Through Live Well Comprehensive Middle School Health, Second Edition, students will discover fundamentals of health and wellness and learn how to apply these throughout their life span. The content is aligned with the newest national and state health standards and the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool.

Skills Developed

The text has been updated throughout with current terminology and will help middle school students understand how to do the following and more:

• Develop skills for healthy living
• Avoid risky behaviors
• Build healthy relationships
• Contribute to community and environmental health
• 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

In addition, students will learn to establish healthy nutrition and physical activity plans, advocate to promote the health and well-being of themselves and others, and discern how health and technology intersect on various topics.

Features and Benefits

Live Well Comprehensive Middle School Health, Second Edition, provides skill-focused learning applications to reinforce the 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 Middle 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 animations for each chapter also provide a short chapter overview and can help prompt class discussion.

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

Chapter 2. Personal and Consumer Health
Lesson 2.1 Healthy Skin, Hair, and Nails
Lesson 2.2 Good Oral Health
Lesson 2.3 Healthy Vision and Hearing
Lesson 2.4 Healthy Sleep and Rest
Lesson 2.5 Being a Healthy Consumer

Unit II. Eating Well and Being Physically Active
Chapter 3. Food and Your Health
Lesson 3.1 Understanding Foods and Nutrients
Lesson 3.2 Energy Balance, Hunger, and Appetite
Lesson 3.3 Tips and Tools for Eating Well
Lesson 3.4 The Digestive and Urinary Systems
Lesson 3.5 Making Healthy Nutrition Decisions

Chapter 4. Managing Good Nutrition
Lesson 4.1 Eating Well as You Grow
Lesson 4.2 Food Access and Safety
Lesson 4.3 Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Lesson 4.4 Your Body Image
Lesson 4.5 Your Nutrition Plan

Chapter 5. Staying Active and Healthy
Lesson 5.1 Physical Activity
Lesson 5.2 Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness Components
Lesson 5.3 Preparing for Physical Activity
Lesson 5.4 Fitness Planning

Unit III. Your Emotional, Mental, and Social Well-Being
Chapter 6. Emotional Wellness
Lesson 6.1 Your Emotional Health
Lesson 6.2 Being Yourself
Lesson 6.3 Building Resilience and Grit
Lesson 6.4 Controlling Your Emotions

Chapter 7. Stress, Anxiety, and Mental Illness
Lesson 7.1 Understanding and Managing Stress
Lesson 7.2 Mental Illness and Anxiety
Lesson 7.3 Depression, Suicide, and Self-Harm

Chapter 8. Relationships and Social Health
Lesson 8.1 Relationships and Communication Skills
Lesson 8.2 Family Relationships
Lesson 8.3 Friendships
Lesson 8.4 Dating Relationships

Unit IV. Destructive and Damaging Behaviors
Chapter 9. Violence and Conflict
Lesson 9.1 Understanding Violent Behavior
Lesson 9.2 Anger, Aggression, and Conflict
Lesson 9.3 Youth Violence, Bullying, and Gangs
Lesson 9.4 Relationships and Violence

Chapter 10. Alcohol
Lesson 10.1 Alcohol Use
Lesson 10.2 The Effects of Alcohol
Lesson 10.3 Influences and Alcohol
Lesson 10.4 Saying No to Alcohol
Lesson 10.5 Treating Alcohol Use Disorders

Chapter 11. Tobacco and E-Cigarettes
Lesson 11.1 Tobacco Products and E-Cigarettes
Lesson 11.2 Influences on Using Tobacco Products
Lesson 11.3 Avoiding and Quitting Tobacco Product Use
Lesson 11.4 Government Regulation of Tobacco Products

Chapter 12. Legal and Illicit Drugs
Lesson 12.1 Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs
Lesson 12.2 Illicit Drugs
Lesson 12.3 Influences on the Use of Medications and Drugs
Lesson 12.4 Prevention, Treatment, and Being Drug-Free

Unit V. Keeping Yourself and Others Safe
Chapter 13. Injury Prevention, Safety, and First Aid
Lesson 13.1 Injury Prevention and Safety at Home
Lesson 13.2 Safety in the Community
Lesson 13.3 Safety Online
Lesson 13.4 First Aid and Emergency Procedures

Chapter 14. Public and Environmental Health
Lesson 14.1 Exploring Public Health
Lesson 14.2 Air, Water, and Noise Pollution
Lesson 14.3 Chemicals, the Environment, and Your Health
Lesson 14.4 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 (60 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
• Two full sets of analytic and holistic rubrics to use with all skill development activities
• Student worksheets and note-taking guides for every lesson
• Student quizzes for every lesson
• Warm-up activities to help get students focused, including self-assessments, journal questions, and vocabulary reviews
• Chapter tests for all 14 student textbook chapters
• An online test bank that allows you to create your own chapter tests, unit tests, or course exams
• Video animations at the beginning of each chapter that provide brief chapter overviews

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 directly in the chapter context. Additionally, animations 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.

*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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