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Secondary-level health education and sex education standards vary from state to state and from district to district. Live Well Reproductive and Sexual Health, Second Edition, is an interactive web textbook (IWT) that is designed to be flexible and customizable to meet schools’ local curriculum needs. The IWT in HKPropel* is a powerful, unparalleled tool that students can access from a computer, tablet, or mobile device.
The second edition has been updated and expanded to meet new national and state health education standards. Using current terminology, the IWT includes self-contained lessons and accompanying ancillaries that cover a range of reproductive and sexual health topics, with varying levels of complexity. Schools can pick and choose which lessons they want to use for each grade level of their health ed or sex ed curricula. Students have access only to the lessons that teachers grant them access to based on the school or district’s local decisions regarding class content.
Each lesson in the IWT includes the following:
- Note-taking guide
- Skill-building challenge worksheet
- Vocabulary review worksheet (with variation for English language learners)
- Video of students talking about health skills and answering interview questions about the lesson topic
Whether it’s used as part of a health education class in combination with the Live Well middle health text or as part of a separate sex education class, Live Well: Reproductive and Sexual Health is a versatile resource that schools can draw upon in full or in part to customize instruction to their local needs and requirements. Human Kinetics K-12 educational consultants will work with school systems to tailor a combination of student and teacher instructional resources that’s best for them.
*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.
Live Well: Reproductive and Sexual Health is a versatile resource that schools can draw upon in full or in part to customize instruction to their local needs and requirements. Tailor the program to the needs of your students and your school and select various options from the following list to best suit your curriculum:
- Adolescence and Puberty
- Relationships and Communication Skills
- Dating Relationships
- Abstinence
- Abstinence and Contraception
- Conception and Pregnancy
- Teens and Identity Exploration
- Female Reproductive System
- Male Reproductive System
- Reproductive System in People With Ovaries
- Reproductive System in People With Testicles
- Sexual Activity and Affirmative Consent
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Including HIV and AIDS
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 Professor 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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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 SHAPE Washington) for contributions made to state standards in health and fitness. She enjoys running and participating in most outdoor activities.
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 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 student lesson 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:
- Two full sets of analytic and holistic rubrics to use with all skill development activities
- A lesson plan for each lesson
- A PowerPoint presentation for each lesson
- Student worksheets and note-taking guides for each lesson
- Student quizzes for each lesson
- Warm-up activities to help get students focused, including journal questions and vocabulary review worksheets
- Teen interview videos at the beginning of each lesson that promote class discussion and student self-reflection
*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 interactive web text as well as worksheets, tests, quizzes, and PowerPoint presentations used for classroom lectures.
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