Helping Students Thrive Inside and Outside the Classroom.
Middle School (6-8)
The Michigan Model for Health™ (MMH) Grades 6–8 curriculum empowers students to build positive lifestyle habits through hands-on skill development, interactive demonstrations, and guided practice. Educators are equipped with a comprehensive, evidence-based program that addresses critical health topics relevant to today’s middle school students. By promoting informed decision-making and healthy behavior patterns, the curriculum supports academic success and lifelong well-being.
Educator Curriculum Content
Fully-scripted lesson plans
Engaging Google Slides for each lesson
Lesson objectives aligned to National & State standards
Interactive instructional tools
Customizable Google student worksheets/assessments
Support materials (posters, activity cards, etc.)
Explore MMH Subjects
The MMH program grades 6-8 curriculum is designed for teachers and educators to implement as a component of the core school curriculum, with each of the lessons lasting approximately 45 minutes in length.
Social & Emotional Health
& Safety
Students learn the foundational health skills on:
Self-awareness and self-respect
Stress and anger management
Communicating (listening, empathy, I-statements, and refusal)
Decision-making, problem-solving and conflict resolution
Violence prevention, including bullying
Healthy and unhealthy relationships
Getting and giving help
Alcohol & Other Drugs
Students learn health skills on:
Internal and external influences on teenage drug use
Impacts of drug use on the user and others (alcohol, over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs including opioids, marijuana, sports supplements, and steroids)
Protecting one-self and influencing others to be drug free (I-statements, refusal and decision making)
Identifying unsafe situations and getting and giving help
Advocating for changes to encourage staying drug free
Nutrition & Physical
Activity
Students learn health skills on:
Benefits of eating healthy foods and daily physical activity
Guidelines to set goals for a healthy diet and physical activity
Locating and assessing resources on nutrition and physical activity
Analyzing restaurant menu items, including fast food
Persuasive skills to promote eating healthy foods and being physically active
Refusal skills to choose foods and activities that will yield health benefits
Tobacco & Vaping
Students learn health skills on:
Impacts of tobacco use, vaping and second-hand smoke exposure
What influences a person to use or refrain from using tobacco and vaping
Protecting oneself from unhealthy situations related to tobacco and vaping
Helping others stay tobacco and vaping free
Accessing reliable information and resources
HIV & Other STIs
Students learn health skills on:
Facts about sexually transmitted infections and ways to avoid and prevent them
Identifying behaviors that do or do not transmit infections
Legal, financial, health, social, and emotional consequences of sexual activity
Communicating with others about HIV & Other STI testing
Locating and assessing reliable sources of information
CASEL Evidence-based Program
The Michigan Model for HealthTM middle school curriculum is a CASEL Promising Program. The evaluation supported program effectiveness and found that compared to students in the comparison group students who participated in the program reported lower frequencies of using drugs and alcohol at post-test.
Hands-On Classroom Kits
Instructional, hands-on classroom kits are available to support classroom instruction of health lessons which include attractive full-color laminated posters and activity card sets. Middle school products can be purchased in a complete kit or individually.
The middle school curriculum can be purchased by grade level or within digital curriculum bundles. District pricing discounts may be available. Contact us to request a trial, buy, or learn more about the MMH curriculum.
