The current world today is wrought with issues that affect our students daily. This lesson is designed to introduce some of these issues.

As a group, students will choose one of six things that factor into a healthy lifestyle and create a slide show for the class.

Students will learn the skills needed to make decisions- in situations throughout the school day.Students will learn the following stepsidentify the problemgather informationidentify alternativespredict the immediate and long-term consequencesmake the best choiceactevaluate results.Students will practice these steps in within their classroom setting and then be prompted as they learn to incorporate them throughout their regular school day 

Students will learn of coping behaviors related to grief and loss. They will recognize the tasks associated with the grief and loss process. Students will also have an opportunity to identify common ways literary characters cope with loss.

Lesson introduces distress and eustress, explains the causes of stress, and offers ways to manage stress. 

This lesson will help students understand the role of advertising, specifically the role it plays in alcohol, tobacco and medicinal drug advertisements.

At the conclusion of this lesson, students will understand the continuum of mental health and recognize the warning signs of mental health problems.

In this lesson students will be creating a blog of meals that they have prepared and cooked at home. This will be done after the student have learned about the basic nutrients and how much they need in a day. This will be a month long project in which the students choose one meal a week to post about.All meals will need to be under a certain amount of calories and with the proper proportions of fat, protein and carbohydrates.This will create better retention of what we have learned in class because they will have created something from scratch and post about it in a fun and creative way. It will also give me an easy way to grade what hey have done at home as they will be submitting the link to me for grading.

This lesson shows how to use GPS and mapping skills to make exercise areas in your community. These can include walking, riding, and biking trails.

The students will write a video narrative with how they can be safe doing certain activities and every day things.

Students will learn to identify "natural high" activities and their benefits as healthy alternatives to substance use.

Students will use Nearbpod on an individual iPad to examine various mental illnesses, explain how they effect society, identify symptoms, treatment options, and analyze the importance of early intervention and treatment. (Discussion questions, video clips, and polls will be utilized).

The activities in this lesson will help students understand why tobacco is addictive and how and why people quit using tobacco.

Count as you are carrying out daily routines.While counting, stop often to ask what number comes next.  Ask what number comes after or before a given number.

Students will be assessed on their understanding of how to read and understand nutrient information on food labels.  25 different food labels will be placed around the room.  Students will work individually to answer the questions on their bingo cards by using the food labels.  For example one question on the bingo card might say which food has the most saturated fat or grams of sugar?

Students will learn about the 6 basic nutrients. They will then learn how to keep track of there food intake using a food tracker app on the ipad. Through this information they will be able to analyze their diet and make corrections where necessary.

This is an interdisciplinary unit for Grade 3 on Nutrition. This lesson will help students better understand the benefits of eating nutritiously and ways they can eat healthier. Students will record their daily food intake and create a bar graph. We will discuss the consequences of poor nutrition in various cultures of the world. Students will learn various nutritional terms.

By understanding how nutrition effects physical and mental wellness, and through tracing the history of the United States through the Oregon Trail which led to western expansion, students have an opportunity to understand the physical and mental difficulties faced by those who traveled along the Oregon Trail, and relate how following the Dietary Guidelines for Americans may impact the health of individuals as well as communities.

Students will analyze their food and physical activity habits by keeping a food and exercise diary for three days. They will create a personal nutrition and activity plan and follow it for 3 days and report on their success.