Drugs, Tobacco, Alcohol

Understanding the dangers of drugs, tobacco, and alcohol must encourage you to choose a substance-free lifestyles. Knowing from now what are these substances makes you aware so you can make the proper decisions to build a healthy future life free of unnecessary risks.
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Lesson 1
What are drugs?
Focuses on drugs as medicines and helps you understand how prescription and over-the-counter medicines can be used safety.

Lesson 2
What Tobacco does to your body?
Explores the harmful effects of cigarette smoking and of using smokeless tobacco.

Lesson 3
What Alcohol does to your body?
Helps you understand how drinking affects health and emphasizes why teens should avoid all forms of alcohol.

Nutrition and Fitness

In this chapter you will learn about the importance of nutrition and exercise, and how teens should make healthy food choices and establish a realistic exercise plan.

Introduction
Calories is a unit of heat that measures the energy available in foods. In this video you will understand that calculating calories is a difficult task, and that it can be easy to miscalculate the amount of calories there are in a given food stuff.

Lesson 1
Nutrients for your body

Label Reading

Food label game

Lesson 2
The Five Food Groups

My Plate Brochure (click here to dowload)

Lesson 3
Making Healthy Food Choices

Your Body: Growing and Changing

In this chapter you will understand the stages of human development from birth to adolescence and you will explore the factors that influence human behavior.

Lesson 1
The Beginning of life
Describes how life starts and explains the growth process of a developing baby before birth.


Videos:

Fertilization

Identical Twins

Lesson 2
What makes you unique?
Identifies the factors that make each human unique.

What are genes?

Gregor Mendel's  Punnett Square

Where do your genes come from?

Lesson 3
Childhood and Adolescence
Explores the physical, mental, and emotional changes that take place during childhood and adolescence.

Social end Emotional Health

In this chapter we explore how we relate with our family and friends.

During your teen years you are going through changes and emotional ups and downs, so it is important to understand that emotions and social relations are complex issues. But if you master tools such as effective communication, create strong friendships, learn how to deal with conflicts, this will yield lifelong dividends in your emotional health and in your relations with friends, family, and acquaintances.

The  ppts you can view here are going to be the ones included in your test, but I advice you to read the lessons of this chapter in your textbook.

Your Friends
Lesson 1

Your Family
Lesson 2

Communicating Thoughts and Feelings
Lesson 3

Managing Stress
Lesson 4

Effects of stress in our bodies

This video is part of your evaluation for this lesson. You will watch it in class.

Resolving Conflicts
Lesson 5

Setting Goals

Starting now to decide what you want to accomplish will help you plan the steps you need to take: that's what Setting Goals is about.

Find out in "Class works & activities" what's your presentation about.

Class:
Setting Goals*

* Click in each lesson to download the presentation after each class

A Healthy You

In this chapter you will learn that health and wellness is related to your levels of physical, mental and emotional, and social well-being. You have to make the proper choices, find out how.

We will be planning for a healthy lifetime by understanding:

1. The Health triangle*
2. Your Self-Concept* (go to "Topics" to find out more)
3. Decision Making*

* Click in each lesson to download the presentation after each class