Environmental Health + Community Health Unit: Middle School Health Unit
Foster a care and concern for our environment, and inspire your middle school teens with a community awareness! Help students make your school, community, and world a great place to live and work! These 2+ week units are project-based and engaging!
For more than a decade, our expert-designed, research-based curriculum has been a trusted resource in Health and PE education. Continuously refined and proven in classrooms, it remains the benchmark resource for schools seeking to enhance their programs and support student well-being.
This digital download product, is editable in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for print and online on Google Drive.
Here is what is included for both units:
- 47 Pages of Step-By-Step Teacher Directions
- 28+ Links to Amazing Videos on 10 topics! SAVES YOU HOURS OF RESEARCH!
- 76 PowerPoint Slides with awesome graphics!
- ★ NEW! Skills-Based Student Advocacy Project! See “Preview” for an example!
- 9 Worksheets or Handouts: ALL STUDENT DOCS for these two units are EDITABLE for print AND uploaded onto Google Slides.
- Meets State Heath Standards, National Health Standards, Common Core Standards
- Includes Learning Target Posters and 3 Success Criteria Worksheet Choices and Learning Target Posters to post in your classroom!
- Assign Health worksheets in your Google Classroom or paperless environment using these high school student worksheets, surveys, and tests created on Google Slides with fill-in text boxes!
- ★ Also compatible with Microsoft platforms! Simply download my "Student Docs Google Slideshow" (which includes fill-in text boxes) to your computer (Yes- text boxes remain intact!) and upload and assign on your online Microsoft platform!
- ★ Includes a step-by-step instructional video I created to show you not only how to navigate my files and folders; but also how to use the Google Slideshows, how Microsoft users can use my Google Slideshows, how to send only one day's lessons to your students, how to add new information/pages to a Google Slideshow, how to edit and upload worksheets, how to voice-over slides, how to add an instructional video on top of slides, uploading to Google Drive tips, how to set up files for an organize Google Drive, and more! (Click here for an example!)
>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of both worlds.
>> Meets all MS National Health Education Standards.
>> Meets all MS Technical Subjects Health Common Core Standards.
>> Meets all Washington State’s rigorous Health Education Standards.
>>Fact and Evidence based. The program meets all 15 “Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum” set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Environmental Unit Lesson Activities Include:
Here is another video showing features of my Health units!
DAY 1:
-Students watch an amazing video to help them understand the 10 top environmental issues
-Next they use the "10 Environmental Issues Worksheet” with a partner to record reactions and solutions regarding their issue. NEW VIDEOS Includes!
-Students then group up to do an interesting "10 Issues Group Activity"
-They finish the day with short videos on each topic (all links included!)
DAY 2:
-Finish up watching the videos
-Re-rate your initial reactions!
-How one person can make a difference!
-“What Can I Do Follow-Up Project”
DAY 3 to Day 10: The rest of the unit has several options depending on the amount of time you have. Here are the options. (Website links are included!)
-“Bottled Water" video
-‘What Can I do?’ Posters” around the room activity
-Environmental Protection Agency 8 Topics and “All Hands Working Together Project” (project template included!)
-True stories of environmental harm
-Brochures (template included)
-"Environmental Workplace Risk Research"
-Write a “Workplace Hazard” report
-Make a “Public Service Announcement” poster or video
-Doing a real project that helps an environmental issue and documenting it!
"Human Footprint" video
-Use my state assessment on an environmental issue
Community Health Activities Include: This unit includes 21 different ideas to promote “Community Health." All websites are included!
- “Community Health” discussion and video
- Students learn 6 Key Ingredients to a healthy community
- They then choose between:
- "The Ideal City Project" where student actually create models of an ideal city using cardboard boxes and props
- "Community Health Project" - Students could choose a hazardous issue from diabetes to heart disease to cancer, to home hazards, to public safety issues, and come up with solutions to reduce that risk.
If you still have more time, there's more:
-”Health and Fitness Careers Research” (worksheet included)
-“Occupational and Career Choices” and their relationship to “Health and Fitness”
-”Public Service Announcements” (examples included)
-”10 Best Cities for Affordable Healthcare”
-”Cultural Diversity in Public College and Universities”
-“Allergy Friendly Homes”
-”Health Career Research and Posters”
-”Long-Term Health Goals” (SMART GOAL SHEET included)
-”Disease Prevention”
-”Cancer Warning Signs” (handout included)
-“Family Health Project”
-“Family Medical History” (homework included)
-”Longevity Game”
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