7th Grade - Wellness
The Wellness curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skill foundation necessary to make healthful choices. This curriculum will empower students with the responsibility for his or her own health and well being. The class is based on the belief that developing a balance between the physical, social and mental/emotional components of health is the key to healthy living.
Units Explored
- Physical Health
- Fitness education
- Nutrition education
- Drugs/alcohol
- Human sexuality
- Social Health
- Exploring tolerance
- Bullying/cyber bullying
- Friendship/popularity
- Conflict resolution
- Communication skills/teamwork
- Problem solving
- Harassment
- Mental/Emotional Health
- Depression/suicide
- Anger manaagement
- Stress management
- Current Health Events and Critical Health Issues
- Articles
- ex. Choking game
6th Grade -Health Curriculum
The health curriculum is designed to provide the student with an understanding of important health issues and the knowledge necessary to make healthy choices. The content for the 6th grade health curriculum is:
Wellness is a Lifestyle You Choose:
Risk behaviors
Healthful behaviors
Decision making skills
Refusal skills
Getting to Know Your Body:
The respiratory system
The circulatory system
Choices you make that affect these systems
Alcohol and Tobacco Project:
A multi-topic, group health project
10 day, self-directed, cooperative learning unit
Utilizing research, construction and creative thinking skills
Growing Up Sexually:
Concepts and changes associated with puberty
Male anatomy
Female anatomy
Pregnancy and childbirth
Sex and Its Connection to Disease:
What is a communicable disease?
What are STD's, AIDS and HIV?