In addition to advice about eating better, moving more, and changing other habits for optimal health, this issue gives your students a peek into the life-changing world of mentoring. It's hard to find a downside of a relationship that improves grades, diminishes the chances of adopting negative behaviors, and builds self-esteem. And that's just for the mentees! Teens who mentor younger kids get a boost from helping someone else. Your students can start 2007 off on the right foot by investigating the benefits of being a mentor or mentee.

Remember that as the year stretches on, you can always turn to Current Health 2 for material to help you teach. Looking for a lesson plan on fitness? Test out our Get Up and Go! exercise program; it's never too late to start. Need a take-home nutrition assignment? Have students create healthy lunch recipes for our second annual Recipalooza contest; winners will receive cash prizes and their recipes will be featured on our Web site. Click here for an entry form; the deadline is March 16.

Sincerely,

Meredith Matthews

P.S. If you are a subscriber to the Human Sexuality Supplement to Current Health 2, here's a quiz you can use with the January edition, "Still a Killer." The questions and answers are on two separate handouts. Give students the quiz first, to establish their baseline of knowledge, and then have them read the article.