GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Curriculum Guide
Course Title: Health
Subject: Health
Grade Levels: Grade 8
Department/School: Physical Education/Health-Glen Ridge High School
Duration: Ten Weeks
Number of Credits: 1
Prerequisite: N/A
Elective or required: Required
Author: Aaron Maltz
Rachel Miscia
Date Submitted: Summer 2004
Course Description
Health Education seeks to improve the student’s mental, physical, and social well-being. Information is provided to improve student knowledge and experiences that can lead to healthy lifestyle decisions. Students will adopt healthy practices and decision-making skills that will help to produce a positive self-direction in their lifestyle and behavior. Students will be introduced to the concept of fitness in every aspect of the term and its importance to them throughout their life.
Alcoholism and drug use will be defined, and students will achieve a greater understanding of these problems and how they can be avoided and helped. Pregnancy and sexuality will be investigated so that students can see the enormous level of responsibility that comes with choosing to be sexually active.
Various other topics will be discussed that will be presented so that they may understand the value of each in their daily lives. The cooperative effort of school, family, and community agencies will enhance the health education program.
Health
STANDARD 2.1 (WELLNESS) ALL STUDENTS WILL LEARN AND APPLY HEALTH
PROMOTION CONCEPTS AND SKILLS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.
A. Personal Health
2. Evaluate the impact of health behaviors and choices on
personal and family wellness.
3. Interpret health data to make predictions about
wellness.
B. Growth and Development
2. Discuss how body systems are interdependent and
interrelated.
3. Investigate the physical, social, emotional, and
intellectual changes that occur at each life stage and how those changes impact
wellness.
4. Discuss how heredity, physiological changes,
environmental influences, and varying social experiences contribute to an
individual’s uniqueness.
F. Social and Emotional Health
1. Analyze how personal assets, resilience, and
protective factors support healthy social and emotional development.
3. Investigate factors and choices that contribute to the
incidence of conflict, harassment, bullying, vandalism and violence and demonstrate strategies to deal with each.
4. Analyze the effectiveness of home, school, and
community efforts to prevent conflict, harassment, vandalism and violence.
5. Debate the consequences of conflict and violence on
the individual, the family, and the community.
7. Analyze how culture influences the ways families and
groups cope with crisis and change.
STANDARD 2.2 (INTEGRATED
SKILLS) ALL STUDENTS WILL USE
HEALTH-ENHANCING PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL, AND LIFE SKILLS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY,
ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.
D. Character Development
1. Analyze how character development can be enhanced and
supported by individual, group, and team activities.
2. Compare and contrast the characteristics of various
role models and the core ethical values they represent.
3. Explain how community and public service supports the
development of core ethical values.
4. Analyze personal and group adherence to student codes
of conduct.
E. Leadership, Advocacy, and Service
1. Demonstrate the ability to function effectively in
both leadership and supportive roles.
2. Discuss motivational techniques used to improve
personal and group achievement and develop rewards and sanctions for group
accomplishments.
3. Develop and articulate a group’s goals, shared values,
and vision.
4. Plan and implement volunteer activities to benefit a
health organization or cause.
5. Develop and defend a position or opinion on a health
issue or problem and educate students and parents about the health issue or
cause.
F. Health Services and Careers
1. Compare and contrast health and fitness services
available in the school and community, demonstrate how to access them, and
evaluate each comparing benefits and costs.
2. Compare and contrast preparation and job requirements
for health and fitness careers.
STANDARD 2.3 (DRUGS AND
MEDICINES) ALL STUDENTS WILL LEARN AND
APPLY INFORMATION ABOUT ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, OTHER DRUGS AND MEDICINES TO MAKE
DECISIONS THAT SUPPORT A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.
A. Medicines
3. Recommend safe practices for the use of prescription
medicines.
4. Compare and contrast the benefits and dangers of
naturally occurring substances, such as herbs, organics, and supplements.
B. Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs
3. Investigate how the use and abuse of alcohol
contributes to illnesses such as cancer, liver disease, heart disease, and
injuries.
4. Analyze how the use and abuse of alcohol impacts
thinking, reaction time, and behavior.
5. Describe sudden sniffing syndrome and the resultant
brain, nerve, and vital organ damage that can result from the use of inhaled
substances.
6. Compare and contrast the physical and behavioral
effects of each classification of drug.
7. Analyze health risks associated with injecting drug
use.
8. Investigate the legal and financial consequences of
the use, sale, and possession of illegal substances.
9. Discuss how the use of alcohol and other drugs
influences decision making and places one at risk for sexual assault,
pregnancy, and STD’s.
C. Dependency/Addiction and Treatment
1. Analyze the physical, social, and emotional indicators
and stages of dependency.
2. Discuss ways to quit using substances and discuss
factors that support the ability to quit.
3. Analyze factors that influence the use and abuse of
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
4. Describe how substance abuse affects the individual,
the family, and the community.
5. Discuss how tolerance, synergistic effects, and
antagonistic effects have an impact on the use of drugs and medicines.
6. Discuss theories about dependency, such as genetic
predisposition, gender-related predisposition, and multiple risks.
STANDARD 2.4 (HUMAN
RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY) ALL
STUDENTS WILL LEARN THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN
RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY AND APPLY THESE CONCEPTS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY,
ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.
A. Relationships
1. Compare and contrast the current and historical role
of marriage and the family in community and society.
2. Discuss changes in family structures and the forces
that influence change.
3. Analyze how relationships evolve over time, focusing
on changes in friendships, family dating relationships, and lifetime
commitments such as marriage.
4. Describe how various cultures date or select life
partners.
5. Differentiate among affection, love, commitment, and sexual
attraction.
B. Sexuality
1. Discuss the influence of hormones heredity, nutrition,
and the environment on the physical, social, and emotional changes that occur
at puberty.
8. Discuss the importance of routine healthcare
procedures such as breast self examination.
C. Pregnancy and Parenting
1. Describe each stage of embryonic and fetal
development.
2. Discuss the signs and symptoms of pregnancy and
explain how pregnancy is confirmed.
3. Analyze the physical and emotional changes that occur
during each stage of pregnancy including the stages of labor and childbirth.
4. Discuss the importance of regular prenatal care to
help prevent complications that may occur during pregnancy and childbirth.
5. Describe the potential impact of alcohol, tobacco,
other drugs, medicines, diseases, and environmental hazards on pre-natal and
post-natal development.
6. Describe the physical, economic, emotional, social,
cultural, and intellectual responsibilities of parenthood.
7. Describe effective parenting strategies and resources
for help with parenting.
8. Analyze the challenges and responsibilities of being a
teen mother and/or teen father.
UNIT 1 – PERSONAL
HEALTH
A. Wellness
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Evaluate the impact of choices and behaviors that relate to health on personal and family wellness.
2. Interpret data to make predictions about wellness.
UNIT 2 – GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
A. Body Systems
B. Changes
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Realize body systems are interdependent and interrelated.
2. Know that the body grows and changes as a person grows up and how.
3. Understand how the body changes physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually during each stage of life.
4. Know how heredity and physiological changes make an individual unique.
5. Understand environmental and social factors can help to mold a person into a unique individual as well.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of how changes in a person affect a person’s wellness.
UNIT 3 – SOCIAL AND
EMOTIONAL HEALTH
A. Social
B. Emotional Health
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Understand what factors help to support healthy social and emotional development (assets, resilience, protective factors, confidence, etc.)
2. Understand factors that can cause conflict, harassment, bullying, vandalism, and violence should be recognized.
3. Realize consequences of conflict and violence.
4. Explain factors that can prevent conflict, harassment, vandalism, and violence.
5. Control emotions to perform better.
6. Understand how cultural influences affect personal and family abilities to cope with crisis and change.
UNIT 4 – CHARACTER
DEVELOPMENT
A. Group
B. Individual
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Know how team and group activities enhance character development.
2. Understand that the community aids personal development by providing core ethical values.
3. Realize that individual activities cause character development in many ways.
4. Know the potential effect of role models on an individual’s character development.
5. Understand the importance of adherence to student codes of conduct.
UNIT 5 – LEADERSHIP,
ADVOCACY, AND SERVICE
A. Leadership
B. Service
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Understand the importance of ability to function in a leadership role.
2. Act as a leader
- motivation techniques
- group achievement
- development rewards
- sanctions
3. Formulate group’s goals, shared values, and vision.
4. Have the ability to function in supportive roles with others.
5. Understand the importance of being able to take criticism.
6. Develop and defend a position or opinion on a health issue or problem and educate students and parents about the health issue or cause.
UNIT 6 – HEALTH
SERVICES AND CAREERS
A. Health Services
Objective:
Each student will be able to:
1. Know health and fitness services in and around the school and community and demonstrate how to properly access them.
UNIT VII - MEDICINES
A. Legal medicines
Objective:
Each student will be able to:
1. Understand the safe use of medications
2. Know both benefits and dangers of naturally occurring substances, such as herbs, organics, and supplements.
UNIT 8 – ALCOHOL,
TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUGS
A. Alcohol
B. Drugs
C. Tobacco
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Understand that the use/abuse of alcohol helps cause cancer, liver disease, heart disease, and injuries.
2. Know alcohol use negatively affects thinking, reaction time, and behavior.
3. Realize legal issues with drinking underage.
4. Demonstrate knowledge that the use of alcohol puts individuals at risk for sexual assault, pregnancy, and STD’s.
5. Discuss how judgement is impaired when using alcohol
6. Describe the negative effects of alcohol.
7. Discuss why individuals start and continue to drink alcohol.
8. Know the numerous health risks.
9. Realize the severe legal and financial consequences for doing drugs.
10. Understand how the use of drugs places an individual where their safety is compromised.
11. Identify different types of drugs.
12. Understand the financial, health, and time negative consequences from using tobacco.
UNIT 9 -DEPENDENCY/ADDICTION
AND TREATMENT
A. Addiction
B. Treatment
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. List and understand the different factors of dependency/addiction.
- Physical
- Social
- Emotional
2. Know the factors that influence the use and abuse of harmful substances.
3. Describe the effects of substance abuse on an individual, family, and community.
4. Discuss the effects that tolerance has on use of drugs and medicines.
5. Understand the genetic predisposition to addiction.
6. Discuss the gender related predisposition.
7. List ways to quit using substances.
8. Identify the support groups that can help quit addictions.
UNIT 10 - RELATIONSHIPS
A. Marriage
B. Relationships
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Describe the historical role of marriage and family and each individual’s role in society.
2. Discuss the current role of marriage and family and how each individual’s role changed.
3. Explain family structures and factors that can cause change.
4. Describe differences of how various cultures date or select life partners.
5. Know the importance of a lifetime commitment such as marriage.
6. Analyze how relationships evolve over time.
7. Discuss the changes in friendships.
8. Understand the effects of dating on families.
9. Know the importance of being able to differentiate between affection, love, commitment, and sexual attraction.
UNIT 11 – SEXUALITY
A. Changes Physically and Mentally
B. Healthcare
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Explain how hormones influence changes in the body as puberty occurs.
2. Discuss how puberty causes changes to a person’s emotional as well as physical state.
3. Understand how heredity, nutrition, and environment play large roles in the changes that occur during puberty.
4. Know that routine self examinations such as breast or testicular self examinations are extremely important.
5. Understand how the use of contraception to prevent pregnancy or risk of contracting a STD is extremely important if sexually active.
UNIT 12 – PREGNANCY
AND PARENTING
A. Pregnancy
B. Parenting
Objectives:
Each student will be able to:
1. Describe stages of embryonic and fetal development.
2. Discuss signs and potential symptoms of pregnancy.
3. Know how pregnancy is confirmed.
4. Discuss the physical and emotional changes that occur during stages of pregnancy.
5. Understand labor.
6. Understand childbirth.
7. Discuss how regular prenatal care is important to insure a complication-free pregnancy and childbirth.
8. Describe potential impact of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, medicines, diseases, and environmental hazards on pre-natal and post-natal development.
9. Understand the responsibilities of parenthood:
- physical
- economic
- social
- cultural
- intellectual
10. Investigate effective parenting strategies.
11. Know where to obtain parenting resources for help.
12. Analyze the challenges and responsibilities of being a teen mother and/or teen father.
List texts, resources and/or
literature:
·
Teen Health, Course 3.
· Library
· Internet
· Guest Speaker
· Newspaper articles
· Class Handouts