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HealthSmart High School: Nutrition & Physical Activity is part of ETR's comprehensive K-12 health education program that focuses on the essential concepts and skills students need to know and practice to adopt healthy behaviors. HealthSmart meets the National Health Education Standards and aligns to the CDC's Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). HealthSmart focuses on the key areas of risk that confront children and youth today as identified by the CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). The program also draws on the cultural strengths of students and their families to support healthy behaviors and establish healthy social norms and expectations. HealthSmart High School: Nutrition & Physical Activity lessons and activities are tailored to the developmental capabilites of high school students students. This unit offers sixteen 60- to-90-minute lessons covering the following topics: Nutrition & Health; Guidelines for Healthy Eating; What's on MyPlate?; Reading Food Labels; Eating Healthy at Fast-Food Restaurants; Physical Activity & Health; Guidelines for Physical Activity; Setting Healthy Eating & Physical Activity Goals; Tracking My Progress; Staying Safe During Physical Activity; Finding Accurate Information; Analyzing Influences on Eating & Physical Activity; Influences on Body Image; Managing Weight in Healthy Ways; Disordered Eating & Compulsive Exercising; Food Safety at Home & Work. The program includes a Teacher Guide (253 pages); a classroom set of 30 Student Workbooks; and a CD with PowerPoint and Masters. When you purchase HealthSmart you also have access to the HealthSmart Teacher Support Website that features a wealth of free digital resources, including a Lesson Planning Tool that gives you the power to quickly customize a HealthSmart lesson plan.