Author: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Lindsay Armbruster, and Mary McCarley

Essential Health Skills for Middle School is a complete educational package for teaching skills-based health education in the classroom. This third edition features core health topics such as nutrition, physical activity, and mental health plus cutting-edge health topics, such as vaping, opioid addiction, body positivity, self-compassion, social media, mindfulness, online communication and relationships, and COVID-19. Content and skills align to the National Health Education Standards.

Table of Contents

Abbreviated Contents

Essential Health Skills for Middle School 3e

• Front Matter
• To the Student
• Unit 1 Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellness
• • 1 - Understanding Your Health and Wellness
  • 2 - Knowing How Your Body Works
  • 3 - Developing Good Personal Hygiene
  • 4 - Getting the Sleep You Need
• Unit 2 Taking Care of Mental and Emotional Health
• • 5 - Understanding Mental and Emotional Health
  • 6 - Understanding Mental Illnesses
• Unit 3 Nutrition and Physical Activity
• • 7 - Nutrition
  • 8 - Physical Activity
• Unit 4 Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
• • 9 - Tobacco and Vaping
  • 10 - Alcohol
  • 11 - Medications and Drugs
• Unit 5 Protecting Your Physical Health and Safety
• • 12 - Understanding and Preventing Diseases
  • 13 - Promoting Safety and Preventing Injuries
  • 14 - Protecting Environmental Health
• Unit 6 Social Health and Wellness
• • 15 - Promoting Healthy Relationships
  • 16 - Preventing and Responding to Violence
• Unit 7 Human Development and Reproductive Health
• • 17 - Human Development
  • 18 - Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
• Appendix Body Mass Index-for-Age Percentiles
• Glossary/Glosario
• Index