WELLNESS
GOALS
1. Students will demonstrate the
ability to uses goal setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
2. Students will analyze the influence
of culture, media, technology, and others on health.
3. Students will comprehend concepts
related to health promotion and disease prevention.
4. Students will demonstrate the
ability to access valid health information and health-promoting products and
services.
5. Students will demonstrate the
ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
6. Students will demonstrate the
ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
7. Students will demonstrate the
ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
SYLLABUS
Unit 1 You and Your Health
Chapter 1 Your Health Wellness
Lesson
1-What is Health
Lesson2-Influences
on Your Health
Lesson3-Taking
Charge of Your Health
Chapter
2-Making Healthful Choices
Lesson
1-Building Health Skills
Lesson
2-Making Decisions and Setting Goals
Chapter 3-Physical Fitness and Your Health
Lesson 1-Physical Fitness and You
Lesson 2-Exercise and Fitness
Lesson3-Planning a Fitness Program
Chapter
4-Physical Activity for Life
Lesson 1-Physical Activity and Skills-Related
Fitness
Lesson 2-Physical Activity and Total Health
Lesson 3-Avoiding Injuries
Chapter 5 Nutrition and Your Health
Lesson 1- Food in Your Life
Lesson 2- Nutrients: Carbohydrates, Proteins,
and Fats
Lesson 3- Nutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, and
Water
Lesson 4- Guidelines for a Healthful Eating
Style
Lesson 5- Being a Smart Food Consumer
Video:
Supersize Me
Chapter 6- Food and Your Health
Lesson 1-Managing Your
Weight
Lesson 2-Fad Diets and Eating Disorders
Lesson 3-Nutrition for Individual Needs
Lesson 4-Protecting Yourself from Food
Problems
Video: Dying to Be Thin
Anorexia and Bulimia
Food Borne Illnesses
Chapter 7-Personal Health
Lesson 1-Healthy Skin, Hair and Nails
Lesson 2-Healthy Teeth and Mouth
Lesson 3-Healthy Eyes
Lesson 4-Healthy Ears
Unit 5 Body Systems
Chapter 15 Integumentary Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Lesson
1-Integumentary System
Lesson 2-
Skeletal System
Lesson
3-Muscular System
Chapter 16 Your Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Lesson
1-The Nervous System
Lesson
2-Care and Problems of the Nervous System
Lesson 3-
The endocrine System
Unit 7 Medicines and Drugs
Chapter 23
Understanding Medicines
Lesson
1-The Role of Medicines
Lesson 2-
Using Medicines Wisely
Chapter 24
Tobacco
Lesson 1-
Tobacco Use
Lesson
2-What Tobacco Does to the Body
Lesson
3-Choosing to Be Tobacco Free
Video:
Secondhand Smoke
Teens, Drugs, and Peer Pressure
Chapter 25
Alcohol
Lesson
1-Alcohol Use
Lesson 2-
What Alcohol Does to the Body
Lesson
3-Alcohol and Society
Video:
DUI- Dead In 5 Seconds
Suicide: Dead is Forever
Don’t Kill Yourself
Chapter 26
Illegal Drugs
Lesson
1-Drug Use
Lesson
2-Psychoactive Drugs
Lesson 3
Steroids and Other Dangerous Drugs
Lesson
4-Strategies for Preventing Drug Abuse
Video: 15 and Getting Straight
The Meth
Epidemic
What’s Wrong with
Inhalants?
Drugs and Alcohol-Parts 1
& 2
GRADING PROCEDURES
20% Daily Homework
20% Class Participation
20% Quizzes
40% Tests