Bad Habits: High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons

Teaching Healthy Habits: A Comprehensive Resource for Your Students:

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Do you want to help your students build healthy habits? Our brains thrive on habits and patterns—this can be both a blessing and a challenge. This resource helps students identify bad habits to break, adopt positive habits, and stay accountable with a structured worksheet and a goal-tracking calendar.

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Why This Lesson is Essential for Teens:

• Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you went there?
• After your brain signals you to do something, it relies on routine and automatic behavior, allowing your mind to focus on other things.
• This is the power of habits—they help us complete daily tasks effortlessly.
• However, bad habits can be hard to break once they’re ingrained.
• Understanding how habits form and how to change them is a critical life skill for teens!

What’s Included in This Resource:

• Three days of engaging lessons
• 29 pages of editable teacher directions aligned with the PowerPoint
• 50-slide editable PowerPoint guiding each lesson
• Worksheets available for digital completion on Google Slides
• PowerPoint also uploaded on Google Slides
• 11 printable and editable documents (Word & PDF)

Worksheets & Activities:

1. Habits Survey – Students identify personal habits
2. Cleansing a Bad Habit Worksheet – Step-by-step process to break a habit
3. Example Worksheet – Helps students understand how to complete their own
4. Goal-Setting Calendar – Track progress in breaking a bad habit
5. Adding a Healthy Habit Worksheet – Plan and commit to a new habit
6. Example Worksheet – Demonstrates successful habit formation
7. Goal-Setting Calendar for Adding a Healthy Habit
8. Support Your Peers Classroom Calendar – A fun, interactive way for students to track and encourage each other’s progress
9. Drugs and Neurotransmitters Handout – Understanding addiction and brain chemistry
10. Do I or Does My Friend Have a Drug Problem? Survey
11. Dying for a Drug Fix – True Story – A real-life account of addiction
12. Stages of Addiction Student Story – Writing activity to explore addiction progression

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Daily Lesson Breakdown:

Day 1: Understanding Habit Formation:

1. Students learn how the brain creates habit pathways.
2. Students complete a 100-habit self-assessment survey.
3. Engaging video explanation of habits to prepare for the worksheets.
4. Students set personal goals using structured worksheets & examples.
5. Optional "Support Your Peers" Habits Calendar for class accountability.

Days 2-3: The Science of Habits & Addiction:

1. Students explore dopamine’s role in habit formation—how the brain seeks pleasure and avoids pain.
2. Watch a video clip on methamphetamine and its effects on the brain.
3. Complete the Neurotransmitter Handout to understand chemical influences on behavior.
4. Take an anonymous Drug Addiction Survey to assess personal or peer risk factors.
5. Read “Dying for a Drug Fix” – A True Story aloud in class.
6. Teen Progression Drug Story Activity – Students create their own stories about a teen experiencing the stages of addiction.
7. Story Sharing Activity – Students present their stories to classmates for discussion and reflection.

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