Units to be covered in senior high school class:
Acceptance of personal responsibility for lifelong health.
Expectations:
1. Students will demonstrate ways in which they can enhance and maintain their health and well-being.
2. Students will understand and demonstrate behaviors that prevent disease and speed recovery from illness.
3. Students will practice behaviors that reduce the risk of becoming involved in potentially dangerous situations and react to potentially dangerous situations in ways that help to protect their health.
Respect for and promotion of the health of others.
Expectations:
4. Students will understand and demonstrate how to play a positive, active role in promoting the health of their families.
5. Students will understand and demonstrate how to promote positive health practices within the school and community, including how to cultivate positive relationships with their peers.
An understanding of the process of growth and development.
Expectations:
6. Students will understand the variety of physical, mental, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout life.
7. Students will understand and accept individual differences in growth and development.
8. Students will understand their developing sexuality, will choose to abstain from sexual activity, will learn about protecting their sexual health, and will treat the sexuality of others with respect.
Informed use of health-related information, products, and services.
Expectation:
9. Students will identify information, products, and services that may be helpful or harmful to their health.