Description
Book SynopsisLesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education offers 64 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable, and it addresses all the skills in the National Health Education Standards.
Table of ContentsPart I. Skills-Based Health Education: An Overview
Chapter 1. Skills-Based Health Education: An Overview
Alignment With the National Health Education Standards
Skill Development and Assessment
Participatory Methods
Functional Information
Chapter 2. Designing Your Health Curriculum
Eight Steps of Curriculum Design
Using This Text
Part II. Skills in the Classroom
Chapter 3. Developing the Skill of Accessing Valid and Reliable Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Students’ Health
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: To Trust or Not To Trust
Lesson 2: ACCESSing Valid and Reliable Information, Products, and Services
Lesson 3: Grocery Games
Lesson 4: Is It Healthy?
Lessons 5 and 6: Podcasts
Lessons 7 and 8: Who and What Is in My Neighborhood?
Bonus Activity
Chapter 4. Helping Students to Analyze Influences on Their Health
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Influences, Influences, All Around
Lesson 2: Web of Influences
Lesson 3: What Would You Do?
Lesson 4: Perceptions, Norms, and Behavior
Lesson 5: Exploring the Impact of Media
Lessons 6 and 7: Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lesson 8: Social Media and Technology
Chapter 5. Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills for Health and Wellness
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: I Wish I Could Talk To . . .
Lesson 2: What Does Effective Communication Look Like, Sound Like, Feel Like?
Lesson 3: Identifying Effective Communication
Lesson 4: Fishing for Healthy Relationships
Lesson 5: Real Life Relationships
Lesson 6: What’s Your Story?
Lessons 7, 8, 9, and 10: Let’s Communicate Together!
Chapter 6. Developing the Skill of Decision Making to Improve Health Outcomes
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Decisions, What Decisions?
Lesson 2: How Do I DECIDE What to Do?
Lesson 3: Using Ethical Tests to Make Decisions
Lessons 4 and 5: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Drug Webquest
Lesson 6: Revisiting the Scene of the Party
Lessons 7 and 8: Let’s Make a Decision
Lesson 9: Let’s Enjoy Some Comics
Chapter 7. Learning to Set Goals to Enhance Our Health
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: There Is Life After High School . . . Where Do You Want It to Lead?
Lesson 2: Introduction to the Dimensions of Wellness
Lesson 3: Dimensions of Wellness Self-Assessment
Lesson 4: Got Goals?
Lesson 5: Creating a Vision
Lesson 6: Recruit Your Champions
Lesson 7: Goal Check—Revisit, Reevaluate, and Revise (if Needed)
Lessons 8 and 9: One SMART Celebration
Chapter 8. Self-Management for a Healthy Lifestyle
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Developing Healthy Habits
Lesson 2: Happiness Is Healthy
Lesson 3: Strategies for Increasing Happiness
Lesson 4: Strategies for Increasing Happiness (Continued)
Lesson 5: Healthy Mind, Healthy Me
Lesson 6: Understanding Mental Health
Lesson 7: When to Seek Help and Where to Find It
Lesson 8: Sharing Is Caring
Chapter 9. Teaching Students Advocacy Skills to Improve Health
Skill Overview
Skill Cues
Unit Outline
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: What Is Advocacy?
Lesson 2: Becoming an Advocate
Lesson 3: Data, Data Everywhere!
Lesson 4: Finding Evidence
Lesson 5: Advocacy Action
Lesson 6: Peer Feedback
Lesson 7: Collaborating for a Cause
Lesson 8: The Finishing Touches
Lesson 9: Assessment—Advocacy in Action
