Essential Health Skills for Middle School is a skills-based textbook program that provides students with the most up-to-date, reliable health education information. It emphasizes current health and wellness issues and contains an abundance of classroom-tested activities to help students develop the skills they need to make good choices regarding their health and well-being now and throughout their lives. Covering topics ranging from substance use and abuse to nutrition to mental and social health, Essential Health Skills for Middle School aligns with the National Health Education Standards.