Healthy Behaviors Build Healthy Choices
Evidence-based health education curriculum helps students develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthy choices and support lifelong well-being.
The HLC digital curriculum now comes free with SPARK Early Childhood, K-2 PE, 3-5 PE, Middle School PE, and After School subscriptions!
Everything You Need to Teach with Confidence
Healthy Lifestyle Choices (HLC) is a flexible, evidence‑based health education curriculum that helps students build lifelong nutrition, wellness, and decision‑making skills through real‑world practice.
Standards-Aligned Lessons
Lessons aligned to National Health Education Standards (NHES) help students build skills through real‑world practice.
Digital + Printable Units
Units spanning nutrition, wellness, decision-making, and more — available to view and print through SPARK Digital.
Purposeful Planning Tools
Flexible yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning tools simplify planning and keep instruction on track.
Ready-to-Teach Resources
Everything you need to teach confidently, including activity cards, assessments, instructional guidance, and teacher support materials.
Extended Learning Connections
Family resources, reflection questions, and academic integrations connect healthy behaviors to classrooms, home, and beyond.
A Program for Every Age & Setting
From preschool through middle school and beyond, HLC delivers evidence-based health education for every learner.
Introduce healthy behaviors through literature and circle group activities.
- Small & large group activities
- Supports key developmental skills
- Perfect for preschool, after-school & summer
Five-step lessons build knowledge and skills to help students make healthier choices.
- Weekly, easy-to-implement lessons
- Builds nutrition, fitness & life skills
- Reinforces learning with booster activities
Team-based learning lets students weigh consequences and reach their own healthy conclusions.
- Connects learning to real-life challenges
- Develops critical thinking & decision-making skills
- Evaluates understanding with built-in assessments
Activities blend dramatic arts, music, arts & crafts, and games with health skills development.
- Encourages active learning
- Flexible activities for multi-age groups
- Perfect for after-school & camp settings
Independent evaluation: An independent evaluation of HLC's original elementary program found that children exposed to HLC have significantly higher knowledge than peers without exposure to HLC; further, this knowledge translates to behavior changes in school and at home.
Early Childhood Program
This program is designed to introduce healthy behaviors to young children. Most lessons are introduced through literature and circle group activities. Small and large activities are also offered to introduce social/emotional, cognitive and physical learning experiences. It can be used in a traditional preschool setting or with after-school or summer camp programs.
Free with SPARK Early Childhood subscriptions!
Sample Lesson Plans
Elementary Program
(Grades K–5)
This program provides youth with the knowledge and skills practice to make healthier choices. Implemented once per week over a 45-minute period, each lesson includes five easy steps and a lesson booster activity for key message reinforcement.
Free with SPARK K-2 PE & 3-5 PE subscriptions!
Sample Lesson Plans
Resources
Middle School Program
(Grades 6–8)
This program promotes positive health behaviors and guides students in becoming advocates for their own health. Lessons encourage students to personalize the information so it is relevant to their daily lives and has long-lasting effects on promoting healthy lifestyles.
Free with SPARK Middle School subscriptions!
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After School Program
(Ages 5–12)
With CAMP BOOST™, kids can engage in enrichment activities such as dramatic arts, music, arts & crafts and games while also learning important health skills. Because campers are typically multi-aged groups, Camp Boost™ offers developmentally appropriate activities in two age groups: 5-8 year olds and 9-12 year olds.
Free with SPARK After School subscriptions!
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Trusted by Educators
Teachers and administrators across the country share why SPARK makes a difference in their schools.
I've been using SPARK PE with my teachers for more than a decade. The lessons help get teachers on the same page within a district so that students are receiving the same competencies across schools. It offers common academic language and sound lesson structure and assessments aligned to national and state standards. It is a go-to resource when revising K-12 curriculum.
Judy LoBianco
Consultant, President/CEO · HPE SOLUTIONS LLC
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