HealthSmart Middle School: Abstinence, Puberty & Personal Health (Teacher Guide with CD and Set of 30 Student Workbooks)

HealthSmart Middle School: Abstinence, Puberty & Personal 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: Abstinence, Puberty and Personal Health lessons and activities are tailored to the developmental capabilities of middle school students. This unit offers seventeen 45- to 60-minute lessons covering the following topics: Staying Healthy for a Lifetime; Keeping My Body Healthy; Protecting My Body from Disease; Talking About Sexuality; Puberty; The Female Reproductive System; The Male Reproductive System; The Menstrual Cycle & Pregnancy; Taking Care of Sexual Health; Feelings & Relationships; Benefits of Abstinence; Influences on Abstinence; Peer Power for Abstinence; Planning Ahead to Be Abstinent; Resisting Sexual Pressure; Roleplay Practice:Saying NO to Sexual Pressure; Achieving Goals Through Abstinence. This program includes a Teacher Guide (214 pages); a classroom set of 30 Student Workbooks (32 pages each); and a CD with teacher keys and masters, PowerPoint slides, Student Journal pages and scoring rubrics. When you purchase HealthSmart you also have access to the HealthSmart Teacher Support Website that features a wealth of free digital resources, including a Lesson Planning Tool that gives you the power to quickly customize a HealthSmart lesson plan.