Live Well Middle School Health Florida helps students discover the fundamentals of health and wellness and learn how to apply these throughout their lifespan. The text—specifically designed to meet Florida’s health course standards for grades 6, 7, and 8—provides skill-based learning applications to reinforce health concepts and help students develop health literacy. Students build an array of skills:

• Prioritizing nutrition, physical activity, and personal health
• Avoiding risky behaviors and injuries
• Analyzing the effect that family, peers, media, and technology have on their health and wellness
• Identifying valid and reliable sources of health information and becoming savvy consumers
• Sharpening interpersonal communication skills as they develop empathy, manage conflicts, and advocate for themselves and others
• Strengthening decision-making and goal-setting skills, both individually and collaboratively
• Developing character and resilience in an ever-changing world
• Contributing to community and environmental health

Skill-Building Challenges, Healthy Living Tips, Career Connections, and other recurring special elements supply opportunities to analyze, evaluate, and apply the health concepts and skills being taught. Case studies and other features allow students to consider real-world issues from various perspectives. Also assisting students is a web resource that features easy access to material referenced in the text, including note-taking guides, worksheets, chapter reviews, and vocabulary terms with audio pronunciations and definitions—available in English and Spanish to meet the needs of ELL and ESL students.

With its emphasis on developing health literacy and skills for wellness, Live Well Middle School Health Florida gives students the tools they need to live healthy lives.

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 Disorders
Lesson 7.1 Understanding and Managing Stress
Lesson 7.2 Mental Disorders and Anxiety
Lesson 7.3 Depression, Suicide, and Self-Harm

Chapter 8. Relationships and Social Health
Lesson 8.1 Healthy Relationships
Lesson 8.2 Family Relationships
Lesson 8.3 Friendships

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

Chapter 15. Reproductive Health and Disease Prevention
Lesson 15.1 Adolescence and Puberty
Lesson 15.2 Dating Relationships
Lesson 15.3 Abstinence
Lesson 15.4 Female Reproductive System
Lesson 15.5 Male Reproductive System
Lesson 15.6 Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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An extensive Teacher Pack of resources is available to teachers and school systems that adopt the student text. 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. Resources include:

Each chapter contains two lessons per chapter (44 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:

• PowerPoint presentations for every classroom lesson
• Student worksheets for every classroom lesson
• Student quizzes for every classroom lesson
• Self-assessments and activity lessons
• Chapter tests for all 22 student textbook chapters
• Unit tests for all 7 units
• An online test bank that allows you to create your own chapter tests, unit tests, or course exams
• Teen interview videos that promote class discussion (available to teachers and students on the Web Resource)
• Video clips demonstrating all the self-assessment exercises (available to teachers and students on the Web Resource)
• Video clips demonstrating all the exercises in chapters 10, 11, 12, and 17 (available to teachers and students on the Web Resource)

In addition to the 44 classroom lesson plans that reinforce the content from the student textbook, the teacher’s guide provides an additional three activity lesson plans for each chapter of the student textbook. These activity lesson plans reinforce the chapter content, include a student self-assessment activity, and provide an opportunity for students to develop their physical fitness. The activity lesson plans are supported by the following resources:

• Activity cards with instructions and pictures for student use
• Student worksheets for recording self-assessment scores and logging physical activity

Furthermore, all of the 110 detailed lesson plans in the TG provide you with a number of pedagogical features that will support your high-quality physical education program:

• Ideas for connecting with teachers and staff in your school to enrich students’ experiences
• Universal design for learning (UDL) considerations to help make your content and activities accessible to all students
• Ideas for integrating technology
• Ideas for assessing and evaluating students
• Take It Home activities that encourage students to use their knowledge and skills outside school
• Supplemental learning activities that you can use to reinforce course concepts, like Taking Charge, where students consider a case and provide guidance for an individual’s decision making.

*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.

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The interactive web text 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, chapter opening videos, and other interactive lesson-specific components to engage students directly in the chapter context.

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 1:23 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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Phone: 217-403-7789 or
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