Livingston County Curriculum Document

SUBJECT: Practical Living/Career Unit-Health Grade: 8 Studies Big Idea: Personal Wellness (Health Education) Grade 8 Wellness is maximum well-being, or total health. Personal Wellness is a combination of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social well-being. It involves making choices and decisions each day that promote an individual’s physical well-being, the prevention of illnesses and diseases, and the ability to remain, physically, mentally, spiritually, socially and emotionally healthy. Academic Expectations 2.29 Students demonstrate skills that promote individual well-being and healthy family relationships. 2.31 Students demonstrate the knowledge and skills they need to remain physically healthy and to accept responsibility for their own physical well-being. 2.32 Students demonstrate strategies for becoming and remaining mentally and emotionally healthy. 3.2 Students demonstrate the ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle. 4.1 Students effectively use interpersonal skills. 4.4 Students demonstrate the ability to accept the rights and responsibilities for self and others. 5.1 Students use critical thinking skills such as analyzing, prioritizing, categorizing, evaluating, and comparing to solve a variety of problems in real-life situations. 5.4 Students use a decision-making process to make informed decisions among options. Duration Program of Studies Learning Target Essential Critical Vocabulary Connection to Resources/Activities (amount of (POS) Questions/HOT Program (Include field trips and time) Skills and Concepts Questions Review books required to be read) PL-8-PW-S-PPH1 How do behavior Abstinence Students will evaluate choices affect communication methods used in your body Refusal Skills advocating for systems? personal, family and HIV/AIDS community health How can decisions I make now affect Sexually Transmitted PL-8-PW-S-PPH2 Students will my short and long Diseases understand that that term health? the importance of assuming Risks/Consequences responsibility for How does personal health technology impact Prescription Drugs behaviors: my wellness? a) predict how Inhalants decisions regarding Why is it health important to behaviors practice good have health habits? consequence s for self and others b) explain the benefits (preventing pregnancy, preventing HIV/STDs, maintaining self-esteem) and strategies (e.g., using refusal skills, talking with parents, doctors, counselors) of abstaining from sexual activity

PL-8-PW-S-PPH3 Students will evaluate how an individual’s behaviors and choices of diet, exercise and rest affect the body PL-8-PW-S-GD1 Adolescence Students will apply strategies and skills needed to obtain Endocrine System personal health goals during adolescence Hormones and describe the physical, social and Peer Pressure emotional changes (e.g., growth spurts, peer influence, self- Mood Swings confidence, mood swings) that occur Growth Spurts during adolescence

PL-8-PW-S-GD2 Self-Confidence Students will explain basic Pregnancy structures and functions of the reproductive system as it relates to the human life cycle

PL-8-PW-S-SMEH1 Respect Students will demonstrate social interaction skills by: Self-Advocacy a) using appropriate Cooperation means to express needs, wants Communication and feelings b) using and Empathy explaining the Friendship importance of effective social Problem Solving interaction skills (e.g., Peer Pressure respect, self- advocacy, Conflict cooperation, communicati on, Bullying identifying and being Conflict Resolution open to different perspectives Anger Management and points of view, Refusal Skills empathy, friendship) Strategies c) recommendin g and justifying Mediator effective strategies Mediation (e.g., problem solving, Time Management decision making, Relaxation Techniques refusal skills, anger management, conflict resolution) for responding to stress, conflict, peer pressure and bullying d) interpreting how individuals impact the effective functioning of groups PL-8-PW-S-SMEH2 Students will demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems individually and collaboratively PL-8-PW-S-FCH1 Lifestyle Students will analyze how personal health, health behaviors and Environment use of health services can be influenced by: Impact a) family traditions/val Media ues b) technology and media Values messages c) cultural Beliefs beliefs d) physical, social and emotional environments e) information from peers PL-8-PW-S-PPH3 Choices Students will evaluate how an individual’s behaviors and Habits choices of diet, exercise and rest Addition affect the body Over the counter PL-8-PW-S-ATOD1 Students will drugs demonstrate an understanding of the Prescription Drugs use and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and Marijuana other drugs by: a) distinguishing between Illegal Drugs legal (e.g., over the Stimulants counter, prescription drugs) and Long term effects illegal drugs (e.g., Symptoms inhalants, marijuana, Prevention stimulants, depressants) and Depression describing how their Anxiety usage affects the body systems Eating disorders b) describing the Uncooperative immediate/lo ng-term effects of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug usage and analyzing their impact on health c) describing resources available to individuals seeking treatment or counseling for negative behaviors or addictions

PL-8-PW-S-DP1 Pattern of Students will Transmission demonstrate an understanding of diseases by: Symptoms a) describing symptoms, Treatment causes, patterns of transmission, Communicable prevention and Non-Communicable treatments of communicabl Tuberculosis e diseases (colds, flu, mononucleos Cardiovascular is, hepatitis, Diseases HIV/STD, tuberculosis) Obesity b) describing symptoms, Emphysema causes, patterns of Diabetes transmission, prevention and Cancer treatments of non- Asthma communicabl e diseases (cancer, Hepatitis cardiovascula r disease, Mononucleosis diabetes, obesity, Pathogens asthma, emphysema) c) investigate Immune System family history, environment, Personal Hygiene lifestyle and other risk factors Environment related to the cause or prevention of disease and other health problems

PL-8-PW-S-DP2 Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to maintain a healthy body by: a) analyzing how health is influenced by the interaction of body systems b) describing ways pathogens from the environment (e.g., air, food, people) enter the body and explaining how body defenses fight pathogens c) explaining how personal hygiene practices affect physical, mental/emoti onal and social health; explaining how personal health habits (e.g., hand washing, care of teeth and eyes, sun protection) affect self and others in the prevention and spread of disease d) identifying health care providers and describing reasons for preventive care PL-8-PW-S-SMEH3 Coping skills Students will identify common Goal setting social and emotional problems Time management (aggression, anxiety, depression, Preferences grief) and describe self-management Anxiety and coping strategies (goal Aggression setting, refusal skills, decision Grief making and time management) for Depression addressing these problems PL-8-PW-S-ATOD1 Resources Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Treatment use and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and Counseling other drugs by: a) distinguishing Legal/illegal drugs between legal (e.g., over the counter, prescription drugs) and illegal drugs (e.g., inhalants, marijuana, stimulants, depressants) and describing how their usage affects the body systems b) describing the immediate/lo ng-term effects of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug usage and analyzing their impact on health describing resources available to individuals seeking treatment or counseling for negative behaviors or addictions