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Mental/Emotional Health (ME) |
- Evaluate individual values and goals that contribute to self-identity, self-esteem, and empathy
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- Identify and communicate feelings by practicing communication skills which promote personal well-being (I statements, body language, assertiveness, etc.)
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- Evaluate how emotions, values, behaviors, and taking responsibility for one’s self contribute to well-being
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- Review the positive and negative reactions to stress and evaluate and select stress management techniques that contribute to well-being
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- Identify the primary emotions that can be masked by anger and apply healthy strategies to get one’s needs met
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- Describe the impact and coping strategies of trauma, loss, and grief
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- Analyze the causes, symptoms, and treatment of depression and suicidality
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- Recognize mental health and behavioral disorders
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- Apply decision making process to peer pressure situations, including taking responsibility for passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors and their consequences
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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Family/Social/Interpersonal Health (FSI) |
- Analyze and evaluate influences of family, peers, and community as they relate to one’s personal identity
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- Analyze characteristics of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships (family, friends, love interests, acquaintances, and strangers)
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- Identify stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, bullying, and harassment and develop strategies to enhance empathy and tolerance
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- Identify the dynamics of domestic violence and dating violence, and characteristics of controlling behaviors
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- Develop strategies to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, and controlling behaviors (as aggressor and victim)
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- Demonstrate self-protection and empowerment strategies to promote well-being
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- Utilize assertive communication techniques as opposed to passive or aggressive
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- Utilize conflict resolution strategies
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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Injury/Disease Prevention (Substance Use/Safety) (ID) |
- Identify personal and interpersonal behaviors in daily life that may present a risk to health or safety, including proper safety equipment
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- Explain the importance of a family health profile, including history and habits, in assessing one’s own health risk
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- Explain the cause, methods of transmission, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of various common communicable diseases
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- List ways to reduce the risk of various chronic diseases and recognize ways to manage them emotionally and physically
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- Identify causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of STI/ HIV including the importance of abstinence
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- Introduce CPR skills and review basic First-Aid procedures
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- Distinguish between use and abuse of drugs (OTC, alcohol, tobacco, illegal, and current drug trends)
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- Classify different kinds of drugs and their effects on the body systems, including the brain.
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- Recognize the stages of addiction and contributing factors
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- Describe the impact of substance abuse on self, family, school, and community
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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Community/Consumer/Environmental Health (CCE) |
- Analyze media and its impact on emotions, thoughts, and actions (such as stereotypes, body image, sexuality, violence, drugs, alcohol, and food choices)
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- Evaluate marketing tactics and develop skills to become a smart consumer
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- Understand and practice personal internet safety (disclosing personal information, chat room dangers, cyber bullying)
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- Analyze current global health issues and evaluate their potential impacts on community and personal health
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- Identify home, school, and community service needs and opportunities to participate
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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Nutrition/Fitness (NF) |
- Define the skills necessary to promote healthy life-long eating habits
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- Understand how to balance caloric needs based on personal energy output
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- Utilize the Food Guide Pyramid to apply the concepts of moderation, balance, and variety to personal nutrition
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- Compare, contrast and evaluate food labels for nutritional value, prioritizing foods that are nutritionally dense over those with empty calories
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- Recognize nutritional diversity as it relates to health and diseases of various social, cultural, and ethnic groups
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- Critique various diet choices, fads, media influences and their health implications
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- Examine the complexity of factors that may lead to eating disorders, and then describe the symptoms, effects, and treatments (over-eating, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia)
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- Evaluate the impact of daily physical activity and exercise on lifelong health
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- Explain the components of fitness (cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and body composition) and how they relate to overall well-being
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- Analyze the risks of performance enhancing drugs
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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Growth and Development/ Hygiene (GH) |
- Understand the impact of regular health care examinations, proper grooming, sleep, and physical activity on health
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- Explore the connection between cognitive, social, emotional, and physical developments occurring during puberty and adolescence
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- Discuss the development of physical and emotional changes throughout the life cycle
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- Review the male and female reproductive systems, and their functions.
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- Recognize practices that protect reproductive health and prevent disease
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- Evaluate various pregnancy prevention methods, emphasizing the importance of abstinence and the impact of teenage pregnancy and parenting
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- Describe the effects of alcohol and other drugs on fetal development
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- Categorize community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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