Search ALEX...

This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey tells how two scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, used the research findings of Alexander Fleming to turn a natural compound, penicillin, into an effective treatment for bacterial infections. Their tests in mice and later in human patients demonstrated penicillin's ability to cure such infections. 

In this lesson, students will explore the structure of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its role in the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Students will be expected to discuss challenges the WHO has faced in responding to the Ebola outbreak. This lesson will culminate with the students creating a poster to help the WHO get more people involved in the effort to stop the Ebola epidemic.

Most kids (and most adults) understand the need to make healthy food choices, get enough sleep, or participate in physical activity regularly. But people do not always base their actions on what they know. One of the challenges of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to help people translate health information into action.

In this activity, students review the components of the Energy Equation: Food + Sleep + Physical Activity = Energy. They think about the barriers to and benefits of acting on each component of the equation. Finally, students develop a plan for putting their health knowledge into practice.

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

Rain Adams (age 12, Colorado) talks about her passion for healthy eating and how it inspired her to create her Healthy Lunchtime Challenge winning recipe for Rain’s Turkey Chili, in this video from WGBH. Rain, who as a nine-year-old started her own vegan pet treat company, learned to cook from her mother. She says it’s fun for kids to get in the kitchen and make healthy foods. This video can be played during a lesson on health practices and behaviors.

Exertional Heat Stroke is the leading cause of preventable death in high school athletics. To help you minimize the risk of heat illness at your school, this course has designed to provide the fundamentals of a strong heat acclimatization plan and guidelines for limiting activities to account for changing environmental conditions and other contributing risk factors. It highlights the importance of an appropriate hydration plan and establishing an Emergency Action Plan in case of a suspected exertional heat stroke.

This course can be used as a stand alone assignment for students or teachers can use this to develop their unit/lesson plans.

Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health. This is informational material on good nutrition and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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

"No more screen time!" Many frustrated parents have issued that edict to kids who all-too-frequently have their noses buried in the screen of a digital device! This episode talks to education experts to set the record straight: In terms of learning impacts, when does a screen work best, and when should kids be engaged in alternative forms of interactions, such as textbooks, human, and hands-on projects? 

This short, animated video teaches how someone would call 911 using a variety of different phones.

Prescription Drug Safety is an innovative digital course that focuses on high school students, arming them with the knowledge and tools to make healthy, informed decisions. By empowering students with substance abuse prevention education at an early age, we can help the next generation stop opioid abuse.

Through interactive scenarios and self-guided activities, students learn about a range of topics, including the science of addiction, how to properly use and dispose of prescription drugs, and how to intervene when faced with a situation involving drug misuse. 

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

Practice bringing mindfulness into your life by participating in our short, guided mindfulness exercise. This video is from Kindness in the Classroom, is designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. This helps students have empathy toward their peers and problem-solve with respect and kindness. This video is more of a training video to show teachers how to teach students guided mindfulness exercises that impact personal health.

There is a mental health crisis among our country’s youth. Young adolescents (10-14) are experiencing increased rates of mental health challenges and youth of color, in particular, face the additional trauma of systemic racism and greater challenges in accessing the support they need.

Sound It Out uses the power of music to help parents and caregivers have meaningful conversations with their middle schoolers about emotional wellbeing. This website includes videos that promote conversations related to this topic. 

This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation of HIV and global efforts toward eradicating the disease.

The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: eradicating HIV. And to do this, we won’t even have to cure the disease. We simply have to stop HIV from being transmitted until eventually, it fizzles out. Philip A. Chan explores the preventive strategies helping us tackle HIV and the possibility of ending the epidemic.

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.

Finn shows us how he gets ready for bed. He takes a bath, brushes his teeth, puts on his pajamas, reads a bedtime story with his mom and dad, and sometimes they sing a song. Teach kids that a bedtime routine will help them get a full night's sleep.

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 11. To access videos and materials: Project Alert.com

Miss Penny and the KidVision Kids visit the pediatrician's office to find out what happens during a wellness checkup. The kids sign in on the appointment sheet, get weighed and measured, they participate in a full wellness exam, and learn the names of the medical instruments the nurse and doctor use.

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

Dive deeper into a teacher's career and find out how this community helper assists in emergency situations. Make A Plan: Download, print and complete these resources to practice emergency preparedness in your home or classroom.

Dive deeper into a 911 operator's career and find out how this helper assists in emergency situations. Download, print, and complete paired resources to help students practice emergency preparedness in their homes and classroom.

While the distinction may appear nuanced, there are clear differences behind the meanings and purposes of tattling vs telling. Tattling is generally associated with reputation, such as when students attempt to get one another in trouble for minor incidents or try to gain favor by making themselves appear heroic while telling, on the other hand, is an effort to alert an adult to more serious incidents or safety concerns.

Helping students recognize the difference between tattling and telling is a complicated dance that requires direct instruction, practice, and ongoing support in the classroom. While it’s fairly simple for students to understand the necessity for rules and the expectations that they convey, it can be quite another task for children to determine when rule breaking is something that must be reported.

This free video resource from PBS LearningMedia teaches students the importance of visiting the dentist. Like any new experience, going to the dentist can be scary for young children. In this video, two brothers take us on a trip to the dentist that explains what is happening at every step. The older brother introduces the people who work in the office, describes their jobs, and explains how each instrument is used.

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

Thinking about becoming a dental hygienist? Brush up on this career path and learn what it takes to help people maintain healthy and happy smiles. 

Objectives:

- Recognize that healthful food choices can enhance body composition and self-concept.

- Identify and understand the social, cultural, and psychological factors that influence food choices.

This free video resource from KidsHealth teaches students about Type II Diabetes.  This video contains a brief (under 2 minute) overview of Type II Diabetes appropriate for grades 4 and 5.  

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

Everyone loves music! Learn about music therapy, as a profession, and how it is used to increase communication, inclusion and builds skills for people with disabilities.

This lesson helps young people understand the reasons that we bathe. The youth will take part in a demonstration that helps them visualize how germs are spread from person to person. Finally, they will practice proper hand-washing with soap.

EJScreen is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides users with the ability to overlap data and visualize how human demographics impact environmental indicators. EJScreen users choose a geographic area in the upper right-hand search bar, then layer data such as lead paint (under the pollution header) with health disparities such as cancer to examine the health challenges facing the world today.  For example, Tallapoosa County, AL is in the 35th percentile for lead paint and the 97th percentile for cancer among adults. EJScreen is a powerful tool, and users can better learn how to use it with videos and user guides on the site.

This free resource from KidsHealth includes informational material to teach students about depression. Depression is more than occasionally feeling blue, sad, or down in the dumps. Depression is a strong mood involving sadness, feelings of discouragement, despair, or hopelessness that may last for weeks, months, or longer. This resource outlines the difference between depression and general sadness, the signs of, and treatment for depression.

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

Daniel and Miss Elaina try new food -- with mixed results! Help kids understand that being able to try new food is an important skill to learn.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.

This is a resource that teachers can make students aware of in the event that a student needs emotional support.

In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch videos and complete interactive activities to learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a mathematics focus on proportional reasoning. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words, and explore content through videos and interactive activities

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

Discover why the crucial factor that can determine whether your next workplace interaction goes well isn’t what you say, but how you listen. Host Camille talks with two professionals and learns what not to do in her next interview. She also learns simple things she can do to show respect to anyone she talks with and truly hear what they’re saying.

Cigarettes aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news -- we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us, and can our bodies recover if we stop? Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke -- and when we quit.

This activity will help physical education teachers teach health education while keeping the students moving. It reinforces animal movements, works on muscular strength and endurance, and teaches nutrition.

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

This video demonstrates helpful teeth brushing tips, such as remembering to brush the back teeth and timing yourself to be sure that you brush long enough. It’s important to introduce children to healthy habits and to reinforce these habits while they are young so that they become automatic.

As a teacher in a kindergarten classroom, you can generate interest and excitement by encouraging children to use their five senses to explore the world around them. You can select a few of these activities to supplement your classroom lessons or use the entire kit for a full exploration of the senses.

The sense of hearing can be used to discuss good listening skills.