Health

General Health Resources

Social, Personal, and Health Education Resources  (Y,M,O,T)
The PDST (Personal Development Service for Teachers) of Ireland has an extensive database of curricula, lessons, and resources available for download. Topics covered include Social and Emotional Health, Anti-Bullying, Internet Safety, Identity and Self Esteem, Personal Safety, Relationships, Alcohol and Substance Use, Physical Health and Nutrition, and more.

PBS Health & Physical Education Lesson Plans  (Y,M,O,T)
PBS has an extensive online collection of health lesson plans, videos, interactives, teacher’s guides, and more for PreK-12 students. Resources can be searched by grade, resource type, or the following sub-topics: Careers in Health and Physical Education; Consumer Health; Disease, Illness, and Disability; The Human Body and Life Cycle; Personal, Mental, and Emotional Health; Physical Education; Self, Family, Environment, and Society; and Skills for Healthy Living.

Together Counts™ Curriculum  (Y,M,T)
Together Counts is a site by Healthy LifeStars that offers health lessons, activities, presentations, and other resources for K-5 students. Topics cover physical, social, and emotional wellness.

Kids Environment Kids Health  (Y,M)
Kids Environment Kids Health is an educational website by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that covers a variety of personal and environmental health topics. You can find kid-friendly articles, games, activities, and lessons.

National Institute of Environment Health Sciences Education Materials  (Y,M,O,T)
National Institute of Environment Health Sciences has a large database of K-12 lesson plans and other resources covering personal and environmental health. Relevant topics include Air, Alcohol, Bacteria, Body, Disease, Food Safety, and more.

EVERFI Health & Wellness Courses  (Y,M,O,T)
EVERFI offers a large collection of K-12 lessons plans covering a variety of health and wellness topics, including Digital Safety, Prescription Drug Safety, Mental Wellness, Bullying Prevention, Health Literacy, and more.

BAM! Body and Mind Classroom Resources  (Y,M,T)
The CDC’s BAM! Body and Mind is a classroom resource portal for teachers of grades 4-8. It offers multiple study units, covering CDC basics, nutrition, physical education, health conditions and diseases, disabilities and birth defects, mental health and child development, injury prevention, and e-cigarettes and alcohol.

TeAchnology Health Lesson Plans  (Y,M,O,T)
TeAchnology offers a large collection of K-12 health lesson plans covering alcohol and substance abuse, conflict resolution, decision making, nutrition, disease, and general health and safety topics.

UEN Health Education Curriculum Resources  (Y,M,O,T)
The Utah Education Network has an extensive list of health lesson plans for grades K-12. Includes lessons, activities, presentations, and downloads covering physical health, fitness, nutrition, hygiene, disease prevention, substance abuse prevention, bullying, self awareness, and more.

KidsHealth  (Y,M,O,T)
KidsHealth is a site by The Nemours Foundation that has tons of articles for parents, kids, and teens. There’s also an educator’s section that contains teacher’s guides, handouts, activities, quizzes, and other resources.

Health Games for Kids  (Y,M)
Sheppard Software has a variety of games for kids covering health topics, including digestion, the skeleton, food groups, bacteria, and plant and animal cells.

Mental and Emotional Health

Social and Emotional Learning Resources  (Y,M,O,T)
SELspace is an educational website devoted to teaching and developing social and emotional skills in students of all ages. You can find books, presentations, videos, activities, and more for each of the following topics: Building Community, Self & Social Awareness, Mindfulness, Responsible Decision Making, Effective Communication, Healthy Relationships, Mindsets, and Kind Action.

The Positive Psychology Blog  (Y,M,O,T)
Positive Psychology is an online database of resources for mental health professionals, teachers, and anyone interested in teaching or learning emotional intelligence and social skills. Its blog contains a vast number of articles, games, activity ideas, and other resources for stress management, interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, communication, and more; and you can find resources applicable to all ages.

Physical Education

Operation FitKids Curriculum  (Y,M,O,T)
Free activity and nutrition lesson downloads for grades 3-5 and 6-8 from ACE Fitness.

fit by Sanford  (Y,M)
Activities to keep kids moving; includes sneaky ways to keep kids moving, making the best of indoor recess, ways to incorporate physical activity, related downloads, videos, lessons, games, and more.

Fuel Up to Play 60: Physical Activity Resources  (Y,M,O,T)
Fuel Up to Play 60 is a community wellness program by the NFL that offers physical education resources for parents and educators. Resources include video lessons, downloads, games, and more covering healthy eating, physical activity, sustainability, social emotional learning, and more.

See more: Physical Education Resources

Nutrition

EatRight.org  (M,O)
A site that provides articles on healthy eating and nutrition by The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Site includes healthy recipe videos, importance of vitamins, information on food groups, food safety tips, and more.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  (M,O,T)
A comprehensive collection of resources on healthy eating and nutrition. Includes articles, an informational database on different terms and food types, and information on sustainability in food production.

Health Educator’s Nutrition Toolkit: FDA  (M,O,T)
A teaching toolkit for nutrition and healthy eating educators, created by the Food and Drug Administration. Guides on how to teach students how to read nutritional labels and understand the information on them, helpful print-outs, fact sheets, and more.

See more: Nutrition Resources

Personal Health and Safety

EPA Children's Health Curriculum  (Y,M,T)
The EPA has a 9-lesson unit for kids covering physical and environmental safety and health. Topics covered include household hazards, sun safety, healthy water, and more.

Sun Safety for Kids  (Y,M)
The risk of developing skin cancer will be substantially reduced for children who learn to "Block the sun, not the fun!" Developed by dermatologists from The Los Angeles Metropolitan Dermatological Society, Sun Safety for Kids is dedicated to reducing the incidence of skin cancer through teaching and promoting sun protection to children. Teachers and parents are welcome to download and print copies of our activity and answer sheets. While helping to build vocabulary, spelling, reasoning, and creative skills, they provide an excellent tool for reinforcing the important health lessons.

SunWise Program  (Y,M,O,T)
An environmental and health education program by the EPA that aims to teach the public how to protect themselves from overexposure to the sun through the use of classroom-, school-, and community-based components.

Oral Health Literacy eBook  (Y,M,O,T)
This eBook for Oral Health Literacy is a free, online curriculum of picture stories showing children doing positive oral health habits with family, friends, and health professionals. Each photograph is supported by written and spoken scripts to promote self-efficacy and prosocial norms for oral hygiene, nutrition, and medication safety. Boost reading and talking about oral health in one-minute chapters while enhancing child-patient interactions at no cost to your clinic. From Miami University.

Growth, Development, and Identity

APA Unit Lesson Plans for High School Teachers of Psychology  (O,T)
The American Psychological Association has a large collection of unit lesson plans for high school students. Topics covered include emotion, development, social psychology, stress and health, psychological disorders, and more.

Growth and Development Resources for Educators  (Y,M,O,T)
These resources from the Brant County Health Unit cover physical, social, and emotional development. You can find teacher and parent guides, activity ideas, lessons, videos, and more. For grades 1-8.

Disease and Illness Prevention

Scrub Club®  (Y,T)
The Scrub Club® program is the first of its kind -- a fun, interactive and educational Web site that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. The site consists of a Webisode interactive games, educational music, downloadable activities for kids, educational materials for teachers and program information for parents.

Disease Lesson Plans  (Y,M,O,T)
The Science Learning Hub | Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao is a publicly-funded educational website for science in New Zealand. You can find tons of explainer articles and diagrams on disease, infection, and the immune system, activities, videos, slideshows, and multiple interactives.

FoodSafety.gov  (Y,M,O,T)
FoodSafety.gov has a big list of resources for learning about and practicing food safety. Topics include hand washing, food handling, food storage, cooking temperatures, food safety by type of food, and more.

CDC Health Curricula  (Y,M,O,T)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a large collection of curricula for K-12 students covering health and disease prevention. Topics include diabetes, epidemiology, sun safety, accessing health information, and more.

Substance Abuse Prevention

National Institute on Drug Abuse Lessons and Activities  (M,O,T)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has a searchable database of lessons and activities on the science and consequences of drug use. For grades 5-12.

Learning to Live Drug Free: A Curriculum Model for Prevention  (Y,M,O,T)
The US Department of Justice has a large, 119-page downloadable curriculum that’s been subdivided into sections by age group. Includes information, lessons, and activities on alcohol and substance abuse prevention for K-12 students.