HealthSmart Middle School: Emotional & Mental Health

HealthSmart Middle School: Emotional & Mental Health is part of ETR's comprehensive K-12 health education program that focuses on the essential concepts and skills students need to know and practice to adopt healthy behaviors. HealthSmart meets the National Health Education Standards and aligns to the CDC's Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). HealthSmart focuses on the key areas of risk that confront children and youth today as identified by the CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). The program also draws on the cultural strengths of students and their families to support healthy behaviors and establish healthy social norms and expectations. HealthSmart Middle School: Emotional & Mental Health lessons and activities are tailored to the developmental capabilities of middle school students. This unit offers fourteen 45- to 60-minute lessons covering the following topics: Dimensions of Health; Classroom Rules & Responsibilities; Being Emotionally Healthy; Qualities of Healthy Relationships; Building Healthy Relationships Through Communication; Expressing Your Feelings; Dealing with Troublesome Feelings; Getting Help for Yourself or a Friend; Dealing with Grief; What Is Stress?; Reducing Stress; Managing Stress; Making Healthy Decisions; Setting Goals for Emotional Health. The program includes a Teacher Guide (174 pages); a classroom set of 30 Student Workbooks (32 pages each); and a CD that contains teacher keys and masters, PowerPoint slides, Student Journal pages and scoring rubrics. When you purchase HealthSmart you also have access to the online Teacher Support website that features a wealth of free digital resources and a Lesson Planning Tool to customize lesson plans.