Bad Habits: High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons
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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.
This digital download product, is editable in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for print and online on Google Drive.
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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:
- Habits Survey – Students identify personal habits
- Cleansing a Bad Habit Worksheet – Step-by-step process to break a habit
- Example Worksheet – Helps students understand how to complete their own
- Goal-Setting Calendar – Track progress in breaking a bad habit
- Adding a Healthy Habit Worksheet – Plan and commit to a new habit
- Example Worksheet – Demonstrates successful habit formation
- Goal-Setting Calendar for Adding a Healthy Habit
- Support Your Peers Classroom Calendar – A fun, interactive way for students to track and encourage each other’s progress
- Drugs and Neurotransmitters Handout – Understanding addiction and brain chemistry
- Do I or Does My Friend Have a Drug Problem? Survey
- Dying for a Drug Fix – True Story – A real-life account of addiction
- Stages of Addiction Student Story – Writing activity to explore addiction progression
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Daily Lesson Breakdown:
Day 1: Understanding Habit Formation:
- Students learn how the brain creates habit pathways.
- Students complete a 100-habit self-assessment survey.
- Engaging video explanation of habits to prepare for the worksheets.
- Students set personal goals using structured worksheets & examples.
- Optional "Support Your Peers" Habits Calendar for class accountability.
Days 2-3: The Science of Habits & Addiction:
- Students explore dopamine’s role in habit formation—how the brain seeks pleasure and avoids pain.
- Watch a video clip on methamphetamine and its effects on the brain.
- Complete the Neurotransmitter Handout to understand chemical influences on behavior.
- Take an anonymous Drug Addiction Survey to assess personal or peer risk factors.
- Read “Dying for a Drug Fix” – A True Story aloud in class.
- Teen Progression Drug Story Activity – Students create their own stories about a teen experiencing the stages of addiction.
- Story Sharing Activity – Students present their stories to classmates for discussion and reflection.
