About HealthSmart
HealthSmart is a skills-based K–12 health education program designed to meet your virtual and classroom needs.
HealthSmart is a flexible and customizable health education curriculum, comprised of over 400 lessons, allowing school districts the autonomy for local decision making to ensure all lessons align to state and local policies. Schools can select their lesson plans and opt out of any specific content that does not meet the needs of their community.
Lessons are easy to use, with clear, concise teaching steps focused on the essential concepts and skills that will enable students to develop, practice and support specific healthy behaviors. Activities are developmentally appropriate, challenge students in a variety of ways, and accommodate a range of learning styles. Schools can teach the comprehensive program or select only the grades and/or subjects they need.
Benefits of HealthSmart:
- Meets the National Health Education Standards.
- Focuses on the primary areas of risk for children and adolescents identified and monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Reflects the characteristics of an effective health education curriculum defined by the CDC.
- Incorporates key knowledge and skill expectations detailed in the CDC's Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) for each grade level.
- Supports social and emotional learning (SEL).
The ultimate goal of the HealthSmart program is to promote the healthy growth and development of youth and give them the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long healthy behaviors.
HealthSmart is available in both print and digital editions.
