Authors: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Lindsay Armbruster, and Mary McCarley

Essential Health Skills for Middle School is the most up-to-date, skills-based text that help students make good choices regarding their health and well-being. Students learn strategies to be mentally and emotionally healthy, build healthy relationships, avoid hazardous substances, and promote physical health and safety. Content and skills align with the National Health Education Standards for grades 6, 7, and 8.

Table of Contents

Abbreviated Contents

Essential Health Skills for Middle School, 1st Edition

• Front Matter
• Student Walkthrough
• Unit 1 Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellness
• • 1 - Understanding Your Health and Wellness
  • 2 - Developing Good Personal Hygiene
  • 3 - Getting the Sleep You Need
• Unit 2 Promoting Mental and Emotional Well-Being
• • 4 - Being Mentally and Emotionally Healthy
  • 5 - Getting Help for Mental Health Conditions
• Unit 3 Nutrition and Physical Fitness
• • 6 - Nutrition
  • 7 - Physical Fitness
• Unit 4 Understanding and Avoiding Hazardous Substances
• • 8 - Tobacco
  • 9 - Alcohol
  • 10 - Medications and Drugs
• Unit 5 Protecting Your Physical Health and Safety
• • 11 - Understanding and Preventing Diseases
  • 12 - Preventing and Responding to Accidents and Injuries
  • 13 - Protecting Environmental Health
• Unit 6 Social Health and Wellness
• • 14 - Promoting Healthy Relationships
  • 15 - Understanding Violent Behavior
• Unit 7 The Body and How It Develops
• • 16 - Human Development
  • 17 - The Body Systems
• Appendix Body Mass Index-for-Age Percentiles
• Glossary/Glosario
• Index