Life Skills or Art of True Healing

Life Skills: 225 Ready-to-Use Health Activities for Success and Well-Being (Grades 6-12)

Author: Sandra McTavish

Life Skills is a practical resource that gives teachers 225 ready-to-use worksheets that cover a wide variety of key life skills. The book addresses topics such as drug and alcohol use, sex, relationships, stress, food-related issues, and self-esteem. Life Skills is an easy-to-use, time-saving book that is designed for grades 6-12 and helpful for both new and seasoned teachers. For quick access and easy use, the worksheets are organized into eight sections and are printed in a large 8 1/2” x 11” format that folds flat for photocopying. Here’s an overview of what you’ll find in each section:

 Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking: Trends in smoking, second-hand smoke, reasons why people smoke and ways to help people quit, facts about drug use, the classification of different drugs, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as drinking and driving.

Sex and Sex-Related Issues: Male and female sex organs, why people have sex, facts and myths, birth control, options after getting pregnant, sexually transmitted diseases, homosexuality, infertility options, sexual harassment, and date rape.

Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family: The role of friends in our lives, negative aspects of cliques, dating and love, love and infatuation, qualities in an ideal mate, problems in marriage, why marriages end, family life cycles, and nontraditional families.

Life Skills: High and low self-esteem, long and short range goals, learning assertive behavior, dealing with difficult people, conflict resolution, what makes a good leader, effective communication and time managementskills, and problems with violence.

Stress: What makes you stressed?, reactions to stress, coping with stress, suicide, death, and dying.

Food and Food Related Issues: Improving eating habits, the food pyramid, information about calories, water, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, additives, and eating disorders.

Know Your Body and Body Image: Body image and type, the functions of differnet organs, body parts, body systems and terminology, viruses and bacteria, basic first aid, diagnosing and solving emergency problems, fitness habits, and four components of fitness.

Self Esteem and Knowing Yourself: Favorite things, handwriting, personality type, birth order, highs and lows, and five senses.

Table of Contents:

	About the Author	v
	About This Book	vii
Section 1	Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking
1	Word Association	2
2	What Drug Am I?	3
3	Trends in Tobacco Use	4
4	Time Line: A Short History of Tobacco and Cigarette Use	5
5	Thoughts About Secondhand Smoke	6
6	Young Kids and Smoking	7
7	Show Me the Money	8
8	Getting Tough on Smoking: An Editorial	9
9	Antismoking Slogans	10
10	You Be the Judge	11
11	Classifying the Types of Drugs	12
12	The Types-of-Drugs Chart	13
13	Facts and Myths on Drug Use	14
14	Time Line: History of Drug Regulations in the United States	15
15	Drug Use and Different Ages	16
16	The Drug-Use Continuum	17
17	The Marijuana Expert	18
18	To Legalize or Not to Legalize?	19
19	A Venn Diagram Comparing Tobacco and Marijuana	20
20	Caffeine	21
21	The Truth About Anabolic Steroids	22
22	Tic-Tac Drugs: Teacher Page	23
22a	Tic-Tac Drugs: Student Page	24
23	The Effects of Alcohol	25
24	Is Drinking a Problem for You?	26
25	Reasons, Reasons, Reasons	27
26	The Staircase of Decisions with Drinking	28
27	The Gray of Alcoholism	29
28	Thoughts About Drinking and Driving	30
29	A Letter from a Child with FAS	31
30	Express Yourself	32
31	Word Removal	33
Section 2	Sex and Sex-Related Issues
32	Words and Slang	36
33	Facts and Myths About Sex	37
34	Reasons Why People Have Sex	38
35	Sexuality Throughout Our Lifetime	39
36	The Four Phases of Sexual Intercourse	40
37	Male versus Female	41
38	The Birth Control Chart	42
39	Birth Control Crossword	43
40	No Condom, No Sex: Talking to Your Partner About Condoms	44
41	Dr. Birth Control	45
42	Some Thoughts on Abstinence	46
42a	The Some-Thoughts-on-Abstinence Chart	47
43	What Should Vanessa Do?	48
44	Facts About Adoption	49
45	What to Avoid During Pregnancy	50
46	Stages in the Womb	51
47	STI Unscramble	52
48	Dr. STI	53
49	Ways of Acquiring HIV	54
50	Attitudes About AIDS: We've Come a Long Way Since the 1980s	55
51	A Poem About an AIDS Victim	56
52	Facts About Homosexuality	57
53	Options for Couples Who Want a Child (But Are Having Infertility Problems)	58
54	Surrogate Rights	59
55	Sexual Harassment Facts	60
56	Sexual Harassment or Not Sexual Harassment?	61
57	Date Rape	62
58	Date-Rape Decisions	63
59	Finish the Story	64
60	Dear Rudy ...	65
61	Sex Jeopardy	66
62	It Takes Three	67
63	Alphabet Soup	68
Section 3	Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family
64	A Relationship Balloon Tree	70
65	The Relationship Chart	71
66	Circle of Friends	72
67	Different Friends, Different Occasions	73
68	All About Cliques	74
69	Break the Clique	75
70	Finish the Sentences on Dating	76
71	The Singles Ads	77
72	How Do Couples Meet?	78
73	Steps in a Relationship	79
74	Is It Love or Infatuation?	80
75	Love Quotations	81
76	Sternberg's Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet	82
77	Sternberg's Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet 2	83
78	Sternberg's Love Triangle Theory: Worksheet 3	84
79	What Type of Lover Are You?	85
80	What Matters to You?	86
81	Qualities You Seek in a Mate	87
82	To Live Together or Not to Live Together	88
83	Marriage Quotations	89
84	Marriage Vows	90
85	A Marriage Check-off List	91
86	How Expensive Is It?	92
87	Talk-Show Marriage Talk	93
88	Can These Marriages Be Saved?	94
89	Why Do Relationships End?	95
90	Looking at the Family	96
91	Family Challenges	97
92	If Parenthood Required a License ...	98
93	Stages in the Family Life Cycle	99
94	Who's in What Stage of the Family Life Cycle?	100
Section 4	Life Skills
95	Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs	102
96	Maslow's Needs and You	103
97	A Goal Chart	104
98	High and Low Self-Esteem	105
99	Improving Your Self-Esteem	106
100	Peer Pressure and You	107
101	Learning Assertiveness	108
102	More on Assertiveness	109
103	Dealing with Difficult People	110
104	Conflict Outcomes	111
105	The Steps in Decision Making	112
106	Good Leader, Weak Leader (Part 1)	113
106a	Good Leader, Weak Leader (Part 2)	114
107	Wawa Island: A Team-Building Activity	115
108	Are You an Effective Communicator?	117
109	Name That Communication Blocker	118
110	Techniques for Saying No	119
111	Communication Scenarios	120
112	What Are They Really Saying?	121
113	A Paired Listening Exercise: Teacher Page	122
113a	A Paired Listening Exercise: Student Page, Script	123
113b	A Paired Listening Exercise: Student Page, Script B	124
114	Help Fatima Manage Her Time	125
115	Help Fatima Manage Her Time (Part 2)	126
116	Managing Your Time)	127
117	Managing Your Time (Part 2)	128
118	What Do You Do?	129
119	Fatima's Errands: A Time Management Activity	130
120	Types of Violence	131
121	Is Your School Violent?	132
122	Top 10 Pieces of Advice to Live By	133
123	Advice in Code	134
Section 5	Stress
124	Are You Vulnerable to Stress?	136
125	The Life Change Index	137
126	What Is Their Life Change Index?	138
127	Good Stress versus Bad Stress	139
128	Top 10 Sources of Stress	140
129	Stress in Various Aspects of Your Life	141
130	Three Generations of Stress	142
131	Long-Term Stress versus Short-Term Stress	143
132	ZZZzzz: Sleep Patterns	144
133	Sources-of-Stress Game	145
134	The Four Stages of Stress	146
135	Fight or Flight	147
136	Those Stressful Reactions	148
137	Reacting to Stressful Situations	149
138	Relaxation Bingo	150
139	Getting Physical	151
140	Support Systems	152
141	How Can You Help Your Stressed Friend?	153
142	A Suicide Awareness Quiz	154
143	Dealing with a Grieving Friend	155
144	Thoughts on Death and Dying	156
145	The Five Stages of Grief	157
146	Which Stage of Grief (in Dying Patients)?	158
Section 6	Food and Food-Related Issues
147	Food Associations	160
148	A Healthy-Eating Report Card	161
149	An Eating-Habits Survey	162
150	Favorite Food	163
151	A Food Pyramid Puzzle	164
152	Factors Affecting Your Food Choices	165
153	"Weight" and See	166
154	A Day in the Life of Your Stomach	167
155	Calorie Calculations	168
156	What to Know About H[subscript 2]O	169
157	Let's Learn About Vitamins	170
158	Cholesterol: Fact or Fiction	171
159	Protein Fill-in-the-Blanks	172
160	All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fiber	173
161	Fat Habits and You	174
162	Fat Classification	175
163	Fat Reduction	176
164	Crazy About Carbohydrates	177
165	Our Addiction to Additives	178
166	Food Categories	179
167	Just Because It's a Salad Doesn't Mean It's Healthy	180
168	Can You Help These Eaters?	181
169	An Eating Disorder True-False Quiz	182
170	Name That Disorder	183
171	Signs of an Eating Disorder	184
172	The Dos and Don'ts of Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder	185
173	The Food-Vocabulary Word Game	186
Section 7	Your Body and Body Image
174	What Is Your Body Type?	188
175	Calculate Your BMI	189
176	Body Image and You	190
176a	Body Image and You: Questions	191
177	Body Image and the Sexes	192
178	Cosmetic Plastic Surgery	193
179	Body-Parts Connections	194
180	Body-Parts Vocabulary	195
181	Muscle Word Search	196
182	Right Muscle, Right Exercise	197
183	The Human Skeleton Crossword	198
184	Female Reproductive System Vocabulary	199
185	Male Reproductive System Vocabulary	200
186	The Respiratory System Matching Exercise	201
187	The Digestion Puzzle	202
188	The Sun and Your Skin	203
189	Genetics and Your Health	204
190	Dr. Doctor's Magic Square	205
191	What Makes You Ill?	206
192	Five Diseases and Conditions That May Affect Teens	207
193	Basic First-Aid Crossword	208
194	Diagnose the Emergency	209
195	Preventing Cardiovascular Disease	210
196	A Fitness Survey	211
197	Components of Fitness	212
198	Anaerobic Energy, Aerobic Energy, and DOM	213
199	Keeping Fit Without Doing Aerobics	214
Section 8	Self-Esteem and Knowing Yourself
200	What's in a Name?	216
201	I Am	217
202	Graffiti You	218
203	The YOU Report Card	219
204	What You Like to Do	220
205	You Are Where You Live	221
206	What Would They Say About You?	222
207	Backing It Up with Examples	223
208	How Have These Outside Factors Shaped You?	224
209	Personality and You	225
210	Personality and Physical, Mental, and Social Health	226
211	What's Your Personality?	227
212	A, B, C, D Personality Types	228
213	Birth Order and Personality	229
214	Handwriting and Your Personality	230
215	Astrological Signs and Your Personality	231
216	What Do You Value?	232
217	What Are Your Values ...?	233
218	A Values Auction	234
219	Weaknesses	235
220	A Few of Your Favorite Things	236
221	Using Your Five Senses	237
222	Highs/Lows and You	238
223	A Room with a Clue	239
224	Cartoons, Colors, and Cars	240
225	If ...	241
	Answer Key	243
	Bibliography	261

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