Health Education

Unit 1

• Health choices and consequences of choices
• Benefits of health (including healthy eating, exercise, stress-management, adequate sleep, social and emotional health, disease prevention, and avoidance of accidents and dangers)
• Influences of peers, media, family, and cultural pressure on physical, emotional, and social health
• Major body systems and their functions
• Nutrients and benefits of nutrients to the body
• Prevention and transmission of disease by individual behaviors
• Communicable and noncommunicable diseases

Unit 2

• Ways body defends itself against germs
• Skills to identify, avoid, and cope with potentially dangerous situations
• Practices for responding to emergencies
• Identify safe behaviors around strangers
• Use, abuse, and effects of medications, tobacco, alcohol, and other substances
• Ways to avoid use of illegal drugs and other harmful substances
• Positive and negative characteristics of social groups gangs, clubs, cliques

Unit 3

• Reporting and getting help in unsafe situations
• Reasons and ways to avoid violence, gangs, and weapons
• Development of self-confidence and self-esteem
• Respect and consideration for all individuals
• Healthy ways of getting attention
• Healthy ways of responding to disrespectful behavior
• Self-control and appropriate ways to express emotions

Unit 4

• 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
• Skills for meeting people, making friends, and being a good friend
• Getting personal support from family
• How and where to get help in making health decisions
• Fire and arson prevention and safety
• Highway safety and traffic regulations