Essential Health Skills for Middle School
By: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Lindsay Armbruster, and Mary McCarleyCopyright: 2019
Subject: Health: Middle School
Grade Level: 6-8
- Essential Health Skills for Middle School is the most up-to-date, skills-based text that help students make good choices regarding their health and well-being. Students learn strategies to be mentally and emotionally healthy, build healthy relationships, avoid hazardous substances, and promote physical health and safety. Content and skills align with the National Health Education Standards for grades 6, 7, and 8.
- Products & Prices 6-12 Education
- Table of Contents
- Unit 1 - Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellness1. Understanding Your Health and Wellness
2. Developing Good Personal Hygiene
3. Getting the Sleep You NeedUnit 2 - Promoting Mental and Emotional Well-Being4. Being Mentally and Emotionally Healthy
5. Getting Help for Mental Health ConditionsUnit 3 - Nutrition and Physical Fitness6. Nutrition
7. Physical FitnessUnit 4 - Understanding and Avoiding Hazardous Substances8. Tobacco
9. Alcohol
10. Medications and DrugsUnit 5 - Protecting Your Physical Health and Safety11. Understanding and Preventing Diseases
12. Preventing and Responding to Accidents and Injuries
13. Protecting Environmental HealthUnit 6 - Social Health and Wellness14. Promoting Healthy Relationships
15. Understanding Violent BehaviorUnit 7 - The Body and How It Develops16. Human Development
17. The Body Systems - The Look Inside images are for preview purposes only. The format of the actual product may vary from the images shown.
- Correlations
- AlabamaHealth Education, Grades 6-8 (143 KB)Idaho CorrelationNational StandardsNational Health Education Standards (Grades 6–8) (PDF, 396 KB)North Carolina CorrelationOregonHealth Education – Grades 6-8 (PDF, 542 KB)Pacing Chart18-Week Course Program Planning Guide (PDF, 182 KB)South CarolinaTexas CorrelationTEKS for Health Education for Middle School, Grade 6 (PDF, 473 KB)TEKS for Health Education for Middle School, Grade 7-8 (PDF, 484 KB)UtahHealth I, Grade 7 or 8 (PDF, 107 KB)Virginia CorrelationWashingtonMiddle School (Grades Six through Eight) (PDF, 674 KB)West VirginiaEssential Health Skills (253 KB)Health Education, Grade 6 (PDF, 116 KB)Health Education, Grade 7 (PDF, 116 KB)Health Education, Grade 8 (PDF, 118 KB)
- About the Author(s)