influences
Lesson #3: Overcoming Health Roadblocks
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Summative Project - How School Influences Student Well-Being
Level Three Index
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Level Two Only
MS Yearlong (Levels 1, 2, & 3 Combined)
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Lesson #1: Taking Control of Your Health
Lesson #2: Assessing Your Health
Lesson #3: Writing Health Goals
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Lesson #1: Nutrition Basics
Lesson #2: How to Eat a Healthy Diet
Lesson #3: Digital Activity: Food Label
Lesson #4: Lunch Tray Report Card
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Lesson #1: Reviewing Mental Health
Lesson #2: Stress & How to Manage It
Lesson #3: Dealing With Challenges
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Mental Health
Lesson #4: Analyzing Influences on Mental Health
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Lesson #1: Social Health & Happiness
Lesson #2: Social Life Satisfaction
Lesson #3: Communication Skills for Relationships
Lesson #4: Navigating Social Conflict
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Lesson #1: Discover Your Purpose
Lesson #2: Writing a Mission Statement
Lesson #3: How to Live Your Mission
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Lesson #1: Principles of Saving Money
Lesson #2: Invest: Making Your Money Grow
Lesson #3: Giving Back: Making a Difference
Lesson #4: Setting Financial Goals
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Lesson #1: Examining Your Dream Job
Lesson #2: How to Succeed in Your Dream Job
Lesson #3: Career Fair
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Lesson #1: Assessing Environmental Health
Lesson #2: Is School Impacting Environmental Health?
Lesson #3: Creating a School-Wide Environmental Health Campaign
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Lesson #1: What it Means to Be Creative
Lesson #2: Expressing Creativity
Lesson #3: Using Creativity to Share Your Passion
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Summative Project - Design a Healthy School
Topic-Specific Units
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Lesson #1: Health: My Life
Lesson #2: Dimensions of Health
Lesson #3: Everything’s Connected
Lesson #4: Living Your Best Life
Lesson #5: Healthy Habits
Lesson #6: My Life & Why Health Matters
Lesson #7: Reviewing Health Basics
Lesson #8: Assess Health Influences (Skill Intro: Analyze Influences)
Lesson #9: Taking Control of Your Health
Lesson #10: Assessing Your Health
Lesson #11: Writing Health Goals
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Lesson #1: Occupational Health: My Job
Lesson #2: How to Thrive at Work
Lesson #3: Accessing Valid Information
Lesson #4: Values-Based Decisions (Skills Intro: Health Decision Making)
Lesson #5: What Really Matters When Choosing a Job
Lesson #6: Career Appraisal
Lesson #7: Examining Your Dream Job
Lesson #8: How to Succeed in Your Dream Job
Lesson #9: Career Fair
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Lesson 1: Spiritual Health: My Values
Lesson 2: Understanding Core Values
Lesson 3: Living By Your Values
Lesson #4: Where Do Values Come From?
Lesson #5: Your Moral Compass
Lesson #6: Influence Report Card
Lesson #7: Discover Your Purpose
Lesson #8: Writing a Mission Statement
Lesson #9: How to Live Your Mission
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Lesson #1: Emotional & Mental Health: My Heart and Mind
Lesson #2: Identifying Emotions
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Emotions
Lesson #3: Getting to Know Your Emotions
Lesson #4: Healthy Habits for Expressing Emotions
Optional: Reviewing Emotional & Mental Health
Lesson #5: Living With Confidence
Lesson #6: Loving Yourself
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Personality
Lesson #7: Positively Impacting Your community
Lesson #8: Reviewing Mental Health
Lesson #9: Stress & How to Manage It
Lesson #10: Dealing With Challenges
Bonus Lesson: Inside & Out of Mental Health
Lesson #11: Analyzing Influences on Mental Health
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Lesson #1: Environmental Health: My Surroundings
Lesson #2: My Environment and Its Impact
Lesson #3: Design Your Ideal Classroom
Lesson #4: Your Environment and Your Well-Being
Lesson #5: Being Eco-Friendly
Lesson #6: Living an Eco-Friendly LIfe
Lesson #7: Assessing Environmental Health
Lesson #8: Is School Impacting Environmental Health?
Lesson #9: Creating a School-Wide Environmental Health Campaign
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Lesson #1: Financial Health: My Money
Lesson #2: Money & Your Well-Being
Lesson #3: Financial LIteracy 101
Optional: Reviewing Financial Literacy
Lesson #4: Spending Wisely: Needs vs. Wants
Lesson #5: Budgeting 101
Lesson #6: Making a Personal Budget
Lesson #7: Principles of Saving Money
Lesson #8: Invest: Making Your Money Grow
Lesson #9: Giving Back: Making a Difference
Lesson #10: Setting Financial Goals
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Getting to Know Your Emotions
Express Yourself
Mental Health and Its Impact
Personality Islands
Discussion Questions
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Lesson #1: Intellectual Health: My Knowledge
Lesson #2: How to Be Intellectually Healthy
Lesson #3: Super Intellectual Health
Lesson #4: Assessing Intellectual Health
Lesson #5: Analyzing Health Influences
Lesson #6: Overcoming Health Roadblocks
Lesson #7: What it Means to Be Creative
Lesson #8: Expressing Creativity
Lesson #9: Using Creativity to Share Your Passion
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Lesson #1: Physical Health: My Body
Lesson #2: How to Be Physically Healthy
Lesson #3: My Physically Healthy Life
Lesson #4: How School Influences Physical Health
Lesson #5: Risk of Being Physically Unhealthy
Lesson #6: Physical Health Cheat Sheet
Lesson #7: Nutrition Basics
Lesson #8: How to Eat a Healthy Diet
Lesson #9: Digital Activity: Food Label
Lesson #10: Lunch Tray Report Card
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Unit Plans - Buy | Free Access for MS Members
Lesson #1: Social Health: My Relationships
Lesson #2: How to Be a Great Friend
Lesson #3: Healthy Habits for Making Friends
Lesson #4: Reviewing Social Health
Lesson #5: Healthy v. Unhealthy Relationships
Lesson #6: Media Audit: Relationships
Lesson #7: Social Health & Happiness
Lesson #8: Social Life Satisfaction
Lesson #9: Communication Skills for Relationships
Lesson #10: Navigating Social Conflict
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Lesson 1: Why Sex Ed Matters!
Lesson 2: Introduction to Sex Ed
Lesson 3: Puberty & How Bodies Change - - with Puberty Learning Station activity
Printable: Play-Doh Mat
Video: How Periods Work
Lesson 4: Hygiene Checklist
Lesson 5: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Lesson 6: The Reproductive System - - with Bingo! review game
Lesson 7: How Pregnancy Works!
Printable: Play-Doh Mat
Video: How Pregnancy Work
Lesson 8: Contraceptives & How to Prevent Pregnancy - - with Four-in-a-Row review game
Lesson 9: Understanding Abstinence
Lesson 10: Consent & Safety
Lesson 11: Types of Touch
Lesson 12: Building Healthy Relationships - - with mini-poster activity
Lesson 13: Love or Just a Crush
Lesson 14: Decision Making - - with mini-poster activity
Health Skills Toolkit
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Lesson #1: Analyzing Health Influences
Lesson #2: Accessing Valid Information
Lesson #3: Communication Skills For Relationships
Lesson #4: Navigating Social Conflict
Lesson #5: Making Healthy Decisions
Lesson #6: Making Decisions In Real Life
Lesson #7: How To Make Healthy Decisions
Lesson #8: Assess Your Health
Lesson #9: Writing Health Goals
Lesson #10: Taking Control Of My Health
Lesson #11: Healthy Habits
Lesson #12: What Is Advocacy?
Lesson #13: How To Advocate
Lesson #14: Advocating For Your Health
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IDEA Skill Cues for Standard #1: Building and Applying Functional Knowledge
SCAN Skill Cues for Standard #2: Analyzing Influences
Analyzing Influences: Think, Feel, and Act
PROVE It Skill Cues for Standard #3: Accessing Valid Resources
ACT Skill Cues for Standard #3: Accessing Health Services
TALK Skill Cues for Standard #4: Communication
Identifying Personal Boundaries
WISE Skill Cues for Standard #5: Decision Making
What’s BEST vs. WISE Sorting for Standard #5: Decision Making
GROW Skill Cues for Standard #6: Goal Setting
Pause, Reflect, and Act Skill Cues for Standard #7: Self-Management
ASK Skill Cues for Standard #8: Advocacy
VOICE Skill Cues for Standard #8: Advocacy
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The Influence Game (Analyzing Influences) - Buy | Free Access for Members
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Health Skills Learning Adventure - Buy | Free Access for Members
SPY School: The PROVE It Protocol (Fact-Checking Learning Stations) - Buy | Free Access for Members
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Health Skills Toolbox
Bookmark: Pause, Reflect, and Act
Healthy Habit Spinner (End-of-Year)
Health Skills Posters
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(Analyzing Influences) Influence Report Card
(Access Valid Information) Validity Report Card
(Self-Management) The BEST Model Check-In
(Goal Setting) GROW Formula for Setting Goals
(Advocacy) Self-Advocacy Mantras
(Decision Making) How to Make a Decision
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