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Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education
"Specializes in developing programs for youth to address health concerns like childhood obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, tooth decay, drug and alcohol abuse, unintentional injuries, and teen pregnancy."
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Alcohol and other drugs
This lesson addresses the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs on a young person's body. It also covers the primary reasons why students try illicit drugs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)
By Tina Hartig.
The Health Adventure: A Health and Science Education Museum
Features information about the museum and its exhibitions. Teachers will find a free lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders about world climate change, reservations for school classes, and downloadable teacher visiting guide.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Millis Regional Health Education Center
Visitors are sure to have fun while they learn about the human body and how to stay healthy at this health education facility.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
ImaginOn
There is something for everybody at this wonderful facility which provides both theater and library related activities.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
It's all about choice
Students will examine the different choices they make as supporting or undermining their intent to remain abstinent, including the affect of substance use on those choices.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Kathy Crumpler.
Sex under the influence
The use of alcohol and other drugs increases the risk for unplanned, unprotected sex. This action exposes young people to HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy. The lesson engages students in the decision-making process regarding risk and checks their understanding of behaviors that put them at risk.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Kathy Crumpler.
Benjamin Wadsworth on the duties of children to their parents
In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.10
Excerpt from a book by an eighteenth-century Puritan minister about expectations for children's behavior and respect for their parents. Includes historical commentary.
Format: book
Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.