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Grades 7 - 8

Standard 2.1 (Wellness)
Grade Level
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7-8
 BAM! Body and Mind provides interactive, educational activities for teachers and students.
7-8
 KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Students can visit the Kids section for information and activities.
7-8
 In this lesson, students explore why Americans failed to meet health goals for the year 2000 and ways in which Americans can shape up to meet the 2010 goals.
7-8
 Activities related to health and fitness are provided. Scroll down to view the Leader's Guide section which contains posters, activities, a family letter, and more.
7-8
 Find out what schools across the nation are doing to promote good nutrition. Various innovative activities are presented. Check out School-Wide Team Nutrition Fair: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health, Tasting Your Way to Good Health!, and other activities that can involve the entire school.

Standard 2.2 (Integrated Skills)
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7-8
 K-12 lessons developed by Educators for Social Responsibility.
7-8
 iEARN enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
7-8
 KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Students can visit the Kids section for information and activities.
7-8
 C.S. Lewis' (1950) classic novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, serves as the focus for this unit on responsibility.
7-8
 Many of these activities from the University of Illinois Extension are integrated with other content areas.

Standard 2.3 (Drugs and Medicines)
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7-8
 Students learn that marijuana causes a decrease in reaction time.
7-8
 In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students investigate the ways that various addictive drugs interact with the human nervous system.
7-8
 Information and suggestions for how to talk children about drugs from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Standard 2.4 (Human Relationships and Sexuality)
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7-8


  • In this lesson, students explore some of the ways in which artistic expression has been used to promote awareness of AIDS. They then create their own designs to promote awareness of a social, political, or economic issue of importance to their age group and community.
  • In this lesson plan, students learn about federally funded abstinence-only sex education. Then, in groups, students create age-appropriate, informational brochures examining health topics relating to sex.
  • In this lesson, students learn about the American anti-abortion movement's "incremental" approach to legislation; they then evaluate key decisions, regulations, and legislation from the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, to the present, from both sides of the abortion debate.
7-8
With a Little Help from My Friends?
 Students learn that having friends is an important part of growing up, but being in charge of the friendship rather than allowing it to control them is also important.

Standard 2.5 (Motor Skill Development)
Grade Level
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Description
7-8
 Looking for kids' games? How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more? Then this is the site for you.
7-8

PE Central's Best Practices Program

PE Central's Best Practices Program is an innovative way to share high quality practices, while simultaneously providing recognition to the dedicated physical educators who have developed them.
7-8

PE Lessons

 This page is dedicated to providing a space for Physical Educators to share lesson ideas.

Standard 2.6 (Fitness)
Grade Level
Web Site
Description
7-8
 BAM! Body and Mind provides interactive, educational activities for teachers and students.
7-8
 Students integrate math and social studies concepts with this fitness activity.
7-8
PE Central's Best Practices Program is an innovative way to share high quality practices, while simultaneously providing recognition to the dedicated physical educators who have developed them.
7-8
 This page is dedicated to providing a space for Physical Educators to share lesson ideas.
7-8
 VERB, the campaign created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is designed to help kids, ages 9-13, get active and have fun!

Standards 2.1 - 2.6
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Description
7-8
 Health and physical education lessons. Subscriber fee involved.