Learn More About the Instructor Resources

There is one complete set of lesson materials for each lesson in the book. These resources include lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, unit tests, chapter tests, and lesson quizzes.

Videos

Each chapter includes a 3- to 4-minute video showing excerpts from teen interviews related to the chapter topic. These videos are meant to promote class discussion or to serve as self-reflection prompts. Students can view the videos and then take a few minutes to write their own answers to the questions posed. In class, the videos can be used either as a jumping-off point at the start of each chapter, or they can be shown at the end of the chapter to facilitate group discussion and reinforce the skills and concepts being taught.

Students have access to the videos from the IWT or WR. Teachers can access the videos from links in the lesson planners.

What's in a Lesson Plan

The lesson plans are all organized and presented in a consistent way. Each lesson plan includes the following elements and uses the supporting materials identified in the section that follows.

  1. Overview: A short statement that anchors the lesson content and can be used to remind students of the focus of the day.
  2. Learning Targets: Learning outcomes that are specific to the lesson plan. Learning targets include both cognitive and behavioral (skill) targets. Note that the learning targets are numbered sequentially in the chapter, that is, the numbering doesn't start over with a new lesson.
  3. Preparation: A complete description of all materials and preparations needed to successfully implement the lesson.
  4. Warm-Up Activity: Activities that can be used to get students focused and ready to learn. There are multiple options to choose from:
    1. Self-Assessment: A questionnaire for connecting with the content and reflecting on the content's relevance to the student's life. (This option appears in the first lesson of each chapter.)
    2. Journal Question: Students can write or discuss questions that solicit perspectives, understandings, and applications of lesson content. This is a great choice for reinforcing writing and reflection skills.
    3. Vocabulary Review: A simple tool to identify and consider key terms found in the lesson. The vocabulary review builds student vocabulary and can be especially helpful for students with learning challenges or for whom English is a second language.
    4. Quiz: A pretest for students and teachers to use to quickly assess prior learning to help focus the lesson.
  5. Lesson Content: Highlights the functional health knowledge needed to successfully complete the lesson focus. There are multiple options for working with the lesson content:
    1. PowerPoint slides can be used as an outline for lecture or discussion.
    2. A note-taking guide provides a graphic organizer that can help students identify and consider critical concepts in the lesson.
  6. Lesson Focus: At the heart of each lesson is an activity that focuses on skill development using the lesson content.
    1. Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Step-by-step instructions are provided, using a variety of instructional strategies to help students build essential health skills.
  7. Challenge Activity: An optional challenge activity is presented to allow for more proficient students to experience a more advanced level of engagement with the lesson. These may also be used or adapted as a homework task.
  8. Reflection and Summary: An easy way to reinforce learning and check for understanding using the lesson’s learning targets.
  9. Assessment: Assessment options that allow for summative assessment of the lesson:
    1. Lesson quiz
    2. Worksheet answer keys (for assessing performance on any of the worksheets from the lesson)

Lesson Plan Supporting Material Details

Self-Assessment Worksheet

The Self-Assessment Worksheet provides a way to have students complete the self-assessment that appears in the chapter opener of the student text. There is only one self-assessment per chapter, and the associated worksheet appears in lesson 1 of the chapter.

Vocabulary Review Worksheet

The Vocabulary Review worksheet is best used as a warm-up activity or as a task for less proficient or ELL students. This worksheet provides as a way for students to grasp and practice key vocabulary terms from the lesson. There is a separate ELL version if you choose to use it.

Note-Taking Guide

The Note-Taking Guide provides a graphic organizer that can be used by all students as a way to engage with lesson content. This guide can also be used to help students organize their understanding of key concepts as they read or to assess content knowledge, particularly among students who are less proficient. The guide is available as a separate handout for each individual lesson, or you can share the entire chapter’s guide with your students. Answers to the note-taking guides are included in the answer key.

Lesson Quizzes, Chapter Tests, and Unit Tests

There is a premade quiz for each lesson in the book. Each chapter has a ready-made test that covers all the material in the chapter. Each unit has a ready-made test that covers all the material in that unit. You can also create your own quizzes or tests. Questions may be selected based on the content or lesson or lesson objective.

Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet

This worksheet corresponds with the Skill-Building Challenge found in the text and aligns with step-by-step instructions for the skill-development activity provided in the lesson. Skill-Building Challenge Worksheets can be used to develop health skills and can also be used as formal graded assessment. When technology is integrated into a skill lesson, options are presented that allow successful completion of the challenge if the technology is not accessible to the teacher and students.

PowerPoint Slides

Modifiable PowerPoint slides highlight the most critical content from the lesson and are presented in a simple outline form that makes them easy to move through during the lesson.

Answer Key

Each chapter includes an answer key for the Vocabulary Review Worksheets the Note-Taking Guides, Test Your Knowledge, the Lesson Quizzes, Chapter Tests, and Unit Tests.

Unit-Level Supporting Materials

In addition to individual lessons for each chapter, a few unit-level resources are also available.

Analytic and Holistic Rubrics for Skill Assessment

In addition to lesson and unit-level resources, the Live Well program includes two full sets of analytic and holistic rubrics that can be used with almost all skill development activities in the book or in the lesson plans. These rubrics focus on the development and execution of health skills and are not specific to content. This allows them to be used across units and over time, thus helping teachers evaluate how well students are developing their health skills.