Live Well Comprehensive High School Health, Second Edition, helps high school students understand the importance of developing healthy habits, eating well, being physically active, and managing stress throughout their life span. The second edition has been updated to meet the newest national and state health standards and the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool.

Skills Developed

Through the text, students will develop healthy living skills as they gain an understanding of how to do the following and more:

• Analyze the influence of family, peers, media, and technology on their health and wellness
• Identify valid and reliable resources and become savvy consumers
• Develop interpersonal communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills as they share health knowledge, manage conflicts, and more
• Use decision-making and goal-setting processes as they pursue health options and outcomes
• Avoid risky behaviors
• Build healthy relationships

• Contribute to community and environmental health

Features and Benefits

Live Well Comprehensive High School Health, Second Edition, provides skill-focused learning applications to reinforce functional health information and help students develop health literacy. Recurring special elements such as Skill-Building Challenges, Healthy Living Tips, and Career Connections supply opportunities to analyze, evaluate, and apply the health concepts and skills being taught. Case studies and other features allow students to engage with issues of diversity and inclusion across content areas. And vocabulary terms—available in English and Spanish to accommodate ELL and ESL students—help students test their understanding of the material.

To assist students using the print book or ebook, the web resource for Live Well Comprehensive High School Health, Second Edition, features easy access to material referenced in the text, including vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, practice quizzes, and chapter reviews. Video segments in each chapter help jump-start class discussion and give examples of how teens across the country interpret health topics and skills.

With its flexibility, its high-quality content, and its alignment with national and state standards, Live Well Comprehensive High School Health, Second Edition, is a great resource to help high school students learn and practice the skills that will lead to a life of health and wellness.

Unit I. Foundations of Living Well
Chapter 1. Understanding My Health
Lesson 1.1 Exploring Health and Wellness
Lesson 1.2 Developing Skills for Healthy Living
Lesson 1.3 My Immune System
Lesson 1.4 Communicable Diseases
Lesson 1.5 Noncommunicable Diseases

Chapter 2. Personal and Consumer Health
Lesson 2.1 Personal Health Habits
Lesson 2.2 Healthy Vision and Hearing
Lesson 2.3 Healthy Sleep and Rest
Lesson 2.4 Being a Healthy Consumer

Chapter 3. Health Equity and Public Health
Lesson 3.1 Understanding Health Equity
Lesson 3.2 Disability and Inclusion
Lesson 3.3 Public Health

Unit II. Eating Well and Being Physically Active
Chapter 4. Food and Your Health
Lesson 4.1 Understanding Foods and Nutrients
Lesson 4.2 Energy Balance, Hunger, and Appetite
Lesson 4.3 Tips and Tools for Eating Well
Lesson 4.4 The Digestive and Urinary Systems
Lesson 4.5 Making Healthy Nutrition Decisions

Chapter 5. Managing Good Nutrition
Lesson 5.1 Eating Well Across the Lifespan
Lesson 5.2 Food Access and Safety
Lesson 5.3 Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Lesson 5.4 Your Body Image
Lesson 5.5 Your Nutrition Plan

Chapter 6. Staying Active and Healthy
Lesson 6.1 Being Physically Active and Physically Fit
Lesson 6.2 Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness Components
Lesson 6.3 Preparing for Physical Activity
Lesson 6.4 Fitness Planning

Unit III. Your Emotional, Mental, and Social Well-Being
Chapter 7. Emotional Wellness
Lesson 7.1 Your Emotional Health
Lesson 7.2 Building Self-Awareness
Lesson 7.3 Developing Emotional Health and Mental Toughness
Lesson 7.4 Recognizing and Managing Stress
Lesson 7.5 Understanding Grief and Loss

Chapter 8. Mental Health
Lesson 8.1 Understanding Mental Illness
Lesson 8.2 Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders
Lesson 8.3 Depression and Mood Disorders
Lesson 8.4 Self-Harm and Suicide

Chapter 9. Relationships and Social Health
Lesson 9.1 Relationships and Communication Skills
Lesson 9.2 Family Relationships
Lesson 9.3 Friendships
Lesson 9.4 Dating Relationships

Unit IV. Destructive and Damaging Behaviors
Chapter 10. Violence and Conflict
Lesson 10.1 Understanding Violent Behavior
Lesson 10.2 Anger, Aggression, and Conflict
Lesson 10.3 Bullying and Hazing
Lesson 10.4 Violence, Weapons, and Gangs
Lesson 10.5 Relationships and Violence

Chapter 11. Alcohol
Lesson 11.1 Alcohol Use, Effects, and Consequences
Lesson 11.2 Influences and Alcohol
Lesson 11.3 Treating Alcohol Use Disorders

Chapter 12. Tobacco and E-Cigarettes
Lesson 12.1 Tobacco Products and Vaping
Lesson 12.2 Regulations and Influences on Tobacco Product Use
Lesson 12.3 Avoiding and Quitting Tobacco Product Use

Chapter 13. Legal and Illicit Drugs
Lesson 13.1 Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs
Lesson 13.2 Illicit Drugs
Lesson 13.3 Influences on the Use of Drugs
Lesson 13.4 Prevention, Treatment, and Being Drug-Free

Unit V. Protecting Yourself and the Environment
Chapter 14. Injury Prevention, Safety, and First Aid
Lesson 14.1 Injury Prevention and Safety at Home
Lesson 14.2 Safety in the Community
Lesson 14.3 Safety Online
Lesson 14.4 First Aid and Emergency Procedures

Chapter 15. Environmental Health
Lesson 15.1 Air, Water, and Noise Pollution
Lesson 15.2 Chemicals, the Environment, and Your Health
Lesson 15.3 Conservation and Living Green

Karen E. McConnell, PhD, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, is a certified health education specialist. She has taught at the university level for more than 25 years in areas related to health and fitness education, curriculum and assessment, and exercise science. She has written or contributed to over a dozen book chapters and texts, including Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education, as well as the teacher resources for the fifth and sixth editions of Fitness for Life. She is a past recipient of the Dr. G. Arthur Broten Young Scholars Award and has received the University Professional of the Year Award from the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (now known as SHAPE Washington) for contributions made to state standards in health and fitness. She enjoys running and participating in most outdoor activities.

Terri D. Farrar, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the kinesiology teacher education program at Pacific Lutheran University. She has taught health and fitness education at the middle school and high school levels for over 26 years and has taught health and fitness pedagogy at Pacific Lutheran University for over 15 years. She coauthored the Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education textbooks and teacher resources. She is a member of SHAPE America and of the Washington chapter of SHAPE America. She was SHAPE Washington’s University Professional of the Year in 2019 and is the executive director for SHAPE Washington. She enjoys traveling, working out, and staying active.

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The extensive teacher pack of resources is even more robust in its second edition and is available to teachers and school systems that adopt the student text. Lessons within each chapter can be assigned via HKPropel* and student progress can be tracked to see at a glance whether the chapter is not started, in progress, or completed. The updated resources for use by teachers are customizable to best suit your context and your students.

Each chapter contains multiple lessons per chapter (61 lessons total) and comes with a complete set of resources that are modifiable to allow you to make adjustments that best suit your context and your students. These resources include the following:

• An 18-week scope and sequence guide
• Guidance for pacing lessons and managing assessments
• Advice on navigating sensitive health topics in class
• PowerPoint presentations for every lesson
• Student worksheets and note-taking guides for every lesson
• Student quizzes for every lesson
• Warm-up activities to help get students focused, including journal questions and vocabulary review worksheets
• Chapter and unit tests for all 15 student textbook chapters
• An online test bank that allows you to create your own chapter tests, unit tests, or course exams
• Teen interview videos at the beginning of each chapter that promote class discussion and student self-reflection

Each semester, two new supplemental lessons are added to the teacher pack to cover current, relevant topics. Examples of additions include a lesson titled Fentanyl and the lesson Understanding Your Digital Footprint.

*HKPropel is a digital content delivery and learning platform. It can be integrated with any learning management system that supports Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 and provides LTI Advantage services such as Assignment and Grade Services and Deep Linking.

Choose the format that works best for your students.

The interactive web text (IWT) combines the textbook with the features available in the student web resource in one convenient place. Embedding the digital elements within the text provides exceptional engagement designed to enhance the learning experience of students.

The digital elements include pop-up definitions, audio pronunciations for vocabulary terms, and other interactive lesson-specific components to engage students in the chapter content. Additionally, videos are integrated within the interactive web text and can be used as prompts for student discussions and reflection.

The interactive web text in HKPropel* is a powerful, unparalleled tool that students can access from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. Chapters can be assigned via HKPropel, and student progress can be tracked to see at a glance whether the chapter is not started, in progress, or completed.

*HKPropel is a digital content delivery and learning platform. It can be integrated with any learning management system that supports Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 and provides LTI Advantage services such as Assignment and Grade Services and Deep Linking.

All student-facing resources are available in Spanish. This includes a complete, unabridged Spanish version of the ebook or interactive web text as well as worksheets, tests, quizzes, and PowerPoint presentations used for classroom lectures.

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