Live Well: Foundations of High School Health helps students understand the importance of developing healthy habits, eating well, and being physically active. They’ll also learn how to maintain emotional, mental, and social health; how to avoid risky behaviors; and how to protect themselves and prevent injuries.

Through the text, students will develop skills like these:

• Identifying reliable sources of health information and becoming savvy consumers
• Strengthening decision-making skills as they identify healthy solutions in challenging situations
• Sharpening communication skills as they share health knowledge, engage in advocacy, and manage interpersonal conflicts
• Practicing and using self-management skills such as goal setting and self-monitoring
• Analyzing the influences of family, peers, media, and technology on their health and wellness

Students will also learn to establish healthy living plans, advocate for healthy living at home and in their communities, and discern how health and technology intersect.

Features
The text offers students a variety of features and tools:

• Skill-building activities to develop health literacy
• Case studies, healthy living tips, career connections, writing prompts, cross-curricular connections, and more tools to learn and apply health concepts and skills
• Vocabulary terms and definitions, available in both English and Spanish, with audio pronunciations
• Worksheets and quizzes; modified versions of the worksheets meet the needs of ELL and ESL students

Student Web Resources
The print book and ebook also come with a web resource that offers easy access to materials referenced in the text, including note-taking guides, vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, Skill-Building Challenge worksheets, and chapter reviews. Schools that adopt the student text can also get a teacher’s guide in an online format or as a PDF.

Live Well: Foundations of High School Health is a great resource to help high school students learn and practice the skills that will lead to a life of health and wellness.

Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.

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 and Treating Mental Disorders
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

Appendix
Glossary/Glosario

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All you need to easily implement Live Well: Foundations of High School Health!

This Live Well: Foundations of High School Health Teacher Pack provides you with all of the tools to readily implement a skills-based approach to health and wellness, including 61 comprehensive daily lesson plans.

Along with a digital version of the student text, the Teacher Pack features a teacher’s guide with detailed lesson plans, strategies for assessment, ideas for differentiated instruction, and best practices for delivering the content. Extensive resources for use by teachers are customizable to best suit your context and your students. 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.

The Teacher Pack interfaces easily with the student textbook. The lesson plans are supported by the following resources:

• Slide decks for every lesson
• Student worksheets for every lesson, including Note-Taking Guides, ELL Worksheets, and Vocabulary Reviews
• Skill Cue Posters for each chapter
• Introductory chapter videos of Teen interviews that promote class discussion
• Student quizzes for every lesson
• Chapter tests for all 15 student textbook chapters
• Unit tests for all five units
• An online test bank that allows you to create your own chapter tests, unit tests, or course exams

*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, videos are readily accessible and 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. To learn more, watch the student text video above (interactive web text discussed at the 2:04 minute mark).

*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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