Health

1^st Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – FIRST GRADE

Injury Prevention & Personal Safety

Careless and careful behavior

Actions have consequences

Being responsible

Rules of safe play

Safe & unsafe fire prevention routines

Keeping your body safe

Routines for body care

Private body parts

Types of touches

Yell and tell

Refusal skills

Nutrition

Healthful food choices

Safe food handling

Cultural, familial & individual preferences

Goals for healthful eating

Decision-making for healthful diet

Food needs of living things

Healthful vs. unhealthful

Variety

Meal plans

Healthful breakfast

Functions of the Body

Identifying body parts & functions: heart, lungs, liver, teeth,

five senses, brain, skin, ears, mouth, blood, stomach & intestines

Safety routines to protect body

Heeding body signals

Talking & listening

Speaking & hearing problems

Growth & Development/Cycle of Family Life

Muscles & bones

Growth & development throughout life cycle

Exercise at all ages

Family fun

Responsibility

Setting goals

Cooperation

Independence & dependence

HIV/AIDS and Illness Prevention

Illness symptoms

Self care

Consequences of poor care

Germs & preventing spreading

Fighting germs

Expressing empathy

Following directions

Community hygiene rules

Substance Abuse Prevention

Identify drugs (tobacco, alcohol, medicines)

Effects of drugs

Locating trusted adults for help

Respect for community helpers

Rules, laws for preventing drug abuse

Routines for healthy living

Refusal skills

Consequences of no or wrong medicine

Community Health & Safety (Violence Prevention)

Define community

Community helpers

How being a responsible citizen helps your community

Rules and laws

Unsafe and violent actions

Safety routines to avoid violence and danger

Bullying

Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health

Identify personal talents, qualities, feelings

Methods of communication

Respect for self/others

Helping others

Setting goals

Using refusal skills

Locating trusted adults

Talking about feelings

Making friends

Environmental and Consumer Health

Basic needs of humans

Clean and polluted air

Avoid smoke and smog

Effect of air pollution on lungs

Community health/safety professionals and services

Rules for health care products

Proper storage of health care products

Physical Fitness

Relationships between exercise and nutrition

Respiratory health

Strong muscles and bones

Define physically fit

Benefits of exercise throughout life

Safety routines

Good sportsmanship and anger management

Goals for self and others in family

2^nd Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – SECOND GRADE

Injury Prevention & Personal Safety

Safe vs. unsafe

Safety rules and laws

Common hazards

Emergencies: getting help, acting quickly

Protecting brain

Responsibility

Refusal skills, using predicting steps

Respect for danger

Personal safety routines

Types of touches

Nutrition

Role of nutrients

Number of daily servings from food pyramid

Role of good breakfast

Classifying & evaluating foods

Responsible food choices

Nutrition & self worth

Implementing goals

Healthful snacks

Functions of the Body

Parts & functions of the brain

Various ways to be smart

Thinking skills

Heart functions & health routines

Muscles

Skin

Making choices to protect hearts

Effects of smoking

Symptoms & effects of fear

Developing empathy

Growth & Development/Cycle of Family Life

Babies grow & change

Older children

Adults

Old age

Needs of growing plants

Animals & people

Being patient

Defining family

Family roles & differences

Responsibility in families

Facing family changes

Prediction consequences of resisting change

HIV/AIDS and Illness Prevention

Defining germs

Sick & well

Setting illness prevention goals

Respecting body signals

Classifying living & non-living things

Antibodies

Do’s & don’ts if sick

Community health helpers

Rules & laws

Substance Abuse Prevention

Identify drug types (nicotine, alcohol, street drugs)

Importance of healthy choices

Practice changing habits

Positive ways to solve problems

Safety routines when sick

Effects of drugs on family & community

Communicating & sharing

Refusal skills

Community Health & Safety (Violence Prevention)

Rules to keep you safe in key situations

Thanking community helpers

Role playing different at-risk situations

Practicing asking for help

Read, write & speak name, address & phone number

Knowing when you need what help

Refusal skills

Avoiding violence

Bullying

Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health

Identify special qualities in self and others

Respect and empathy for self and others

Feelings during family change

Coping with fear

Real dangers

Helping others

Communicating

Avoiding risky situations

Recognizing prejudice

Environmental and Consumer Health

Environmental hazards and skin safety

Sun damage and protection

Rules for safe use of food and health car products

Health/safety professionals & their services, food handling laws

Healthful meal selections

Asthma and air pollution

Second-hand smoke

Physical Fitness

Benefits of exercise on the heart, muscles and bones

Actions that help or hurt

Muscle control

Safety routines

Rules for safe play

Goals

3^rd Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – THIRD GRADE

Injury Prevention & Personal Safety

Safe at home & away

Responsible strategies

Safe environments

Turning unsafe into safe

Identifying emergencies

Concept of risk

Setting personal goals

Defining child abuse & violence

Personal safety

Refusal skills

Assertiveness

Nutrition

Understanding nutrients

The body & food labels

Responsible food choices

Nutritional guidelines

Food handling & labeling laws

Nutrients & digestion

Thinking patterns that affect eating habits

Ranking foods for energy & nutrients

Testing recipes

Food pyramid

Functions of the Body

Eye function & operation

Respect for differences in perspective

Practicing seeing new things

Eye problems & protection

Eye care standards

Digestive and immune systems

Cells

Physical impairments

Responsible self care

Growth & Development/Cycle of Family Life

Defining word family

Different types of families

Respecting importance of family

Different responsibilities & traditions

Role of genes

Pride in culture

Preventing discrimination

Setting goals

Pride in difference

Consequences if everyone alike

HIV/AIDS and Illness Prevention

How germs spread

Communicable vs. other illness

Defining epidemic

Fighting disease

Defense system

Self worth

Responsible vs. irresponsible

Vaccines & medicines

Refusal skills

Healthy behaviors

Substance Abuse Prevention

Define drug-free safe community

Rules & laws

Personal strategies for drug safety

Drug addiction (nicotine, alcohol, street drugs, medicines)

Addiction vs. values (honesty, patience, persistence)

Consequences to giving in to drugs

Refusal skills

Community Health & Safety (Violence Prevention)

Community safety rules and laws

Practice habits that save environment

Ways you might hurt others & they might hurt you

Practice ways of avoiding fights

Classify violent & non-violent TV

Consequences of various behaviors

Define drug-free & good citizen

Bullying

Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health

Uniqueness of self and others

Positive attitudes

Values and goals

Respect for self & pride in heritage

Grief and loss

Different points of view

Communication & refusal skills

Friendship goals

Personal responsibility for health and safety behaviors

Discrimination & prejudice

Environmental and Consumer Health

Pollution problems

Clean environments

Environmental protection rules

Food labels

Food handling nutrition and packaged foods

Second-hand smoke

Physical Fitness

The skeleton

Joints

Benefits and enjoyment of exercise

Safety rules and injury prevention in organized sports

Exercise and play

Goals for fitness

Practice exercises

4^th Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – FOURTH GRADE

Injury Prevention & Personal Safety

Safety hazards

Things that hurt your body

Common sense

Taking responsibility

Dangerous vs. harmless

Good decisions

Types of abuse (inc. sexual harassment)

Right to privacy

Sharing with trusted adult

Consequences of not telling

Refusal skills

Nutrition

Digestive process

Calories

Energy & nutrients

Responsibility for eating & exercising

Meal planning

Aesthetic & sensory preferences

Refusal skills

Eating disorders

Food groups

Functions of the Body

Heart, lungs, bones, muscles digestion, endocrine & immune system

Teeth & dental care

Smiling

Mouth structure

Dental products

Dental professionals

Ears: function & care

Responsible behavior

Hearing problems

Showing kindness and patience

Signing

Growth & Development/Cycle of Family Life

Hormones & body changes

Meaning of growing up physically & emotionally

Managing strong emotions

Good hygiene

Setting goals

Value of keeping clean

Personal appearance

Decision-making

Cosmetics & hygiene products

HIV/AIDS and Illness Prevention

Identifying virus

Bacteria

Fungi

Hygiene routines

Illness prevention

Consequences of ignoring germs

Immune system & HIV

Decision-making for healthy behavior

Unhealthy risk

How HIV is transmitted

AIDS & the community

Hepatitis

Substance Abuse Prevention

Effects of smoking

Difficulty of changing habits

Addictions: physical & psychological effects

Advertising & influences on behavior

Second-hand smoke

Identify drugs & effects

Value of being drug-free

Drug/HIV link

Refusal skills

Help resources

Developmental assets

Community Health & Safety (Violence Prevention)

Community safety laws & regulations

Resolving conflicts peacefully

Different forms of violence & triggers

Decision-making steps for group tactics to avoid violence

Personal goals for community safety

Efforts to discourage drugs

Bullying & harassment

Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health

Media, peer & behavioral influences

Grief and loss

Emotions

Body image & health habits

Relationships

Respect for self and others

Communication skills

Goal setting

Social responsibility

Avoiding negative influences

Making healthful decisions

Developmental assets

Understanding points of view

Environmental and Consumer Health

Types of pollution

Environmental health in the community

Reducing air and noise pollution

Health care professionals and their services

Food, hygiene and cosmetic products

Product labels

Buying habits

Second-hand smoke

Physical Fitness

Muscular system

Define physical fitness

Benefits of exercise

Practice various forms of exercise and injury avoidance routines

Goals for exercise and fitness

Relation between exercise and physical fitness

Self worth and stress reduction

5^th Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – FIFTH GRADE

Injury Prevention & Personal Safety

Define First Aid

Helping others

Rules for emergencies

Decision-making steps

First Aid skills

Major vs. minor emergencies

Avoiding risk

Personal safety

Sexual harassment

Assertiveness

Refusal skills

Locating resources for help

Nutrition

Nutrition in the community

Good food handling practices

Responsible approach to food choices

Individual family & personal values

Predicting results of good nutrition

Life cycle & changes in nutritional needs

Preventing illness & disease

Shopping, health policy

Eating disorders

Dietary guidelines

Functions of the Body

Brain structure & functions

Thinking, reflex vs. conscious

Respiratory system

Breathing problems & response to emergencies

Endocrine, nervous, circulatory, reproductive, muscular/skeletal systems

Respect for self & others, self care responsibility

Growth & Development/Cycle of Family Life

Growing up

Endocrine system

Role of hormones

Scientific careers

Hormone disorders

Biological differences between boys & girls

Responsibilities of maturing adolescent

Decision-making in at-risk situations

Social skills

HIV/AIDS and Illness Prevention

Circulatory system

Consequences of smoking

Excess fats & salt

Drugs & alcohol

Blood & immune system

Immunization

Effects of HIV on immune system

Setting goals

Refusal skills

AIDS care

Respiratory disease

Empathy

Substance Abuse Prevention

Use, misuse & abuse of drugs

Short & long term effects by drug category

Why drugs won’t solve problems

Practicing positive values (self-respect, responsibility, honesty) vs. yielding to drugs

Media Influences

Positive social behaviors

Family

Children of alcoholics

Developmental assets

Community Health & Safety (Violence Prevention)

Public healthy/safety groups

Community safety & illness prevention

First Aid in community

Group behaviors that pose safety hazards

Demonstrating responsibility to others

Routines for keeping safe

Community impact of communicable respiratory disease

Conflict resolution

Harassment & bullying

Gangs

Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health

Structure and function of the brain

Human emotions

Emotional maturity

Positive and negative influences

Puberty and self esteem

Respect

Grief and loss

Service to others

Communication and conflict resolution

Health routines

Protective factors & support systems

Environmental and Consumer Health

Physical activity and environmental conditions

Consumer skills and influences, advertising, product labels

Managing money

Consumer responsibilities and advocacy

Unit price shopping

Social responsibility

Consumer products evaluation

Physical Fitness

Muscular/skeletal system

Benefits of exercise

Identify healthful environmental condition for exercise

Safety routines

Fitness goals

Good sportsmanship

Fitness habits

Sports and dance from other cultures

Components of physical fitness

Middle School

The Wooster Health/Life Skills curriculum is a planned program of learning experiences in grades K-12 which motivate and prepare students to promote and ensure the quality of individual, family, and community health.

The Health/Life Skills program enables students to grow in self-awareness and to develop skills for effective decision-making. The program is responsive to student-generated concerns and increases knowledge of health issues, while encouraging the development of positive health practices. Recognizing that parents and guardians are the primary educators of their children in this regard, these programs are designed to complement and support what is being done at home.

The 6th grade program will be taught using the Great Body Shop health curriculum. The course will cover topics such as stress, allergies, nutrition, substance abuse, and human sexuality.

The 7th grade course will focus on the scientific aspects of health. The course will cover topics such as anatomy, food and digestion, fighting diseases, and human sexuality.

The 8th grade program is a continuation of the 7th, with focus on cooperative group skills, conflict resolution, coping strategies, eating disorders/nutrition, sexuality, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse, with particular attention paid to the effects of alcohol and tobacco. A peer leadership program is offered to 7th and 8th graders on a voluntary basis to help develop and strengthen good communication, management, and decision-making skills.

6^th Grade

GREAT BODY SHOP – SIXTH GRADE

The Health curriculum in the 6th grade is designed to introduce and give an overview of several major topics which will be studied again in later Middle School health classes. Much of the material is covered with a science-oriented approach, though time is also allowed for personal opinion and discussion on family and personal values. Topics include:

Nutrition

six types of nutrients

calories and personal caloric needs

individual diet vs. exercise

reading food labels

additives.

Exercise

calories burned in various activities

weight gain and loss

Allergies and Asthma

reasons

body reactions

what medication does

Smoking

health effects

addiction

social pressures

Reproduction

male and female reproductive system

puberty

changes in our bodies

The opportunity is given to ask questions in single sex settings.

Emotional Health

friendships

peer pressure

how to say "No".

7^th Grade

SEVENTH GRADE HEALTH

Maintaining emotional and physical health permits all of us, regardless of age, the best chance to achieve our life goals. This class will provide you with the fundamentals of understanding the mind and body: how they work (often times together), what keeps them functioning their best, and what elements are destructive to the mind and/or body. This class will allow students to make better lifestyle choices: decisions that help determine how long you live and how happy they will be. Additionally, we will explore the actions of peers, be they helpful or hurtful, and explore how each student might best respond in difficult social situations.

TOPICS

Total Wellness - An Overview

Intrapersonal factors: Emotional, Physical & Intellectual

Interpersonal factors: Family, Peers, Community, Spirituality

Balanced continuum

Emotional Health

Stress

Coping Strategies

Importance of Family

Self-esteem

Depression and Suicide

Anger

Nutrition & Fitness: Impact on the Mind

Relationships

Communication

Family

Peers

Community & Spirituality

Physical Development

Nutrition & Fitness: Impact on the Body

Eating Disorders

Puberty

Male & Female Reproductive Anatomy

Dating & Relationships

Disease & Injury Prevention

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Leading Causes of Death

Focus on Heart Disease

Drugs & Substance Abuse

Why People Use Drugs

The Emotional & Physical Pitfalls of Drugs

Vital Information about Common Drugs

Prevention: Social Skills, Problem Solving & Decision Making

8^th Grade

EIGHTH GRADE HEALTH

Maintaining emotional and physical health permits all of us, regardless of age, the best chance to achieve our life goals. This class will provide you with the fundamentals of understanding your mind and body: how they work (often times together), what keeps them functioning their best, and what elements are destructive to the mind and/or body. This class will allow you to make better lifestyle choices: decisions that help determine how long you live and how happy you will be. Additionally, we will explore the actions of those around you, be they helpful or hurtful, and explore how you might best respond in difficult social situations.

TOPICS:

Total Wellness - An Overview

Intrapersonal factors: Emotional, Physical & Intellectual

Interpersonal factors: Family, Peers, Community, Spirituality

Balance

Emotional Health

Stress

Coping Strategies

Importance of Family

Self-esteem

Depression and Suicide

Anger

Nutrition & Fitness: Impact on the Mind

Relationships

Communication

Family

Peers

Community & Spirituality

Physical Development

Nutrition & Fitness: Impact on the Body

Eating Disorders

Human Sexuality

Dating & Relationships

Disease & Injury Prevention

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Basic First Aid

Lifestyle Risk Reduction

Drugs & Substance Abuse

Why People Use Drugs

The Emotional & Physical Pitfalls of Drugs

Vital Information about Common Drugs

Prevention: Social Skills, Problem Solving & Decision Making

. Intervention, Treatment & Recovery

Upper School

Two semester-long, courses are required in grades 9 and 10. These courses are designed to further extend students’ understanding of topics introduced and discussed in middle school health, with a more thorough exploration of stress, mental illness, sexually transmitted infection, and other subjects more suited for high school students.

9^th Grade

NINTH GRADE HEALTH

Maintaining health, both emotional and physical, helps us throughout our entire lives. Making healthy, informed choices is vital to maintaining health. Understanding how the mind and body work and how to keep them functioning at their highest level are elements of this course. Through lectures, discussions, and videos students learn ways to achieve this goal.

TOPICS

Adjusting to High School

Social Issues

School Work

Self Esteem Issues

Self Esteem

Dealing with anger

Communication

Stress

Symptoms

Coping Skills

Mental Illness

Overview

Symptoms and Treatment

Bi Polar Disease

Schizophrenia

Anxiety Disorders

Eating Disorders

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Major Depression

Suicide

Post Traumatic Stress

Borderline Personality Disorder

Social Issues of Mental Illness

Nutrition

Overview

Healthy Eating Habits

Dangers of Fast Foods

Vitamins and Minerals

Fitness

Drug Abuse

Overview-Information on Drugs

Tobacco

Media Influence

Prevention

Decision Making

Peer Influence

10^th Grade

TENTH GRADE HEALTH

Maintaining health, both emotional and physical helps us throughout our entire lives. Making healthy, informed choices is vital to maintaining good health. Understanding how your mind and body work and how to keep them functioning at their highest level are elements of this course. Through lectures, discussion, videos and speakers, we will learn ways to achieve this goal.

TOPICS

Introduction

Overall good health and healthy habits

"Life Style" Diseases

Cardiac Disease

Anatomy of the heart

Pathway of Blood

Hypertension

Taking Blood Pressures

Asthma

Cancer

Lung and Breast

Infections

Bacterial

Viral

Healthy Immune Systems

Prevention

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Overview

Symptoms and Treatment

HIV-AIDS

The Importance of Abstinence

Gender Identity

Social Issues of HIV-AIDS

Teen Pregnancy

Healthy Relationships

Sexual Harassment

Dating Violence

Drug Information

Overview

Characteristics of each drug

The disease of Addiction

Club Drugs and safety

The importance of addiction free living

Treatment and Recovery

Problem Solving and Decision Making

11^th Grade

No Health classes are offered in eleventh grade. Required health courses are taken in prior school years, ending in tenth grade.

12^th Grade

No Health classes are offered in twelfth grade. Required health courses are taken in prior school years, ending in tenth grade.

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