Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers is committed to supporting librarians and educators as they integrate the database into their programs.

Lesson Plans

Teachers can use Teen Health & Wellness lesson plans to support their programs on health, science, physical education, and language arts. Integrate the database into your classroom and motivate students to learn. All entries are correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

• **NEW** Sexual Health: This comprehensive, five-day lesson plan covers puberty, the male and female reproductive systems, reproduction and pregnancy, and making smart sexual choices for students in grades 9 through 12.
  

• Birth Control/Contraception: Students can research a method of contraception to prepare and present an eight-slide PowerPoint on the topic.

• Body Systems: Students can research a body system and then create an oral presentation, written presentation, and Wiki on that system.

• Budgeting and Money Management: Students can create a sample monthly budget that includes their income, fixed costs, discretionary spending, and more.

• Driver Education: Students can research a topic related to driver education to reflect upon, and then write a paper summarizing the article and their personal reflections.

• Editing and Writing for Publication: By participating in our Personal Story Project, students can learn how to write and edit material for publication, based on specific submission requirements. They can then submit their essays to Teen Health & Wellness for publication on our site --plus a certificate of achievement and an award.

• Fad Diets: Students can research a fad diet along with principles of general nutrition to create a PowerPoint presentation with a minimum of ten slides.

• Health and Wellness: Students can research a health/wellness topic of your choice and then use their material to create a brochure for a doctor's office.
  

• Hotlines and Resources for Teens: Students can research hotlines and resources to support teens in crisis on a topic of their choosing and then create a poster to hang in the school library or hallway.

Case Studies

Case studies offer concrete examples and success stories of how librarians and educators have used Teen Health & Wellness to support teens both in the library and the classroom.

This case study showcases Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois.

Summary: Approximately 400 sophomore students in 14 Health Education classes at Naperville Central High School used the Teen Health & Wellness database throughout the second semester of the 2006-07 school year. In addition to meeting Illinois state learning standards, teachers used the database as a teacher resource, teaching aid, and student resource at both school and home for class assignments and personal wellness information. In a survey, 99% of students said information was easy to locate in the database, 95% said the material was helpful, and 89% said they would use Teen Health & Wellness again. Read the full case study.