GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Curriculum Guide

 

 

Course Title:                                         Family Life

 

Subject:                                                Health

 

Grade Levels:                                       Grade 9

 

Department/School:                              Physical Education/Health-Glen Ridge High School

 

Duration:                                              Ten Weeks

 

Number of Credits:                               1

 

Prerequisite:                                          N/A

 

Elective or required:                              Required

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author:  Rachel Miscia

Date Submitted:  Summer 2004

 

 

Course Description

 

 

            Health Education is concerned with the students’ physical, mental, emotional and social well being.  The students will become knowledgeable in the process of human conception and birth.  The students’ will discuss the aspects of human sexuality and teen relationships.  Students’ will be provided with the information on the dangerous effects of substance abuse.  The primary goal is to provide information that will assist students in developing concepts and behaviors that will encourage the formation of safe, personal health practices.

 

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards

 

Health

 

STANDARD 2.1 (WELLNESS)  ALL STUDENTS WILL LEARN AND APPLY HEALTH PROMOTION CONCEPTS AND SKILLS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.

 

STANDARD 2.2 (INTEGRATED SKILLS)  ALL STUDENTS WILL USE HEALTH-ENHANCING PERSONAL, INTERPERSONAL, AND LIFE SKILLS TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.

 

STANDARD 2.3 (DRUGS AND MEDICINES)  ALL STUDENTS WILL LEARN AND APPLY INFORMATION ABOUT ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND MEDICINES TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT SUPPORT A HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.

 

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.

Mission Statement

 

 

A sound health education is a necessary and desirable phase of the students’ complete education and should be an integral part of the total school program.

 

It should provide the opportunity for the students to obtain and understand factual information contributing to their mental, physical, social and emotional growth and needs.

 

The program should be structured to work toward the development of informed students who can maintain and improve their own health and assist others regarding health information.

 

By acquiring the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to a healthful life, students learn to make informed choices concerning their own health.

 

A successful health education program is one which involves the student, the family, the community and the school, and is a shared responsibility of all.  This program should promote wellness as a means to a healthy adult lifestyle.

 

 

Goals:

 

·         To help students develop desirable, physical, mental, emotional, social, and safety habits which will lead to a high quality of living.

 

·         To equip students with understandings and attitudes which will help them make intelligent decisions on matters pertaining to personal and community health.

 

·         To develop in students an understanding of and skills for dealing with illness and emergencies which arise in the home and at school.

 

·         To help students be aware of the positive and negative determinants of individual health status, including personal lifestyle and social, environmental, psychological, and genetic factors.

 

·         To help students be aware of the relationships between health status and the major needs, sources of stress, and developmental characteristics of people throughout the human life cycle.

 

·         To help prepare school youth for successful social and family living.

 

·         To involve the school, family and community agencies in partnership to reinforce positive skills, attitudes and behaviors.

UNIT 1 – PERSONAL HEALTH

Standard 2.1

 

Goal:    All students will learn and apply health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

 

Objectives:

Each student will be able to:

1.      Investigate the impact of health choices and behaviors on personal, family and community wellness.

2.      Recommend healthy ways to lose, gain, or maintain weight.

3.      Analyze and evaluate how healthy and unhealthy eating patterns impact the functioning of the human body, including healthy bone development and immune functioning.

4.      Analyze the impact of physical development, social norms, and expectations, self-esteem, and perceived vulnerability on adolescent social and emotional growth and behavior.

 

 

UNIT 2 – INTEGRATED SKILLS

Standard 2.2

 

Goal:    All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

 

Objectives:

Each student will be able to:

1.      Develop, present and evaluate a multimedia health presentation and adapt it to address the needs and interests of varying students.

2.      Demonstrate and evaluate the use of decision making skills.

3.      Evaluate a group’s ability to be respectful, supportive and adherent to codes of conduct.

 

 

UNIT 3 – DRUGS AND MEDICINES

Standard 2.3

 

Goal:    All students will learn and apply information about alcohol, tobacco and medicines to make decisions that support a healthy, active lifestyle.

 

Objectives:

Each student will be able to:

1.      Investigate the use of new or experimental medicines and discuss the potential risks and benefits.

2.      Evaluate the effectiveness of a medicine, considering the dosage, side effects, route of administration, cost and benefits vs. risks.

3.      Debate the benefits and dangers of naturally occurring substances such as herbal supplements.

4.      Investigate use as a contributing factor in incidence of cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other lung diseases.

5.      Assess the impact of passive smoke on the health of children, individuals with allergies and asthma and non-smokers, and describe initiatives created to lessen the impact.

6.      Summarize the impact of alcohol use and abuse on the body systems and organs including the cardiovascular system, the liver, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

7.      Describe the impact of alcohol and other drugs on those areas of the brain that control vision, sleep, coordination and reaction time and assess how the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs impairs behavior, judgment, and memory.

8.      Investigate the relationship between injected drug use and the incidence of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.

9.      Compare and contrast the physical, social, and emotional indicators of possible substance abuse.

10.  Compare and contrast the physical and psychological stages of dependency.

11.  Assess and evaluate factors that influence the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

12.  Evaluate factors that support an individual to quit using substances.

13.  Predict the short and long term impacts of substance abuse on the individual, the family, the community, and society.

 

 

UNIT 4 – HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY

Standard 2.4

 

Goal:    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.

 

Objectives:

Each student will be able to:

1.      Investigate how different family structures, values, rituals, and traditions meet basic human needs.

2.      Discuss how personal independence, past experiences, and social responsibility influence the choice of friends in young adulthood.

3.      Recommend strategies to enhance and maintain mature, loving, respectful, and healthy relationships.

4.      Compare and contrast adolescent and adult dating practices.

5.      Discuss the importance of physical and emotional intimacy in a healthy relationship.

6.      Develop strategies to address domestic or dating violence and end unhealthy relationships.

7.      Appraise internal and external influences and pressures to become sexually active and demonstrate strategies to resist those pressures. 

8.      Critique behaviors that place one at greater risk for HIV/AIDS, STD’s and unintended pregnancy.

9.      Analyze factors that influence the choice, use and effectiveness of contraception, risk reduction or risk elimination strategies.

10.  Investigate female and male reproductive and sexual health issues and discuss the importance of education and preventive healthcare.

11.  Compare and contrast embryonic and fetal development in single and multiple pregnancies.

12.  Describe the stages of labor and childbirth and compare childbirth options.

13.  Analyze the physical and emotional changes that occur during each trimester of pregnancy and postpartum.

14.  Compare and contrast pregnancy options.

15.  Discuss physical, emotional, social, cultural, religious, and legal issues related to pregnancy termination.

16.  Investigate the relationship between prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, infections and environmental hazards and the incidence of fetal alcohol syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, and disabilities.

OUTLINE

 

    A.  Nutrition

 

            a. Eating Disorders

                                             i.      Anorexia Nervosa

                                           ii.      Bulimia Nervosa

                                          iii.      Pica

            b. Eating Habits

                                             i.      Gaining weight

                                           ii.      Losing weight

 

     B.  Substance Abuse and Negative effects

 

            a. Drugs Classification

                                             i.      Definition of drugs

                                           ii.      Prescription drugs

                                    a. warning labels

                                    b. proper administration

                                          iii.      Over the counter drugs (OTC)

                                    a. strength

                                    b. dangers

            b. Chemical Dependency

                                             i.      Psychological

                                           ii.      Physical

                                          iii.      Steps to dependency

                                         iv.      Effect on individual, family and society

                                    a. Living in an alcoholic home

                                    b. Loss of productivity

                                    c. Cost of health care

v. Agencies providing assistance

                                    a. Self-help: AA, NA Alanon, Alateen, ACOA

                                    b. Professional: detox, treatment centers

            c. Media Messages about chemical abuse

i.         Values in advertising

ii.       Appeal of advertising

            d. Physiological and psychological effects of chemicals

                                             i.      Marijuana

                                           ii.      Cocaine

                                          iii.      Ecstasy

                                         iv.      GHB

                                           v.      PCP

                                         vi.      Steroids

 

     C.  Reproductive System

 

a.       Female reproductive system

                                                               i.      Internal organs

                                                             ii.      External organs

                                                            iii.      Menstruation

b.      Male reproductive system

                                                               i.      Internal organs

                                                             ii.      External organs

                                                            iii.      Nocturnal emissions

c.       Conception

                                                               i.      Fertilization

                                                             ii.      Heredity

d.      Pregnancy

                                                               i.      1st trimester

                                                             ii.      2nd trimester

                                                            iii.      3rd trimester

                                                           iv.      Prenatal care

e.       Effects of drugs, alcohol and tobacco

                                                               i.      Mother

                                                             ii.      Fetus

f.        Childbirth

                                                               i.      Stages of childbirth

a.       1st stage

b.      2nd stage

c.       3rd stage

                                                             ii.      Multiple births

a.       Fraternal

b.      Identical

                                                            iii.      Birth complications

a.       Breech

b.      Caesarian

                                                           iv.      Birth defects

a.       Inherited

b.      Environmental

 

     D.  Interpersonal Relationships

 

a. Why date?

i.    Development of social skills

ii. Learn about values

iii. Emotional involvement

iv. Honest communication

b. Communication and dating

i. Verbal

ii. Non-verbal

iii. Communicating with your date

iv. Communicating with your parents

c. Dating and sexual behavior

i. Influence of individuals, family standards

ii. Different sexual practices

a. Abstinence

b. Sex with affection

c. Sex without affection

d. Double standards

iii. Other considerations

a. Sex drives

b. Settings

c. Responsibility

d. Validity of the relationship

e. “Proving our love”

iv. Cooling things down

a. Talk

b. Set limits

c. Work together

v. Being in love

a. Physical

b. Emotional

c. Intellectual

d. Social

 

     E.  Sexuality

 

a.      What is sexuality

                                                               i.      Physical differences

                                                             ii.      Being and behaving

                                                            iii.      Emotional and social aspects

b.      Learning sex roles

                                                               i.      masculinity and femininity

                                                             ii.      learning

c.             Sex roles stereotypes

                                                               i.      masculine traits

                                                             ii.      feminine traits

d.            Choosing your role

                                                               i.      society’s changing views

                                                             ii.      individual choice

                                                            iii.      changing roles through life

e.             Sexual responsibility

                                                               i.      understanding feelings of others

                                                             ii.      conflicts of society and religion

f.              Choices about parenthood

                                                               i.      Reasons for contraception

a. married couples

b. unmarried couples

g.             Methods of Contraception

                                                               i.      Withdrawal

                                                             ii.      Rhythm method

                                                            iii.      Spermicides

                                                           iv.      Condoms(female/male)

                                                             v.      Diaphragm

                                                           vi.      Oral contraception

                                                          vii.      Patch

h.             Sterilization

i.   Tubal ligation

ii.  Vasectomy

i.               Abortion

i.   Spontaneous