Health Units
Health and Wellness
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Mental Health
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Drug Misuse and Abuse
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Human Sexuality
C.P.R Certification
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Understanding Nutrition
Task 1: Define health and wellness.
- Objectives:
- a. Define the meaning of health.
- b. Define the meaning of wellness.
- c. Describe health and wellness in terms of a continuum.
- d. Identify the characteristics of life with a high quality of physical, mental, and social health.
Task 2: Determine factors that affect health.
- Objectives:
- a. Define lifestyles.
- b. List lifestyle factors that influence one's wellness.
- c. Describe the relationship of exercise, diet, emotions, and health.
- d. Describe the possible results of poor choices in diet, sleep, exercise, relationships, health maintenance, and general hygiene.
- e. Apply the decision making process that promotes health.
- f. Set health goals.
Task 3: Analyze personal health risks.
- Objectives:
- a. Differentiate between healthful behavior and high-risk behavior.
- b. Analyze personal health risk and determine the appropriate preventive measures to minimize risk.
Task 4: Determine how health decisions and various lifestyles affect family, community, world, and environmental health.
- Objectives:
- a. Describe a variety of lifestyles and how they affect the health of the family, community, world, and environment.
- b. Examine the potential effect of each lifestyle on an individual's health.
Task 5: Develop cooperation skills.
- Objectives:
- a. Opportunity to learn about themselves.
- b. Develop a higher level of self-esteem.
- c. Develop a higher level of confidence.
- d. Develop skills needed to be an effective member of a group.
- e. Use problem-solving skills during their challenges.
- f. Use group skills.
Task 6: Determine the effects of the media on our health.
- Objectives:
- a. Describe how the media can influence lifestyles.
- b. Discuss the impact of commercials on health practices.
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Task 1: Determine how to take responsibility for mental health.
- Objectives:
- a. Define mental health.
- b. List characteristics describing people who are mentally healthy.
- c. Determine ways to enhance mental health.
- d. Determine unique differences in other people.
- e. Define self-esteem.
- f. Promote (+) self-esteem.
- g. Analyze how self-esteem influences decisions.
- h. Develop an understanding and empathy of how certain students might feel emotionally
- i. Identify support systems.
- j. Identify depression and its signs.
- k. Identify self-mutilation and its signs.
Task 2: Identify healthy emotions.
- Objectives:
- a. Define emotions by identifying positive and negative emotions.
- b. Discuss the influence of emotions on mental health.
- c. Explain how an expression of emotions affects one's mental and physical health.
- d. Determine healthy ways of adapting and managing emotions.
- e. Demonstrate how to change (-) self-talk messages into (+) productive self-talk messages.
- f. Broaden student's perspectives.
- g. Practice the decision making model.
- h. Evaluate decisions as being responsible or irresponsible.
Task 3: Determine the effects of stress.
- Objectives:
- a. Define stress.
- b. Identify the physical and emotional signs of a stress reaction.
- c. Identify the physiological arousal process involved in a stress reaction.
- d. Recognize the consequences of poor stress responses.
- e. Identify the various situations that can be stressful.
- f. Examine the effects of stress on mental and physical health.
- g. Recognize the (-) and (+) defense mechanisms used in stressful situations.
Task 4: Develop stress management skills.
- Objectives:
- a. Discuss ways of coping with and managing stress.
- b. Discuss the role of problem solving in stress management.
- c. Discuss the role of exercise and diet in stress management.
- d. Identify ways of applying management techniques and health practices to meet personal stress management needs.
- e. Identify and practice relaxation/diversion techniques.
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Task 1: Identify basic drug vocabulary and drug categories.
- Objectives:
- a. Describe the side effects of each drug category.
Task 2: Identify the complex factors that contribute to nonuse and abuse of drugs.
- Objectives:
- a. Examine the influence of family attitudes and practices on the use of drugs.
- b. Examine the influence of peers on the use of drugs.
- c. Examine adolescent needs and perceptions that influence the use of drugs.
- d. Examine the influences of environmental factors on the use of drugs.
- e. Identify facts and misconceptions about drugs.
Task 3: Described the effects from the use/abuse of prescription and non-prescription drugs.
- Objectives:
- a. Examine the physiological drug effects on body systems.
- b. Identify possible side effects of drugs.
- c. Determine how drugs interact with the body.
- d. Identify the definitions for the following drug categories:
- Depressants
- Narcotics
- Stimulants
- Hallucinogens
- Inhalants
- Marijuana
- Club/Date Rape drugs
- Steroids
Task 4: Describe the effects of tobacco use.
- Objectives:
- a. Identify the health problems related to smoking for the smoker and the non-smoker.
- b. Identify the problems associated from smokeless tobacco.
- c. Describe the benefits of not smoking or quitting the habit.
- d. Identify the chemicals found in tobacco products.
Task 5: Describe the effects of alcohol use and abuse.
- Objectives:
- a. Describe how alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream.
- b. Identify the factors that determine how alcohol affects the body.
- c. Determine the effects of different blood alcohol levels.
- d. Examine state laws governing alcohol consumption.
- e. Describe the physical, emotional, social, and mental effects of alcohol.
- f. Assess the effects of alcohol consumption on the fetus.
- g. Assess the possible family stresses and problems derived by alcohol consumption.
- h. Describe the disease of alcoholism.
- i. Examine ways to arrest and treat the disease of alcoholism.
- j. Determine the dangers of mixing drugs with alcohol.
Task 6: Examine the protective factors to promote a chemical-free lifestyle.
- Objectives:
- a. Determine what is a natural high.
- b. Determine effective peer group activities to promote a chemical free lifestyle.
- c. Develop problem-solving skills to promote a chemical-free lifestyle.
- d. Develop and design a drug pamphlet.
- e. Analyze and discuss the impact of verbal and non-verbal messages of communication.
- f. Practice assertive, non-assertive, and aggressive responses.
- g. Convert mixed messages into clear messages.
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Task 1: Sexual Anatomy
- Objectives:
- a. The students will identify/review the male and female reproductive systems
Task 2: Identify sexually transmitted diseases.
- Objectives:
- a. The students will identify the symptoms and treatment for males and females in:
- Gonorrhea
- Syphilis
- Genital Herpes
- Chlamydia
- Genital Warts (HPV)
- Hepatitis B
- Pubic Lice
- b. Determine how to control and reduce the spread of STD'S.
- c. Examine the short- and long-term effects of STD's if not treated.
- d. Examine the impact of sexually transmitted diseases on family and future.
Task 3: Describe issues related to HIV-infection.
- Objectives:
- a. Identify the virus, its make-up, and the progressive steps of the virus.
- b. The methods of transmitting HIV-infection.
- c. The symptoms of the HIV/AIDS infection.
- d. The treatment of the HIV/AIDS infection.
- e. Issues related to HIV-infection.
- f. How to reduce the risk of contracting HIV.
Task 4: Teen pregnancy and the consequences.
- Objectives:
- a. Identify the effects of teen pregnancy on education, finances associated with raising a child, family, friends, & future.
Task 5: Identify a healthy relationship.
- Objectives:
- a. The signs of abusive relationships.
- b. Rape and date rape.
- c. Sexual harassment.
- d. Relationships and the stereotypical myths.
- e. The content of a positive relationship.
- f. The age of consent.
Task 6: Identify a positive future.
- Objectives:
- a. The students will identify the goals for their future.
- b. Recognize the type of lifestyle needed to reach certain goals.
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Task 1: Review CPR techniques.
- Objectives:
- a. Heimlich maneuver
- b. CPR (adult, child, and infant)
- c. Practice saving the choking, blocked airway, and cardiac arrest patient.
- d. The students will complete the entire American Red Cross Certification course to be eligible for certification.
- e. American Red Cross Certification test will be implemented for certification (80% needed).
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Task 1: Examine healthful ways of maintaining desirable body weight.
- Objectives:
- a. Recognize the use and misuse of dietary supplements.
- b. Identify ways of obtaining and maintaining desirable weight.
- c. Discuss the health concerns associated with being underweight.
- d. Identify the healthful ways of gaining weight.
- e. Identify the three eating disorders.
- f. Analyze the causes, symptoms, and treatment of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating.
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