Beacon Lesson Plan Library
Lesson Plans - Learner Level 3: Health
- Are you a Sexual Harasser? (Authored by Sandra Sicbaldi.)
- Are You Ready for Personal Independence? (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Choice Not Chance (Authored by Rosa Banks.)
- Eating More or Less? (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
- Exploring Personal Responsibility (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
- Figuring Solutions (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
- Good Grief! (Authored by Pam Lord.)
- Group Research and Reports on STDs (Authored by Jeanne Pitts.)
- Growing Old (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Media Violence - The Good, the Bad and the Future (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
- Mountain Tops (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Oops, I Did Not Say It Right (Authored by Brenda Lewis-Williams.)
- Port Hole (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Rate Your Plate (Authored by Kathy Crane.)
- Resolution or Revolution? (Authored by Anne Reeves.)
- Shuffle About (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Substance Use and Its Effect on Behavior (Authored by James Buchannon.)
- The Multimedia Heart (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Walk That Line (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Why the Grinch Stole Christmas (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- You Are What You Eat (Primary Grades) (Authored by Debra Harris.)
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gain insight into forms of sexual harassment, and learn techniques to avoid threatening situations, unwanted effects, dating violence, myths and school and state laws governing sexual harassment.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Through class discussion and self evaluation, students will discover what independence means to different individuals.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Fact or fiction: Do the foods we choose affect our health? The student researches diets in a country other than the USA, and compares it to the Food Guide Pyramid analyzing the affect it has on an individual’s health.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate by using the Internet to research the types of eating disorders and summarize their effects on the body by creating a PowerPoint presentation or poster presentation.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students examine themselves to evaluate their own levels of personal and social responsibility.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Sometimes students express their resistance to learning academic concepts. This lesson avails students opportunities to discuss their attitudes and feelings so they discover possible ways to constructively respond to them.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: GOOD GRIEF! What better way to explain, demonstrate, and explore strategies related to a difficult topics? Through student role playing within family groups, the use of communicating strategies for managing grief will be explored.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work together in groups to research and gather information on a specific Sexually Transmitted Disease. Working as a team, they write a report and present the information orally to the class.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a simulation activity whereby students experience problems the elderly face daily in their lives, such as loss of sight, hearing, taste, smell, mobility/dexterity and touch.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson asks students to define, identify, measure and assess the level and impact of violence in media. The media forms that they will evaluate include music, sitcoms, news and other programs that may be identified by the students.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is an outdoor activity. Students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect, and creativity. Students will be doing an excercise that requires them to help and trust each other in order to accomplish the task.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will understand how the behavior of family members and peers affects interpersonal communication. The story “Chicken Little” will demonstrate and differentiate between truth or gossip.
Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this outdoor activity, students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity. The students also display physical and mental strengths.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is a fun way to teach students to analyze what they eat for one day. The student analyzes the nutrients, calories, and food groups using the USDA CNPP website Interactive Healthy Eating Index.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn appropriate strategies to resolve conflicts and potentially dangerous and/or threatening situations by role playing situations
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students must work together and practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in order to complete this outdoor activity successfully.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a lesson to cause students to think about substance use and afford them an opportunity to use their resistence skills for avoiding potentially harmful situations.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Working in groups, students research the different aspects of the human heart. Groups work through steps to create a multimedia slide presentation. The presentation must follow preset criteria.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this outdoor activity.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone knows “How the Grinch stole Christmas,” but no one seems to know [why] the Grinch stole Christmas. This lesson is a look at what might have given the Grinch the feelings that he had to steal Christmas from Who-ville.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research and prepare 20 cards regarding nutritional needs, obesity, and health issues. Students determine their ideal weights and how many calories should be consumed daily to obtain the ideal weight and/or maintain it.