Grade 6 to 8 Middle School Health Lesson Plans

 
  • Cross Contamination of Food - It is important for students to know how to be safe when they are cooking. In this lesson students will review what they know about cross contamination and ways they can help prevent it.
  • Emergency Central Nervous System - In this lesson, students will get up out of their chairs and demonstrate how the central nervous system works in an emergency.
  1. Gross Motor Development - The student will be able to move arms,legs and maintain balance while in swimming pool.
  2. Healthy Eating - Students will learn about healthy food habits and the realtionship between a healthy diet and physical activity.
  3. How To Handle Stress - Students will be able to define stress, stress-or, stress response, distress, eustress.
  4. How to Have Healthy Teeth! - Students will know the importance of brushing and flossing their teeth and they will know why they need to brush and floss.
  5. Patient with Anterior Knee Pain - A basic understanding of anterior knee pain, cause,and how it is treated with physical therapy interventions.
  6. Personal Safety - Identification of ways to increase personal safety in the community.
  7. Reading the Label - In this lesson, students will learn how to read a food label. They will have to find information about ingredients, calories, and nutrition.
  8. Risk Reduction - Identification of factors that increase and decrease chances of being hurt.
  9. Settling Disputes - To provide a strategy to students in 6-8 to settle simple disagreements.
  10. Self esteem - Students this age are often able to find many things wrong with themselves. This lesson challenges them to focus on the positive aspects of who they are.
  11. Stress Management and Prevention - A basic introduction to the concept.
  12. Teen Pregnancy - This lesson is about teenage pregnancy the sexuality that starts and the birth control that may prevent pregnancy and dieases that are hand in hand with having sex.
  13. Tobacco and Your Body - A great group of ideas for a lesson on tobacco and all forms.
  14. What Do You See - In this lesson, students examine the body's symmetry. They will compare pictures of people and look at how symmetrical their features are.
  15. What is Peace? - To help children gain an understanding that peace is more than the negation of violence.

Grade 6 to 8 Middle School Health Lesson Plans

  1. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?