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Health
Course Cost: $270.00
Credit: .5Course Description:
In health education, students acquire the health information and skills necessary to become healthy adults and learn about behaviors in which they should and should not participate. Students develop skills that will make them health-literate adults. They gain a deeper understanding of the knowledge and behaviors to use to safeguard their health, particularly pertaining to health risks. Students are taught how to access accurate information that they can use to promote health for themselves and others. They use problem solving, research, goal setting, and communication skills to protect their health and the health of the community. [Chapter 115 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health Education-115.32.Health 1]High School Health Core Objectives:
Discuss the importance and role of various aspects of mental health in relation to wellness, and identify the characteristics of a mentally healthy person.Define social responsibility, identify ways that personal behaviors and health decisions affect others in the community, and practice skills that show consideration and respect for self, family, friends, and others.
Describe aspects of the modern family system, including major functions, factors that cause change, and elements that healthy families have in common.
Analyze the human life cycle, and relate all aspects to physical, social, and emotional health.
Analyze the major body systems, and relate function to personal wellness.
Examine the relationship among lifelong fitness, diet, nutrition, quality of life, and disease.
Analyze modern health problems including communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Evaluate and analyze consumer health issues, including consumer education and the role of health care providers/systems, and identify the influences of media and technology in these areas.
Identify the major factors that may lead to accidents, and describe basic first aid and response strategies that deal with emergency situations.
Describe and analyze the effects of substance abuse (drugs, alcohol, and tobacco) on the individual, the community, and society.
Identify the factors that lead to violence and develop strategies to prevent and avoid potentially violent and dangerous situations.
Describe, examine, and analyze human sexuality.
Course Activities: Content assessments, unit projects that include writing assignments requiring synthesis of unit content, additional unit activities including Internet research.
