Health Education
Unit 1
- Gaining, analyzing, and applying health information
- Knowledge about and use of available health services
- Health choices and long-term consequences of choices
- Benefits of, practices for, and personal responsibility for health
- Personal health profile and plan
- Interrelationships of physical, mental, and social health
- Impacts of social pressures on physical, emotional, and social health
- Marketing and advertising effects on health behavior
- Structure, functions, and interdependence of major body systems
Unit 2
- Causes and effects of poor body image
- Eating disorders and their prevention and treatment
- Changes in anatomy during puberty
- Role of hormones in growth, development, and personal health
- Reproductive processes; healthy development of fetus
- Consequences of sexual activity
- Strategies to resist pressures to become sexually active
- Characteristics of healthy relationships and dating behaviors
- Lifelong strategies for identifying and preventing depression and anxiety
Unit 3
- Myths and facts related to disease transmission and prevention
- Laws relating to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other controlled substances
- Treatment options for drug and other addictions
- Basic safety rules for daily and recreational activities
- Understanding of first-aid procedures and emergency response
- Use, abuse, and effects of medications, tobacco, alcohol, and other controlled substances
- Relationship between tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs and such unsafe situations as date rape, sexually-transmitted disease, and drinking and driving
- Preventing the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs
- Prevention of and response to deliberate and accidental injuries
Unit 4
- Reasons and ways to avoid violence, gangs, weapons, and drugs
- Skills to identify, avoid, report, and cope with potentially dangerous situations
- Positive and negative characteristics of social groups, gangs, clubs, cliques
- Development of self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-control
- Appropriate ways to express emotions
- Positive social interactions with peers, in home, and in the community
- Bullying, alternative behaviors to bullying, and appropriate responses to bullying
- Strategies for resolving conflicts with peers and others
- Getting personal support from family