Health

The following learning targets represent the major concepts studied and assessed in this course. 

Semester Class: 

Unit 1: Introduction to Health and Wellness 

• Each dimension of health: physical, emotional, social, and intellectual. 
• You can raise your level of health and wellness by acquiring knowledge and skills that can help make healthful choices. 
• Having risk factors increases a person's chances of developing a disease or disorder or experiencing an injury. 

Unit 2: Nutrition and Food Choices 

• What you eat determines whether or not your body will have the nutrients it needs to stay healthy. 
• Maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of wellness. 
• A healthy weight for one person may not be a healthy weight for someone else. 
• Having a distorted body image can lead some people to develop eating disorders. 

Unit 3: Fitness and Personal Health 

• What you eat will determine whether your body will have the nutrients it needs to stay healthy. 
• Maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of wellness. 
• A healthy weight for one person may not be a healthy weight for someone else. 
• Having a distorted body image can lead some people to develop eating disorders. 

Unit 4: Understanding and Avoiding Hazardous Substances 

• Tobacco products contain an addictive substance that makes it difficult for people to quit using tobacco. 
• Teenagers who abuse alcohol raise their risk of serious injury or death from accidents, alcohol poisoning, and violence. 
• People who abuse drugs-including some over-the-counter medicines-increase their risk of health problems, and death.

Unit 5: Mental and Emotional Health and Wellness 

• Your emotional and intellectual health impacts the other dimensions of your health.
• Learning how to recognize and manage your emotions, including your reactions to stress, will help you improve your health and wellness. 
• Mental illnesses and disorders are like physical illnesses and disorders-they can be diagnosed and treated, often successfully. 

Unit 6/7: Diseases and Disorders/Human Life Cycle 

• Diseases and disorders are classified as infectious or non communicable. Infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms and non communicable diseases are not. 
• Your body has a number of defenses that protect you from developing diseases and disorders. 
• Although you can't prevent yourself from developing all diseases and disorders, you can take steps to lower your risk of getting many of them. 
• Sexual reproduction involves the combination of genetic material from a male and a female. 
• During pregnancy, a woman needs medical care to ensure the health of the newborn. 
• Every stage of the human lifecycle- from infancy to older adulthood- is associated with the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social changes. 

Unit 8: CPR/Health Foundations 

• Students will be able to utilize hands only CPR in situations when needed. 
• Students will be able to diagnose a patient with preventable health risks/diseases.