Description
Book SynopsisLife Skills is a practical resource that gives teachers 225 ready-to-use worksheets that cover a wide variety of key life skills. The book addresses topics such as drug and alcohol use, sex, relationships, stress, food-related issues, and self-esteem.
Life Skills is an easy-to-use, time-saving book that is designed for grades 6-12 and helpful for both new and seasoned teachers. For quick access and easy use, the worksheets are organized into eight sections and are printed in a large 8 1/2 x 11 format that folds flat for photocopying. Here's an overview of what you'll find in each section:
Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking: Trends in smoking, second-hand smoke, reasons why people smoke and ways to help people quit, facts about drug use, the classification of different drugs, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as drinking and driving.
Sex and Sex-Related Issues: Male and female sex organs, why people have sex, facts and myths, birth control, opti
Table of Contents
About the Author v
About This Book vii
Section 1 Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking
1 Word Association 2
2 What Drug Am I? 3
3 Trends in Tobacco Use 4
4 Time Line: A Short History of Tobacco and Cigarette Use 5
5 Thoughts About Secondhand Smoke 6
6 Young Kids and Smoking 7
7 Show Me the Money 8
8 Getting Tough on Smoking: An Editorial 9
9 Antismoking Slogans 10
10 You Be the Judge 11
11 Classifying the Types of Drugs 12
12 The Types-of-Drugs Chart 13
13 Facts and Myths on Drug Use 14
14 Time Line: History of Drug Regulations in the United States 15
15 Drug Use and Different Ages 16
16 The Drug-Use Continuum 17
17 The Marijuana Expert 18
18 To Legalize or Not to Legalize? 19
19 A Venn Diagram Comparing Tobacco and Marijuana 20
20 Caffeine 21
21 The Truth About Anabolic Steroids 22
22 Tic-Tac Drugs: Teacher Page 23
22aTic-Tac Drugs: Student Page 24
23 The Effects of Alcohol 25
24 Is Drinking a Problem for You? 26
25 Reasons, Reasons, Reasons 27
26 The Staircase of Decisions with Drinking 28
27 The Gray of Alcoholism 29
28 Thoughts About Drinking and Driving 30
29 A Letter from a Child with FAS 31
30 Express Yourself 32
31 Word Removal 33
Section 2 Sex and Sex-related Issues
32 Words and Slang 36
33 Facts and Myths About Sex 37
34 Reasons Why People Have Sex 38
35 Sexuality Throughout Our Lifetime 39
36 The Four Phases of Sexual Intercourse 40
37 Male versus Female 41
38 The Birth Control Chart 42
39 Birth Control Crossword 43
40 No Condom, No Sex: Talking to Your Partner About Condoms 44
41 Dr. Birth Control 45
42 Some Thoughts on Abstinence 46
42aThe Some-Thoughts-on-Abstinence Chart 47
43 What Should Vanessa Do? 48
44 Facts About Adoption 49
45 What to Avoid During Pregnancy 50
46 Stages in the Womb 51
47 STI Unscramble 52
48 Dr. STI 53
49 Ways of Acquiring HIV 54
50 Attitudes About AIDS: We’ve Come a Long Way Since the 1980s 55
51 A Poem About an AIDS Victim 56
52 Facts About Homosexuality 57
53 Options for Couples Who Want a Child (But Are Having Infertility Problems) 58
54 Surrogate Rights 59
55 Sexual Harassment Facts 60
56 Sexual Harassment or Not Sexual Harassment? 61
57 Date Rape 62
58 Date-Rape Decisions 63
59 Finish the Story 64
60 Dear Rudy 65
61 Sex Jeopardy 66
62 It Takes Three 67
63 Alphabet Soup 68
Section 3 Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family
64 A Relationship Balloon Tree 70
65 The Relationship Chart 71
66 Circle of Friends 72
67 Different Friends, Different Occasions 73
68 All About Cliques 74
69 Break the Clique 75
70 Finish the Sentences on Dating 76
71 The Singles Ads 77
72 How Do Couples Meet? 78
73 Steps in a Relationship 79
74 Is It Love or Infatuation? 80
75 Love Quotations 81
76 Sternberg’s Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet 1 82
77 Sternberg’s Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet 2 83
78 Sternberg’s Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet 3 84
79 What Type of Lover Are You? 85
80 What Matters to You? 86
81 Qualities You Seek in a Mate 87
82 To Live Together or Not to Live Together 88
83 Marriage Quotations 89
84 Marriage Vows 90
85 A Marriage Check-off List 91
86 How Expensive Is It? 92
87 Talk-Show Marriage Talk 93
88 Can These Marriages Be Saved? 94
89 Why Do Relationships End? 95
90 Looking at the Family 96
91 Family Challenges 97
92 If Parenthood Required a License 98
93 Stages in the Family Life Cycle 99
94 Who’s in What Stage of the Family Life Cycle? 100
Section 4 Life Skills
95 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 102
96 Maslow’s Needs and You 103
97 A Goal Chart 104
98 High and Low Self-Esteem 105
99 Improving Your Self-Esteem 106
100 Peer Pressure and You 107
101 Learning Assertiveness 108
102 More on Assertiveness 109
103 Dealing with Difficult People 110
104 Conflict Outcomes 111
105 The Steps in Decision Making 112
106 Good Leader, Weak Leader (Part 1) 113
106a Good Leader, Weak Leader (Part 2) 114
107 Wawa Island: A Team-Building Activity 115
108 Are You an Effective Communicator? 117
109 Name That Communication Blocker 118
110 Techniques for Saying No 119
111 Communication Scenarios 120
112 What Are They Really Saying? 121
113 A Paired Listening Exercise: Teacher Page 122
113a A Paired Listening Exercise: Student Page, Script A 123
113b A Paired Listening Exercise: Student Page, Script B 124
114 Help Fatima Manage Her Time (Part 1) 125
115 Help Fatima Manage Her Time (Part 2) 126
116 Managing Your Time (Part 1) 127
117 Managing Your Time (Part 2) 128
118 What Do You Do? 129
119 Fatima’s Errands: A Time Management Activity 130
120 Types of Violence 131
121 Is Your School Violent? 132
122 Top 10 Pieces of Advice to Live By 133
123 Advice in Code 134
Section 5 Stress
124 Are You Vulnerable to Stress? 136
125 The Life Change Index 137
126 What Is Their Life Change Index? 138
127 Good Stress versus Bad Stress 139
128 Top 10 Sources of Stress 140
129 Stress in Various Aspects of Your Life 141
130 Three Generations of Stress 142
131 Long-Term Stress versus Short-Term Stress 143
132 ZZZzzz: Sleep Patterns 144
133 Sources-of-Stress Game 145
134 The Four Stages of Stress 146
135 Fight or Flight 147
136 Those Stressful Reactions 148
137 Reacting to Stressful Situations 149
138 Relaxation Bingo 150
139 Getting Physical 151
140 Support Systems 152
141 How Can You Help Your Stressed Friend? 153
142 A Suicide Awareness Quiz 154
143 Dealing with a Grieving Friend 155
144 Thoughts on Death and Dying 156
145 The Five Stages of Grief 157
146 Which Stage of Grief (in Dying Patients)? 158
Section 6 Food and Food-related Issues
147 Food Associations 160
148 A Healthy-Eating Report Card 161
149 An Eating-Habits Survey 162
150 Favorite Food 163
151 A Food Pyramid Puzzle 164
152 Factors Affecting Your Food Choices 165
153 “Weight” and See 166
154 A Day in the Life of Your Stomach 167
155 Calorie Calculations 168
156 What to Know About H 2 O 169
157 Let’s Learn About Vitamins 170
158 Cholesterol: Fact or Fiction 171
159 Protein Fill-in-the-Blanks 172
160 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fiber 173
161 Fat Habits and You 174
162 Fat Classification 175
163 Fat Reduction 176
164 Crazy About Carbohydrates 177
165 Our Addiction to Additives 178
166 Food Categories 179
167 Just Because It’s a Salad Doesn’t Mean It’s Healthy 180
168 Can You Help These Eaters? 181
169 An Eating Disorder True-False Quiz 182
170 Name That Disorder 183
171 Signs of an Eating Disorder 184
172 The Dos and Don’ts of Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder 185
173 The Food-Vocabulary Word Game 186
Section 7 Your Body and Body Image
174 What Is Your Body Type? 188
175 Calculate Your BMI 189
176 Body Image and You 190
176a Body Image and You: Questions 191
177 Body Image and the Sexes 192
178 Cosmetic Plastic Surgery 193
179 Body-Parts Connections 194
180 Body-Parts Vocabulary 195
181 Muscle Word Search 196
182 Right Muscle, Right Exercise 197
183 The Human Skeleton Crossword 198
184 Female Reproductive System Vocabulary 199
185 Male Reproductive System Vocabulary 200
186 The Respiratory System Matching Exercise 201
187 The Digestion Puzzle 202
188 The Sun and Your Skin 203
189 Genetics and Your Health 204
190 Dr. Doctor’s Magic Square 205
191 What Makes You Ill? 206
192 Five Diseases and Conditions That May Affect Teens 207
193 Basic First-Aid Crossword 208
194 Diagnose the Emergency 209
195 Preventing Cardiovascular Disease 210
196 A Fitness Survey 211
197 Components of Fitness 212
198 Anaerobic Energy, Aerobic Energy, and DOM 213
199 Keeping Fit Without Doing Aerobics 214
Section 8 Self-esteem and Knowing Yourself
200 What’s in a Name? 216
201 I Am 217
202 Graffiti You 218
203 The YOU Report Card 219
204 What You Like to Do 220
205 You Are Where You Live 221
206 What Would They Say About You? 222
207 Backing It Up with Examples 223
208 How Have These Outside Factors Shaped You? 224
209 Personality and You 225
210 Personality and Physical, Mental, and Social Health 226
211 What’s Your Personality? 227
212 A, B, C, D Personality Types 228
213 Birth Order and Personality 229
214 Handwriting and Your Personality 230
215 Astrological Signs and Your Personality 231
216 What Do You Value? 232
217 What Are Your Values . . . ? 233
218 A Values Auction 234
219 Weaknesses 235
220 A Few of Your Favorite Things 236
221 Using Your Five Senses 237
222 Highs/Lows and You 238
223 A Room with a Clue 239
224 Cartoons, Colors, and Cars 240
225 If 241
Answer Key 243
Bibliography 261
