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Health Education 6th–8th (2511) | |||
| Grade Range: | |
| 6–8 | |
| Prerequisites: | |
| None | |
| Course duration: | |
| Six-, nine-, or 12-week course, or one-semester course; may be repeated for credit | |
| Course Description: | |
This course is oriented toward skill acquisition to help students build a healthy lifestyle. It is designed to provide information to influence students to develop positive, lifelong health behaviors. The sequential curriculum teaches students the information and skills they need to become health literate. At each grade level the following content areas are expanded on:
This level of instruction is intended to help students meet health education content standards 6–8.1 through 6–8.6. | |
| State Course Code(s): | |
| 9160 - Comprehensive Health Education | |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: | |
| Grade 6: Health and Wellness, Grade 6. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2006. Don’t Pick On Me!; Talking About Responsibility; Drugs, Your Friends, and You: An Update; Building Character; Talking About Responsibility; Healthy Me: Nutrition and Exercise; Real People: Talking About Marijuana and Other Drugs, Sunburst Media, 2006. Grade 7: Health and Wellness, Grade 7. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2006. Anger Management Skills; Building Good Relationships; Teenage Stress: It’s Manageable; Teens, Drugs, and Peer Pressure; Get a Goal! Get a Life!; Nutrition and Exercise: Teen Wellness; Respect!; Real People: Marijuana, the Burning Truth; Real People: Preventing Student Violence, Sunburst Media, 2006. Grade 8: Health and Wellness, Grade 8. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2006. “I Don’t Have a Problem”: The Path to Addiction; Real People: Smoking, The Burning Truth; Student Workshop: Gossiping, Taunting, Bullying: It’s All Harassment; Teen-Adult Conflict: Working It Out; Fantastic Food Pyramid; “I’m All That!”: Building Self-Esteem; Student Workshop: Dating, Violence and Abuse; The Fourth “R”: Responsibility, Sunburst Media, 2006. | |