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, and tests and quizzes.

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.
  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.
    3. Vocabulary Review: A simple tool to identify and consider key terms found in the lesson.
    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 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.

Lesson Quizzes and Chapter Tests

There is a premade quiz for each lesson in the book. In addition, each chapter has a ready-made test that covers all the material in the chapter. You can also create your own quizzes. Questions may be selected based on the content or lesson and based on difficulty level.

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.

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 Worksheet and the Note-Taking Guide.

Unit-Level Supporting Materials

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

Unit Quizzes

The test bank allows for customized quizzes to be created. Quiz questions can be selected based on lesson content and level of difficulty.

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 see how well students are developing their skills.