Book Description

Through Live Well: Middle School Health, students will discover fundamentals of health and wellness and learn how to apply these throughout their life span. The text will help students understand how to do the following: Develop skills for healthy living Prioritize healthy nutrition, physical activity, and stress management Avoid destructive habits Build healthy relationships Contribute to community and environmental health Skills Developed The content in Live Well: Middle School Health is aligned with the National Health Education Standards (NHES), state standards, and the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool. The text will help students build an array of skills: Analyze the effect that family, peers, media, and technology have on their health and wellness Identify reliable sources of health information and become savvy consumers Sharpen interpersonal communication skills as they share health knowledge, debate controversial topics, manage interpersonal conflicts, and more Strengthen decision-making skills as they identify healthy solutions to problems posed In addition, students will learn to create behavior change goals, establish healthy living plans, advocate for healthy living at home and in their communities, and discern how health and technology intersect on various topics. Features and Benefits Live Well: Middle School Health offers students many features and benefits. The text provides skill-based learning applications to reinforce the health concepts and help students develop health literacy. 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 engage with issues of diversity and inclusion across content areas. And vocabulary terms—available in English and Spanish to meet the needs of ELL and ESL students—help students test their understanding of the material. Teacher’s Guide With Online Bundle Live Well: Middle School Health is available in both print and digital formats. Instructor ancillaries include a teacher’s guide that includes lesson plans, worksheets, lesson planning guides, chapter summaries, quizzes and tests, applied assessments, ideas for differentiated instruction, and a scope and sequence for grades 6 through 8. The teacher’s guide is also available as a printed loose-leaf pack for teachers who need an alternative to the online version. Interactive Web Text A powerful tool offered by Live Well: Middle School Health is its interactive web text, which students can use across a variety of platforms. The interactive web text includes a compilation of stand-alone chapters that can be purchased as a whole or individually, giving schools the flexibility to customize student content to meet their specific needs. Advantages of the Resources Live Well: Middle School Health offers up-to-date, comprehensive, standards-based health instruction for middle schoolers. The attractive visuals and presentation of the content make this resource relatable to today’s students, and the instructor ancillaries and the interactive web text allow teachers to choose exactly the materials they need and the way they want to use them.