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.