Essential Health Skills for Middle School is a complete educational package for teaching skills-based health education in the classroom. This second edition features core health topics such as nutrition, physical activity, and mental health plus cutting-edge health topics, such as vaping, opioid addiction, body positivity, self-compassion, social media, mindfulness, and digital citizenship.

The abundance of skills-based activities and assessments in Essential Health Skills for Middle School provides flexibility for teaching health and wellness in a relatable, skills-driven way. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice and develop the skills they need to make healthy choices now and throughout their lives.

Each chapter contains skills-based activities that align to the health skill areas in the National Health Education Standards. These activities were created by experts and award-winning health education teachers.
Extensive supplements include customizable lesson plans for each lesson and chapter review, teacher-directed activities with handouts, vocabulary activities, reading guides, parent/trusted adult engagement assignments, review activities for differentiation, performance assessments, standard-based grading assessments, workbook activities, animations, and videos.
Key Terms with definitions appear at the beginning of each lesson to provide a base of information for student learning. In addition, the Glossary includes all key terms with their definitions in both English and Spanish.