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LOWER DIVISION HEALTH
 GRADE 9
 (1 Semester)

Course Syllabus

 

COURSE OVERVIEW:
 Health Education is a three-dimensional program emphasizing physical, social, and mental wellness. This course provides students with opportunities and strategies to assess their own health and make plans to maintain and/or improve it in the future. The processes to be learned and used are: defining problems, gathering information, identifying options/alternatives, evaluating consequences, and acting upon solutions.

 
UNITS OF INSTRUCTION:
UNIT I -   Mental Health
UNIT II  -  Nutrition
 UNIT III  - Substances
UNIT IV  - Human Growth and Development
 

STUDENT OUTCOMES:
  1. Advance the understanding of the relationships between lifestyle choices and health. (22.A)
  2. Develop strategies for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences, and preventing conflict. (24.A)
  3. Identify and describe the structures and functions of the systems of the human body while analyzing how they interrelate; how these interrelationships affect health. (23.A)
  4. Evaluate factors that influence health among individuals, groups, and communities. (22.B)
  5. Explain how lifestyle choices contribute to both immediate and long-term effects on the body. (23.B, 23.C)
  6. Expose students to effective strategies for changing behaviors in various health-related areas such as diet, exercise, safety habits, and stress management. (24.B, 24.C)
  7. Use and encourage personal assessment as the first step in making lifelong changes and/or adaptations. (24.B, 24.C)
  8. Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual health. (24.B)
  9. Formulate individual health goals and explain how decision-making affects the achievement of these goals. (24B, 24.C)

 
MAJOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ACHIEVE OUTCOMES:

  1. Assess personal health using a variety of personal inventories that will include specific content based packets for each area of study. Students will then use the data collected to make plans to maintain and/or improve their own health.

  2. Create a personal diet analysis portfolio that will include data collection, analysis of data, and visual/written representation of information.

  3. Complete all components of semester project, family health history, or complete alternative project.

  4. Students will engage/participate in a law enactment simulation conveying information about different issues dealing with substances.

  5. Exhibit mastery of knowledge of content through unit of instruction, exams, quizzes, and a comprehensive final exam which will include both an essay and a cognitive component.

 
ADOPTED TEXT OR PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED: 

  1. Pruitt, B.E., Kathy Crumpler and Deborah Prothrow-Stith. Health: Skills for Wellness. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001.

  2. Coolien Challenge - software

  3. Body Connections - software

  4. Dine Healthy - software

  5. A.I.D.S. Interactive - software
Rev. (04/2005)

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