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Health Curriculum
Section 2
6th Grade
- Adolescence Changes
- Identify and discuss each component of the Health Triangle
- Physical Health
- Social Health
- Emotional/Mental Health
- Explain the physical, social, and emotional changes common to adolescents
- Describe changes within a family during child development
- Discuss the importance of practicing good health habits
- Body Systems
- Digestive System
- Musculoskeletal System
- Cardiovascular System
- Healthy Practices
- Physical Fitness Concepts
- Dietary Needs
- Keeping a Food Journal
- Nutrition/Snacking
- Growth and Development
- Benefits of exercise, healthy weight, and calories
- Nutritional Value of Foods
- Hygiene: skin, eyes, hair, and teeth
- Social Changes
- Identify healthy friendships and other relationships
- Identify personal behaviors that contribute to building a positive school climate
- Puberty
- Define puberty and adolescents
- Describe the major organs, functions, and growth patterns of the female reproductive system during puberty
- Describe the major organs, functions and grown patterns of the male reproductive system during puberty
7th Grade
- Healthy Practices
- Nutrition and Nutrients
- How Nutrition impacts:
- Growth and Development
- Genetics
- School Climate
- Positive Relationships
- Peer Pressure
- Food Choices, Dietary Guidelines, Food Labels (for nutritional purposes)
- My Plate Food Guidance System
- Body Systems
- Components of Fitness
- Physical Fitness Concepts
- Body Systems and how they relate to Fitness
- Decision Making/Goal Setting Skills
- Identify the importance of decision making as an everyday, necessary process
- Identify ethics, goals, and reliable resources as components of the decision-making process
- Predict social situations that may require the use of decision-making skills
- Implement the decision-making process to arrive at healthy decisions that affect you and others in various aspects of life
- Compare and contrast situations that require support from trusted adults or health professionals
- Relationships
- Define dating violence and its warning signs
- Identify unhealthy adolescent relationships, including dating relationships
- Identify strategies to end unhealthy relationships
- Puberty and Reproduction
- Describe the influence of hormones, nutrition, environment, and heredity on the physical, social, and emotional changes that occur during puberty
- Explain the importance of practicing routine healthcare procedures such as self-examinations, testicular examinations, and breast examinations
- Evaluate emerging methods to diagnose and treat diseases and health conditions that are common in young adults in the U.S., and other countries including: hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, HPV and testicular cancer
- Describe the process of human reproduction
- Explain the importance of prenatal care on the developing fetus
- Describe the three stages of labor and delivery
8th Grade
- Healthy Practices
- 6 Types of Nutrients
- Nutrition and the Body in Development
- Food Borne Illness and Food Contamination
- Fast Food Influences and its impact on Health
- Food Labels and Product information
- Weight management, Calories, and the role of calories
- Eating Disorders (signs and symptoms, dangers, and treatment)
- Reproduction
- Describe the process of reproduction, pregnancy, and birth in relation to a mature adult experience
- Compare and contrast a mature adult pregnancy with that of a teen pregnancy
- Determine effective strategies and resources to assist with parenting
- Discuss the connection of prenatal care with the prevention of complications that may occur during pregnancy and childbirth
- Decision Making for Managing Personal Health
- Identify challenges of adolescent parenting
- Predict short and long term impacts of teen pregnancy
- Describe a variety of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, and the symptoms and treatments associated with each
- Compare and contrast HIV/AIDS with other common STI's (Sexually Transmitted Infections) for their differences in symptoms and effects on the body
- Identify strategies to maintain abstinence as an effective lifestyle choice
- Differentiate between affection, love, commitment, and sexual attraction
- Compare and Contrast methods of contraception used by adolescence and factors that may influence their use
- Analyze factors that support or hinder the achievement of personal health goals during different life stages
- Dating violence and prevention in addition to its warning signs