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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-3, students watch the BrainPOP Jr. movie Mindfulness and explore related resources to learn about mindfulness, and how practicing it can help them notice and accept their thoughts, emotions, senses, and actions. They’ll also discover that gratitude and empathy can help change the way we think and act. The lesson will culminate in creating a class Gratitude Book to describe and identify moments when students felt grateful.  

We all feel sad sometimes. Make a list of the things you love doing with The Mooderators, and next time you feel sad, you can try one of those things!

This video clip will help young students identify their emotions and learn to express them in a healthy, safe way. This video clip has an associated resource that students can use to identify strategies that will help them work through their feelings in a positive manner.

Serving Up MyPlate is a collection of classroom materials that helps elementary school teachers integrate nutrition education into Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health. This yummy curriculum introduces the importance of eating from all five food groups using the MyPlate  icon and a variety of hands-on activities. Students also learn the importance of physical activity in staying healthy.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Putting a face to the various emotions we feel! This song explores how we might behave and look when we're feeling happy, sad, or lonely.

How much do your students know about the heart? Find out by taking this quiz!

This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the disconnect between news headlines and the scientific research they cover. While headlines are designed to catch attention, many studies produce meaningful results when they focus on a narrow, specific question. So how can you figure out what’s a genuine health concern and what’s less conclusive? Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan explain how to read past the headline. The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

What's the word on the street? Murray introduces the vocabulary word "empathy." This video introduces young students to the importance of being able to understand another person's feelings and actions.

This resource explains a "Couch to 5K" program and what one must consider before attempting this training. This informational material gives great tips and suggestions for students to understand to be successful. Additionally, this site has links to a specific training program. 

This resource provides an interactive guide to engage, explore, apply, and reflect on heart rate. Resting and target heart rate activities are included in addition to guiding application questions for each. 

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Dad starts the bedtime routine by giving Daniel his bubble bath. While the water is running, Daniel picks out which bath toys he wants to play with. Dad helps Daniel wash his body. Daniel imagines that he is on a boat and sings a song about bath time. Help kids understand that hygiene is essential in taking good care of their bodies.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the number one cause of death in the United States for student-athletes during exercise. Caused by a structural or electrical problem associated with the heart, Sudden Cardiac Arrest happens when the heart unexpectedly stops beating and pumping blood. This is why the National Federation of State High School Associations, in partnership with Simon’s Heart, has developed the course Sudden Cardiac Arrest. This course could be taken by students or it could be used as informational material for teachers as they develop their lesson/unit plans. 

You could be put in situations where it is important to know some basic skills so that you can survive long enough to be rescued. There are 5 basic survival skills that everyone should know.

It’s been said that in a survival situation you can live 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 minutes without air, and 3 seconds without a clear mind. This informational material goes over five basic survival skills everyone should know.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Want to make a difference? Discover a medical career that takes care of people like a doctor with less hands-on practice than a nurse. 

This planner offers a structured guide to help students set meaningful and productive SMART goals. This 7-page document can be printed and copied for student use or assigned digitally for students to complete the fillable pdf. 

This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through understanding the importance of positive sleep habits.

In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience: staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. Claudia Aguirre shows what happens to your body and brain when you skip sleep.

The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Jon Epstein is a virus hunter - he chases viruses that can cause outbreaks of infectious disease. Follow Jon as he hunts the path of the Nipah virus from fruit bats to humans in Bangladesh. This video can be played during a lesson on major outbreaks and epidemics in the world.

Health systems of 4 countries are examined: Canada, France, Germany, and Great Britain (United Kingdom). From the 4 country reports published in this issue of the American Journal of Public Health, 10 crosscutting themes emerge: (1) coverage, (2) funding, (3) costs, (4) providers, (5) integration, (6) markets, (7) analysis, (8) supply, (9) satisfaction, and (10) leadership. Lessons for the United States are presented under each point.

This resource is information on how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others- specifically human trafficking. The resource provides additional resources on the topic of human trafficking that you could use to develop a meaningful lesson plan.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Daniel goes to the doctor for his regular checkup. Before his visit, he's feeling a little uneasy. Daniel and Mom Tiger talk, draw and play about some of the things that might happen at Dr. Anna's office. This video can be played during a lesson on community health helpers.

Each day, America’s teenagers are bombarded with misleading messages about drugs. Glamorized by media and endorsed by peers, the consequences of drug use and experimentation are dangerously disguised, and often hidden altogether. The reality is that drug use can alter a teen’s life forever. That’s why every student should be given the tools to make a decision against using drugs - and the best place to give them those tools is your classroom.

This resource is lesson 3. 

This resource provides information about the benefits of practicing sexual abstinence provided by UC SANTA CRUZ. People are abstinent for many reasons, including preventing pregnancy. Whether you're thinking about being abstinent, you are abstinent, or you're just someone who's curious about it, you may have many questions.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Two doctors explain that, while antibiotics have helped protect people from infections since becoming widely available after World War II, this unique class of drugs is losing its effectiveness from overuse. The more exposure bacteria have to an antibiotic, the more likely they will develop resistance to the antibiotic. Because as much as half of all antibiotic use in the United States is either unnecessary or inappropriate, more and more people may die of infections that were once easily treatable. 

This online resource is the National Drug and Alcohol IQ Challenge quiz about alcohol and drug use. This quiz is online but does have print and Spanish versions. There are two formats for this quiz- an online quiz and a downloadable PDF document. 

This free resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teaches students the effects of tobacco use on the body. In this lesson, students conduct an experiment that demonstrates what goes into a person’s lungs with each puff of a cigarette. Then, students will view an interactive Web animation that gives a 360-degree view of the organs in the human body and an explanation of how tobacco use affects each organ.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Learn how the recent resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis, the most severe form of “black lung” disease, in miners across Appalachia has been linked to the failure of coal-mine regulations to limit silica dust levels in these excerpts from Coal’s Deadly Dust | FRONTLINE, in partnership with NPR.

The Melanoma Education Foundation is committed to providing free melanoma education and encourages you to review and download the PDFs. Feel free to print and distribute these materials to your students.

We spend more time than ever using media and everywhere we turn there are messages telling us how we should look that can make us feel less confident about our appearance. While we’re probably not going to use fewer media, we can protect our self-image and body confidence from media’s narrow-body ideals that reinforce thinness for women and muscularity for men. It’s all about asking the right questions. 

This free video resource from PBS LearningMedia can be used to teach students the dangers of vaping.  Between 2011 - 2012, the use of e-cigarettes amongst 6th - 12th graders more than doubled. Youth Radio looks at the new trend of vaping, and why it's popular among young people. Do vape pens trick teens? That is the focus of this activity. Students should watch the video to facilitate discussion before the activity. Then students can participate in the suggested activities including an interview, reflection questions, and a class debate (included under support materials).

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.

In this TV411 activity, students are introduced to aspects of diabetes. The video clip in this activity explores how to tally the amount of carbohydrates one consumes each day. Students then learn to calculate the percentages of people who have diabetes.

Stress is a part of life, but students may have difficulty coping and feel overwhelmed, which can increase the risk for drug use. The article “Stressed Out?” helps explain how the body’s stress response system works, as well as the health consequences of ongoing (chronic) stress. Students will learn how their bodies respond to stress, and how they can manage under pressure.

An interesting lesson about our very special community helpers. Teach your students how important each job is for our safety and health. Encourage them to think about what they would like to be when they grow up.

This free video resource from PBS LearningMedia teaches students the importance of communicating while playing sports.  Playing outside makes kids happier, healthier and stronger! In this segment, Abby Brown visits a softball practice and discovers constant communication is a crucial part of working together as a team in order to succeed.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

“Hooked Rx: From Prescription to Addiction” is a special investigative project on the destructive epidemic of opioid addiction, produced by advanced journalism students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. 

This fact sheet for teens provides facts about opioids. It describes short- and long-term effects and lists signs of opioid use. The fact sheet helps to dispel common myths about opioids. This is a free download and could be displayed in the classroom or used for class discussion.