Curriculum Resources - Middle School & High School Thematic Units

Life Skills: Preparing Students for the Future

By Myrl Shireman

Guide students toward a healthy lifestyle, both physically and financially! This revised and expanded edition adds much more information on work ethic, nutrition, and exercise; updates the sections on sexually transmitted diseases and drugs; and includes completely new sections on preparing financially for the future. Graphic organizers, self inventories, puzzles, and real-life situations provide creative opportunities for students to assess their own lifestyles and make good choices for the future. Softcover, 128 pages. Ages 12 and up.

Life Skills: Preparing Students for the Future CD-404115......$14.99

Tools for Teaching Health (Grades 6-12)
By Shannon Whalen, Dominick Splendorio and Sal Chiariello

This much needed resource provides teaching strategies that reach young people and engage them in ways that promote healthy behaviors. Each chapter is devoted to one of 7 key topics critical to health education: tobacco, alcohol, drugs, nutrition, sexuality education, violence prevention and physical activity. Designed to offer teachers “pick and choose” teaching strategies to supplement or update an existing health curriculum, this book is filled with a wealth of proven, reproducible, hands-on, student-centered activities that are creative and compelling enough to make students sit up and take notice. Softcover, 300 pages. Ages 10 and up.

Tools for Teaching Health (Grades 6-12) JW-4075......$34.95

Nutrition: Primary Grades Curriculum
This book interprets the new food pyramid for personalized nutrition based on gender, age and physical activity. Games, word searches, matching activities, and simple recipes for classroom preparation of healthy snacks are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 25 pages. Grades K-5.

Nutrition: Middle Grades Curriculum
In addition to interpreting the new food pyramid, this book delves more into the “science” of food – including discussions of food safety (understanding the microbiological activity in foods and how to keep food safe to eat), foods that fight diseases (blood pressure, brittle bones, cancer, heart disease), and other issues. Games, word searches, and matching activities are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 28 pages. Grades 6-8.

Nutrition: Upper Grades Curriculum
In addition to interpreting the new food pyramid, this book digs even deeper into the “science” as well as the economics of food — how marketing effects the kinds of foods introduced to American consumers. The emphasis is on distinguishing nutritious food from junk food. Games, word searches, and matching activities are included. Includes reproducible pages and 8 color overheads. Softcover, 30 pages. Grades 9-12.

Milliken Nutrition Curriculum Series Nutrition: Primary Grades Curriculum LCM-4845......$17.95 Nutrition: Middle Grades Curriculum LCM-4846......$17.95 Nutrition: Upper Grades Curriculum LCM-4847......$17.95

This book will help you plan and implement fitness and nutrition education programs designed to change attitudes and behaviors and improve students’ health while supporting cross-curricular learning. Lessons include modifications for younger and older students and cover all aspects of fitness and nutrition education including MyPyramid.gov. Includes 60 ready-to-use, developmentally appropriate lessons; a CD-ROM with 124 reproducibles (16 family activities, 45 worksheets, 6 transparencies, 27 exercise cards, 24 food cards, and 6 station cards); and multiple assessment techniques. Softcover, 374 pages. Ages 5-12.

Physical Activity for Nutrition and Health HK-5382......$36.00

Help kids make the connection between what they eat, how much exercise they get and their personal fitness. This reproducible, semester-long journal provides an individualized way to track fitness and activity goals. Includes national standards for physical education, MyPyramid, a personal and family fitness and nutrition inventory, motivational tips, an overall fitness plan, and a daily log to track meals, exercise and goals. Softcover, 36 pages. Ages 10 and up.

Nutrition and Activity Journals Elementary Nutrition and Activity Journal (Elementary School) IPG-2412......$9.95 Intermediate Nutrition and Activity Journal (Middle School) IPG-2290......$9.95 Physical Education Nutrition and Activity Journal (High School) IPG-224X......$12.95

If you want to counter the trends of poor diet, inactivity and obesity, put Planet Health to work at your school. This innovative, proven approach to teaching health education is unique in that it reaches across the curriculum and is designed to be used by teachers in all the major subjects, not just physical education. It encourages students to “make space for fitness and nutrition” by reinforcing five key health behaviors related to: healthy eating, physical activity, and limiting “screen time.” Planet Health provides 35 complete, ready-to-use lesson plans and 31 microunits, materials to implement a two-week campaign to reduce media viewing time, and FitCheck, a self-assessment tool to help students track and improve their activity levels. Includes a CD-ROM with handouts, overheads, parent newsletters and fact sheets, teacher training materials, web resources and more. Help your students develop good habits now! Softcover, 580 pages. Ages 11-14.

Planet Health HK-9182......$54.00

Provide “hands-on” learning while teaching nutrition! This kit makes lesson planning easy with ready-made transparencies, background information, worksheets, handouts, quiz and test possibilities, along with attention-getting activities and games. Use to teach all facets of MyPyramid.gov, basic nutrition, meal planning with the dietary guidelines, nutrition facts label and food safety. No other textbook is needed when using the Nutrition Curriculum Kit! Ages 9 to adult.

Nutrition Curriculum Kit JB-A1140......$135.75

Ideal for teaching basic food and nutrition concepts to students and clients. Use these versatile, interactive activities and games to introduce topics, for topic review, and as quizzes or reinforcement! Five categories include: MyPyramid, Nutrients, Portion Sizing, Food Labeling, and Food Safety. The 15 questions within each category range from basic to challenging. Informational pages and student worksheets are reproducible for use as handouts, study guides, homework assignments or quizzes. Complete activity and game instructions are included in the teacher’s guide along with 8 prepared overhead transparencies. Softcover, 44 pages. Grades 6 and up.

Food & Nutrition Inquiry Activities JB-B4130......$24.50

Colorful transparencies make teaching MyPyramid come alive! These transparencies are a great tool for teaching all aspects of the new MyPyramid Food Guidance System to students and clients of all ages. Ten full-color transparencies include the latest information on MyPyramid.gov, portion sizes, the nutrition facts food label, as well as safe food handling procedures. Use as colorful additions to your healthy eating presentations as well as for reviewing and testing knowledge of MyPyramid.gov. Includes ten full-color transparencies and an extensive teacher’s guide with lesson plan ideas. For all ages.

MyPyramid Teaching Transparencies MyPyramid Transparencies JB-A1120......$18.95