Karen E. McConnell, PhD, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, is a certified health education specialist (CHES) and has taught at the university level for more than 23 years in areas related to health and fitness education, curriculum and assessment, and exercise science. She has written or contributed to over a dozen book chapters and texts, including Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education, as well as the teacher resources for the fifth and sixth editions of Fitness for Life. She is a recipient of the Arthur Broten Young Scholar Award and has received the University Professional of the Year Award from the Washington Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance for contributions made to state standards in health and fitness. She enjoys running and participating in most outdoor activities. Terri D. Farrar, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the kinesiology baccalaureate program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She has taught health and fitness education at the middle school and high school levels for over 27 years and has taught health and fitness pedagogy at Pacific Lutheran University for 10 years. She coauthored the Health for Life and Health Opportunities Through Physical Education textbooks and teacher resources. She is a member of SHAPE America (Society of Health and Physical Educators) and of the Washington chapter of SHAPE America. She was SHAPE Washington's University Professor of the Year in 2019 and is the assessment chairperson for SHAPE Washington. She enjoys traveling, working out, and coaching. Charles B. ("Chuck") Corbin, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. He coauthored two health series for use in grades K through 8 and is the senior author of several award-winning elementary, middle school, high school, and college texts, including Fitness for Life: Elementary School, Fitness for Life: Middle School, and the sixth edition of Fitness for Life, all of which were winners of Texty Awards, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). He also authored the 17th edition of Concepts of Physical Fitness, winner of the TAA's McGuffey Award. His books are the most widely adopted public school and college texts in the area of fitness, health, and wellness. Dr. Corbin is internationally recognized as an expert in physical activity, health, and wellness promotion and youth physical fitness. He has presented keynote addresses at more than 40 state AHPERD conventions, made major addresses in more than 15 countries, and presented numerous named lectures. Among his many honors are the Gulick Award from SHAPE America (Society of Health and Physical Educators); the Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the National Jaycees; and the Hetherington Award from the National Academy of Kinesiology. He was named the Alliance Scholar by SHAPE America, selected as the Cureton Lecturer by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and named to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Hall of Fame. He served for more than 20 years as a member of the FitnessGram advisory board and was the first chair of the Science Board of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
Through Live Well: Middle School Health, students will discover fundamentals of health and wellness and learn how to apply these throughout their life span. The text will help students understand how to do the following: Develop skills for healthy living Prioritize healthy nutrition, physical activity, and stress management Avoid destructive habits Build healthy relationships Contribute to community and environmental health Skills Developed The content in Live Well: Middle School Health is aligned with the National Health Education Standards (NHES), state standards, and the CDC's Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool. The text will help students build an array of skills: Analyze the effect that family, peers, media, and technology have on their health and wellness Identify reliable sources of health information and become savvy consumers Sharpen interpersonal communication skills as they share health knowledge, debate controversial topics, manage interpersonal conflicts, and more Strengthen decision-making skills as they identify healthy solutions to problems posed In addition, students will learn to create behavior change goals, establish healthy living plans, advocate for healthy living at home and in their communities, and discern how health and technology intersect on various topics. Features and Benefits Live Well: Middle School Health offers students many features and benefits. The text provides skill-based learning applications to reinforce the health concepts and help students develop health literacy. Skill-building challenges, healthy living tips, career connections, and other recurring special elements supply opportunities to analyze, evaluate, and apply the health concepts and skills being taught. Case studies and other features allow students to engage with issues of diversity and inclusion across content areas. And vocabulary terms-available in English and Spanish to meet the needs of ELL and ESL students-help students test their understanding of the material. To assist students using the print book or ebook, the Live Well: Middle School Health Web Resource features easy access to material referenced in the text, including note-taking guides, vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, Skill-Building Challenge worksheets, and chapter reviews. Live Well: Middle School Health is also available as an interactive web text, which students can access from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. The student interactive web textbook contains the same content as the print book but uses interactive audio, video, worksheets, and other great activities to help students engage with the material and enhance learning. The interactive web textbook offers audio vocabulary and definitions in English and Spanish. Introductory videos at the beginning of each lesson help students assess their knowledge going in, while videos at the end of each lesson help students put what they've learned into context. (The interactive web text is available separately to schools that adopt the student textbook. Please contact the Human Kinetics K-12 sales department for details.) Note: A code for accessing the web resource is included with all new print books.