What is Health?

• Physical , Emotional, Mental, Social health
• Wellness in relation to the four parts of health
• Influences on your health
• Developing healthy habits

 
Responsible Decision Making

• Good decisions
• Types of consequences
• Influences on decisions
• Six steps of responsible decision making
• Refusal skills

 
Emotional/Mental Health (Self-Esteem)

• Characteristics of people with high and low self-esteem
• Outside influences and media influences on self-esteem
• Self-concept and how it develops
• Keys to a healthy self-esteem
• Seven ways to a healthy self esteem

Nutrition

• How your body uses food
• Six classes of nutrients
• Classify foods into appropriate food groups
• Create a realistic menu for a day using appropriate daily requirements
• Read a food label

 
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco

• Difference between legal and illegal drugs
• Reading medicine labels and using medicines safely
• Effects and dangers of Marijuana
• Chemicals in tobacco products
• The effects of alcohol on the body and brain
• Peer pressure involving drugs and alcohol
• Practice responsible decision making and refusal skill in situations involving alcohol, tobacco and drugs

 
Human Growth and Development

• Physical and emotional changes in puberty
• Practicing good hygiene
• Reproductive systems
• Healthy relationships
• Use 6 steps of responsible decision making to maintain healthy relationships
• Use refusal skill to avoid risky situations

What is Health?

• Physical, Emotional, Mental, Social health
• Wellness in relation to the four parts of health
• Influences on your health
• Developing healthy habits
• Nine life skills

 
Responsible Decision Making

• Good decisions
• Types of consequences
• Influences on decisions
• Six steps of responsible decision making
• Refusal skills
• Types of goals
• Steps to setting and reaching goals

 
Emotional/Mental Health (Conflict/Stress)

• Types of conflict
• Managing conflict
• What is anger and how to manage it
• Healthy and unhealthy ways to express anger
• Different types of stress
• Causes of stress
• Healthy ways to manage your stress

 
Nutrition

• How your body uses food
• Functions of the six classes of nutrients
• Classify foods into appropriate food groups and explore why all foods in food groups are not created equal
• Create a realistic menu for a week using appropriate daily requirements
• Read a food label and determine if the food is healthy

 
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco

• Name examples of legal and illegal drugs
• Name examples of OTC and prescription drugs
• Marijuana, a gateway drug
• Chemicals in tobacco products and effects on the body
• Long- term effects of alcohol
• Effects and dangers of inhalants
• Types of pressure
• Practice responsible decision making and refusal skills to avoid situations involving tobacco, drugs and alcohol

 
Human Growth and Development

• Physical and emotional changes in puberty
• Practicing good hygiene
• Reproductive systems
• Healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
• Use 6 steps of responsible decision making to determine healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
• Practice using refusal skills in relationships

Responsible Decision Making

• Six steps of responsible decision making
• Setting healthy goals
• Refusal skills

 
Nutrition

• Six classes of nutrients
• Building healthy eating habits
• Good vs. bad fats
• Read food labels and determine high amounts of fat, sugar, salt and offer alternative choices
• Identify allergens in foods

 
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco

• Chemicals in tobacco products
• Physical effects of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide
• Cost analysis of smoking cigarettes
• Effects of alcohol on the body
• Peer pressure and alcohol
• Media influences and alcohol
• Practice responsible decision making skills and refusal skills to avoid situations with alcohol
• Classes of drugs, dangers and effects
• Practice responsible decision making and refusal skills to avoid situations with drugs

 
Human Growth and Development

• Building relationships
• Understand emotional and social connections
• Personal responsibility
• The importance of body language
• Tolerance for others
• Healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
• Resolving unhealthy relationships
• Avoiding risky situations by using responsible decision making and refusal skills

 
CPR/AED

• Identify the reasons CPR and AED are needed
• Learn and practice correct procedure for CPR
• Learn how to use an AED

Responsible Decision Making

• Six steps of responsible decision making
• Building character
• Communication skills
• Refusal skills

 
Nutrition

• Six classes of nutrients
• Health conditions related to too much sugar, salt, or bad fats in diet
• Investigate sugar content and hidden sugars in foods/food labels
• Study food labels and determine if the food contributes to common health conditions
• Identify allergens in foods

 
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco

• Cigarettes vs. E-Cigarettes
• Laws in regard to purchase and possession of tobacco products
• Effects of first, second, and third hand smoke
• Addiction caused by nicotine
• Alcohol and the brain
• Alcohol in the blood (BAC)
• Peer and social pressure
• Apply responsible decision making and refusal skills to situations involving alcohol
• Classes of drugs and their effects and dangers
• Medical marijuana vs. recreational
• The role of dopamine plays on addiction
• Tolerance and withdrawal
• Drugged driving
• Understanding the opiate epidemic
• Apply responsible responsible decision making and refusal skills to situations involving drugs

 
Human Growth and Development

• Responsible peer relationships
• Dating safe people
• Sexual harassment
• Respecting others
• Abstinence
• Resisting sexual pressure
• Verbal, physical and sexual abuse
• Know where to seek help for abuse
• Consequences of sexual activity(emotional, social and physical)
• Teen pregnancy
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Avoiding risky situations

 
CPR/AED

• Identify the reasons CPR and AED are needed
• Learn/review correct procedure for CPR
• Learn how to use an AED