Live Well Comprehensive High School Health Ebook With Web Resource (1-yr)

Live Well: Comprehensive High School Health helps students understand the importance of developing healthy habits, eating well, and being physically active. They’ll also learn how to maintain emotional, mental, and social health; how to avoid risky behaviors; and how to protect themselves and the environment.

Through the text, students will develop skills like these:

• Identifying reliable sources of health information and becoming savvy consumers
• Strengthening decision making skills as they identify healthy solutions in challenging situations
• Sharpening communication skills as they share health knowledge, engage in advocacy, and manage interpersonal conflicts
• Analyzing the influences of family, peers, media, and technology on their health and wellness

Students will also learn to set goals, establish healthy living plans, advocate for healthy living at home and in their communities, and discern how health and technology intersect.

Aligned With Standards
Live Well: Comprehensive High School Health includes comprehensive health content that is aligned with the National Health Education Standards as well as many state standards.

Features
The text offers students a variety of features and tools:

• Skill-building activities to develop health literacy
• Case studies, healthy living tips, career connections, writing prompts, cross-curricular connections, and more tools to learn and apply health concepts and skills
• Vocabulary terms and definitions, available in both English and Spanish, with audio pronunciations
• Worksheets and quizzes; modified versions of the worksheets meet the needs of ELL and ESL students

Print, Digital, and Teacher Resources
Live Well: Comprehensive High School Health is available as a hardcover text, an ebook, and an interactive web text (IWT). Students can access the IWT from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. It contains the same content as the print book but uses interactive audio, video, worksheets, and other tools to help students engage with the material and to enhance learning. Live Well: Comprehensive High School Health is the only interactive ebook on the market in both English and Spanish. (The interactive web text is available separately to schools that adopt the student textbook. Please contact the Human Kinetics K-12 sales department for details.)

The print book and ebook also come with a web resource that offers easy access to materials referenced in the text, including note-taking guides, vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, Skill-Building Challenge worksheets, and chapter reviews. Schools that adopt the student text can also get a teacher’s guide in an online format or as a PDF.

With its flexibility, its high-quality content, and its alignment with national and state standards, Live Well: Comprehensive High School Health is a great resource to help high school students learn and practice the skills that will lead to a life of health and wellness.

Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.

Audience

Text for high school students; resource for teachers, curriculum directors, health and PE specialists, and other administrators or decision makers in grades 9-12.

Unit I. Foundations of Living Well
Chapter 1. Understanding My Health
Lesson 1.1 Exploring Health and Wellness
Lesson 1.2 Developing Skills for Healthy Living
Lesson 1.3 My Immune System
Lesson 1.4 Communicable Diseases
Lesson 1.5 Noncommunicable Diseases

Chapter 2. Personal and Consumer Health
Lesson 2.1 Personal Health Habits
Lesson 2.2 Healthy Vision and Hearing
Lesson 2.3 Healthy Sleep and Rest
Lesson 2.4 Being a Healthy Consumer

Chapter 3. Health Equity and Public Health
Lesson 3.1 Understanding Health Equity
Lesson 3.2 Disability and Inclusion
Lesson 3.3 Public Health

Unit II. Eating Well and Being Physically Active
Chapter 4. Food and Your Health
Lesson 4.1 Understanding Foods and Nutrients
Lesson 4.2 Energy Balance, Hunger, and Appetite
Lesson 4.3 Tips and Tools for Eating Well
Lesson 4.4 The Digestive and Urinary Systems
Lesson 4.5 Making Healthy Nutrition Decisions

Chapter 5. Managing Good Nutrition
Lesson 5.1 Eating Well Across the Lifespan
Lesson 5.2 Food Access and Safety
Lesson 5.3 Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Lesson 5.4 Your Body Image
Lesson 5.5 Your Nutrition Plan

Chapter 6. Staying Active and Healthy
Lesson 6.1 Being Physically Active and Physically Fit
Lesson 6.2 Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness Components
Lesson 6.3 Preparing for Physical Activity
Lesson 6.4 Fitness Planning

Unit III. Your Emotional, Mental, and Social Well-Being
Chapter 7. Emotional Wellness
Lesson 7.1 Your Emotional Health
Lesson 7.2 Building Self-Awareness
Lesson 7.3 Developing Emotional Health and Mental Toughness
Lesson 7.4 Recognizing and Managing Stress
Lesson 7.5 Understanding Grief and Loss

Chapter 8. Mental Health
Lesson 8.1 Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders
Lesson 8.2 Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders
Lesson 8.3 Depression and Mood Disorders
Lesson 8.4 Self-Harm and Suicide

Chapter 9. Relationships and Social Health
Lesson 9.1 Relationships and Communication Skills
Lesson 9.2 Family Relationships
Lesson 9.3 Friendships
Lesson 9.4 Dating Relationships

Unit IV. Destructive and Damaging Behaviors
Chapter 10. Violence and Conflict
Lesson 10.1 Understanding Violent Behavior
Lesson 10.2 Anger, Aggression, and Conflict
Lesson 10.3 Bullying and Hazing
Lesson 10.4 Violence, Weapons, and Gangs
Lesson 10.5 Relationships and Violence

Chapter 11. Alcohol
Lesson 11.1 Alcohol Use, Effects, and Consequences
Lesson 11.2 Influences and Alcohol
Lesson 11.3 Treating Alcohol Use Disorders

Chapter 12. Tobacco and E-Cigarettes
Lesson 12.1 Tobacco Products and Vaping
Lesson 12.2 Regulations and Influences on Tobacco Product Use
Lesson 12.3 Avoiding and Quitting Tobacco Product Use

Chapter 13. Legal and Illicit Drugs
Lesson 13.1 Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs
Lesson 13.2 Illicit Drugs
Lesson 13.3 Influences on the Use of Drugs
Lesson 13.4 Prevention, Treatment, and Being Drug-Free

Unit V. Protecting Yourself and the Environment
Chapter 14. Injury Prevention, Safety, and First Aid
Lesson 14.1 Injury Prevention and Safety at Home
Lesson 14.2 Safety in the Community
Lesson 14.3 Safety Online
Lesson 14.4 First Aid and Emergency Procedures

Chapter 15. Environmental Health
Lesson 15.1 Air, Water, and Noise Pollution
Lesson 15.2 Chemicals, the Environment, and Your Health
Lesson 15.3 Conservation and Living Green

Glossary/Glosario

Karen E. McConnell, PhD, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, is a certified health education specialist. She has taught at the university level for more than 25 years in areas related to health and fitness education, curriculum and assessment, and exercise science. She has written or contributed to over a dozen book chapters and texts, including Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education, as well as the teacher resources for the fifth and sixth editions of Fitness for Life. She is a past recipient of the Dr. G. Arthur Broten Young Scholars Award and has received the University Professional of the Year Award from the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance for contributions made to state standards in health and fitness. She enjoys running and participating in most outdoor activities.

Terri D. Farrar, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the kinesiology teacher education program at Pacific Lutheran University. She has taught health and fitness education at the middle school and high school levels for over 29 years and has taught health and fitness pedagogy at Pacific Lutheran University for over 10 years. She coauthored the Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education textbooks and teacher resources. She is a member of SHAPE America and of the Washington chapter of SHAPE America. She was SHAPE Washington’s University Professor of the Year in 2019 and is the assessment chairperson for SHAPE Washington. She enjoys traveling, working out, and coaching.

Charles B. (“Chuck”) Corbin, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. He coauthored two health series for use in grades K-8 and is the senior author of several award-winning elementary, middle school, high school, and college texts, including Fitness for Life: Elementary School, Fitness for Life: Middle School, and the sixth edition of Fitness for Life, all of which were winners of Texty Awards, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). He is also author of the 13th edition of Concepts of Fitness and Wellness, winner of the TAA’s McGuffey Award. His books are the most widely adopted public school and college texts in the area of fitness, health, and wellness. Dr. Corbin is internationally recognized as an expert in physical activity, health, and wellness promotion and youth physical fitness. Among his many honors are the Luther H. Gulick Award from SHAPE America; the Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the National Jaycees; and the Hetherington Award from the National Academy of Kinesiology. He was named to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame.

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Live Well High School Health Teacher Collection

An extensive Teacher Collection of resources is available to instructors and school systems that adopt the student text. The collection features a digital version of the student text with interactive assessments as well as a teacher’s guide that includes detailed lesson plans, lesson planning guides, ideas for differentiated instruction, and best practices for delivering the content. Extensive resources for use by students and teachers include worksheets, note-taking guides, chapter summaries, quizzes and tests, videos, and PowerPoint slides.