The class will understand how setting goals, developing a good
self-image and learning good communications skills will help keep
them emotionally and physically healthy.
Supporting Ideas:
Students will gain an understanding of what adolescence means
and how it will affect them both physically and emotionally.
Students learn how possessing strong values, standards and
communication skills can keep them from making bad life choices
which could have negative effects on their health.
Students will learn about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases; they will learn that the only guaranteed way to avoid
these diseases or pregnancy is to save sex for marriage.
Health Standard:
Standard 1: Students will understand health promotion and disease
prevention concepts and practices.
Indicator 2: Students will analyze the impact of emotional,
social, and physical health on various interrelated body parts.
Benchmark C: Examine ways to avoid, minimize, or cope
with adolescent health problems.
Standard 1: Students will understand health promotion and disease
prevention concepts and practices
Indicator 3: Students will analyze how medical research,
government regulations, and public health policies influence
health promotion and disease prevention.
Benchmark C:
Examine health practices which may cause and/or spread/prevent
diseases.
Standard 3: Students will understand the benefits of practicing
health-enhancing behaviors which reduce health risks.
Indicator 1: Students will evaluate health-enhancing behaviors
which promote wellness.
Benchmark A: Distinguish short and long term consequences
of risky and harmful behaviors.
Standard 3: Students will understand the benefits of practicing
health-enhancing behaviors which reduce health risks.
Indicator 3: Students will evaluate the role of personal
responsibility in health-related decisions.
Benchmark A: Describe how personal choices can impact
long range health.
Benchmark B: Demonstrate individual responsibility in
health-related decisions/choices.
