Course Offerings

  • HEALTH

    ACCEPTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12

    PRE-REQUISITE: None

    COURSE SEQUENCE/PATHWAY: Students who have successfully completed Health will have met the pre-requisite for California high school graduation requirements.

    DESCRIPTION: The Health course is organized to create a relevant, consistent, attractive, and accurate high school course that is both motivating toward learning and easy to comprehend. The units of the course are presented in such a way as to make them highly relevant to the needs of today’s high school-age students. Eight units and a variety of activities for student involvement constitute the organization of the Health course. Each unit has a complete review and evaluation program. The units are as follows:

    A HEALTHY FOUNDATION

    • Health, wellness, and environment
    • Building health skills
    • Being a health literate consumer

    PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND NUTRITION

    • Fitness
    • Nutrition and guidelines for healthy eating
    • Maintaining a healthy weight

    MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

    • Achieving good mental health
    • Managing stress and anxiety
    • Suicide prevention
    • Effects of media

    PROMOTING SAFE AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

    • Foundations of healthy relationships
    • Peer relationships
    • Violence prevention

    PERSONAL CARE AND BODY SYSTEMS

    • Personal care
    • Skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems
    • Cardiovascular and respiratory systems

    GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

    • Prenatal development and birth
    • Adolescence and the life cycle

    TOBACCO, ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS

    • The effects of tobacco
    • The effects of alcohol
    • Medicines and drugs

    DISEASES AND DISORDERS

    • Communicable diseases
    • Sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS
    • Non-communicable diseases and disabilities

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    TEXBOOK AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS:

    • Health, Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2004
    • topic-related videos
    • guest speakers
    • handouts