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Navigating Adult Healthcare

Twelfth graders learn to navigate the healthcare system as adults — knowing what a primary care doctor, dentist, pharmacy, urgent care, and health insurance are for — so they can take charge of their own health.

Grade 12Consumer Health55 minutes1 class periodSHAPE / Skills-BasedExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Navigate healthcare.
  • ✓Know each resource.
  • ✓Match resources to purposes.
  • ✓Manage your health.
Essential Question

As an adult, YOU manage your own healthcare — booking appointments, filling prescriptions, using insurance. Who and what do you turn to for each need?

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Interactive Task
Match It · Interactive

Match the Healthcare Resource

Project this and match each healthcare resource to its purpose — tap a resource, then tap its purpose.

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Resource
What It’s For
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The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

55 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — You’re in Charge

6 min

As an adult, YOU manage your healthcare — who do you turn to for each need?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask who they’d call for a checkup.
  • Ask about insurance.
  • Get ready.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Wonder.
  • Get ready.
2

Learn — Adult Healthcare

13 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Match the Healthcare Resource.
  • Match each one.
  • Discuss them.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Match.
  • Discuss.
  • Explain.
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Practice — Practice

15 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Decide where to go for a scenario.
  • Explain insurance basics.
  • Find a real clinic.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Decide.
  • Explain.
  • Find it.
4

Apply — Apply

13 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Walk through booking a checkup.
  • Know your insurance card.
  • Explain it.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Book it.
  • Know it.
  • Explain.
5

Cool-Down — Cool-Down

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a healthcare resource.
  • Say what it’s for.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to SHAPE America National Health Education & Physical Education Standards.

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HE.3

Access valid health services.

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HE.1

Comprehend healthcare concepts.

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HE.5

Use decision-making for health.

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HE.8

Advocate for personal health.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Resource + purpose cards.
  • Sentence frame: “For ___, I go to ___.”
  • Use real examples.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with doctor and dentist.
  • Match one pair at a time.
  • Use examples.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Explain how insurance works.
  • Find in-network providers.
  • Compare urgent care and ER.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Projector / board
  • 🩺Resource cards
  • 💻Match the Healthcare Resource
  • 📋A sample insurance card
  • ✏️Pens
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

healthcareservices that keep you healthyprimary care doctoryour main doctordentista teeth and gum doctorpharmacywhere you get medicineurgent carenon-emergency quick carehealth insurancehelps cover medical costsappointmenta scheduled visitprescriptiona doctor’s medicine order
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Who do you see for a routine checkup?
Your primary care doctor.
QUESTION 2
Where do you fill a prescription?
The pharmacy.
QUESTION 3
What does health insurance do?
Helps cover the cost of medical care.

Cool-Down: take charge.

Have students explain where they’d go for a checkup, a toothache, and a prescription. A printable healthcare sheet is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: appointment, dentist, health insurance, healthcare, pharmacy, prescription, primary care doctor, urgent care
  1. helps cover medical costs
  2. a doctor’s medicine order
  3. where you get medicine
  4. a teeth and gum doctor
  5. services that keep you healthy
  6. non-emergency quick care
  7. a scheduled visit
  8. your main doctor

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Who do you see for a routine checkup?
  2. Where do you fill a prescription?
  3. What does health insurance do?
Answer key — Part A: 1) health insurance · 2) prescription · 3) pharmacy · 4) dentist · 5) healthcare · 6) urgent care · 7) appointment · 8) primary care doctor
Part B: 1) Your primary care doctor. 2) The pharmacy. 3) Helps cover the cost of medical care.