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MCSD Health and Safety Curriculum
6th Grade
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Title of Planned Instruction: Health
Subject Area: Health, Safety, and Physical Education
Grade Level: Six
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: This course will enable students
to learn that health and wellness is related to their levels of
physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Required Time: One Year
Course Credit: 0.5
Major Text(s) and Resources: Teen Health, Course 1,
Glencoe, 1999 |
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| Names of District Subject Area Curriculum
Writing Committee: |
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George T. Bohn
Gerald L. Eisner
Jared L. Wagner |
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Lanielle D. Reese
Michelle E. True
Gabriel B. Zook |
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Date of Board Approval: March 27, 2003
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Strand:
Concepts of Health
Standard: 10.1
Grade/course: Health 6 |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
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Reinforce an understanding of the growth and development
changes that occur between childhood and adolescence, and
reiterate factors that can influence these changes. |
· Identify mental/emotional, social, and physical
health and how they interrelate.
· Identify physical, social, and mental/emotional
changes that occur between childhood and adolescence.
· Recognize hereditary and environmental factors that
influence health.
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-- Discussion
-- Objective test (written)
-- Class participation
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| B. |
Describe the function of certain body systems:
- Nervous
- Muscular
- Integumentary
- Skeletal
- Endocrine
- Reproductive
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· Explain how drug use, physical development, and
stress influence the function of the nervous, muscular,
skeletal, integumentary, endocrine, and reproductive systems.
· Identify the parts of the endocrine and
reproductive systems. |
-- Diagram
-- Quiz
-- Homework
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| C. |
Analyze nutritional concepts that impact health. |
Maintain a food diary for a specified time to evaluate the
following:
- Caloric content of foods
- Healthful food selections
- Food guide pyramid
- Nutrient intake
Identify the main ingredients in food products through label
reading, and compare nutritional values of different foods.
Recognize the number of calories in a pound and the amount of
energy required to lose, gain, or maintain a pound. |
-- Menu project |
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Apply factors that influence drug use and abuse. |
· Describe how peer influence, social acceptance, and
stress play a major role in drug use and abuse.
· Utilize effective decision-making skills and
consider consequences in order to prevent drug use and abuse.
· State the rules, regulations, and laws for
different types of drugs.
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-- Personal inventories
-- Decision-making scenarios
-- Written test
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| E. |
Identify and describe health problems that can occur
through communicable and non-communicable diseases (e.g.,
HIV/AIDS). |
· Identify the difference between communicable and
non-communicable diseases (e.g., AIDS, diabetes, cancer).
· Understand the need for and function of
immunizations and antibiotics.
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-- Worksheets
-- Written test
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Strand: Healthful Living
Standard: 10.2
Grade/course: Health 6 |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Explain the relationship between personal health practices
and individual well being. |
List steps required for good daily hygiene.
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-- Discussion
-- Teacher observation
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| B. |
Recognize and identify the relationship between
health-related information and consumer choices. |
Discriminate between generic and name brand
products.
· Recognize health quackery and avoid it.
· Recognize and list commonly used advertising
techniques.
· Explain the media’s effect on health and safety
issues. |
-- Advertisement analysis |
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| D. |
Describe and apply the steps in a decision-making process
to health and safety issues. |
Use the decision making process to solve a health-related
problem.
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-- Decision-making scenarios |
| E. |
Analyze environmental factors that impact health. |
Recognize the interrelationships between environmental factors
such as the following:
- Second-hand smoke
- Social influences
- Individual’s view of his/her environment
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-- Discussion
-- Debate
-- Survey
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Strand: Safety and Injury Prevention
Standard: 10.3
Grade/course: Health 6
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| Grade level
Objectives |
Performance
Incicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
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| B. |
Know appropriate emergency responses. |
· Identify building escape routes.
· Know the proper steps for the Heimlich Maneuver.
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-- Diagram and practice
-- Demonstration
-- Teacher observation
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| C. |
Describe strategies to avoid or manage conflict and
violence. |
Utilize anger management, confliction resolution, and
negotiation skills to avoid or manage conflict.
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-- Quiz
-- Debate
-- Checklist
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District Recommended Instructional Approach For the
Course
To Drive Teacher’s Instructional Activities |
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- Lecture
- Discussion
- Small group activities
- Role playing
- Games
- Personal inventories
- Guest speakers
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- Written work
- Audiovisual presentations
- Technology
- Review activities
- Projects
- Videos
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