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MCSD Health and Safety Curriculum
8th Grade
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Title of Planned Instruction: Health
Subject Area: Health, Safety, and Physical Education
Grade Level: Eight
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, and that informed
choices are linked to improved health.
Required Time: One Year
Course Credit: 0.5
Major Text(s) and Resources: Teen Health, Course 3,
Glencoe, 1999 |
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| Names of District Subject Area Curriculum
Writing Committee: |
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Amy K. Bergstrom
George T. Bohn
Gerald L. Eisner
Cindy B. Harvey |
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Date of Board Approval: March 27, 2003
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Strand:
Concepts of Health
Standard: 10.1
Grade/course: Eight |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Analyze the physical,
mental, and social factors that impact growth and development between
adolescence and adulthood. |
Demonstrate an understanding of the health triangle in
relationship to the following:
- Self esteem
- Personal relationships (e.g., dating, friendships, peer
pressure)
- Physical maturation processes
- Risk factors (e.g., physical inactivity, substance abuse,
intentional/uninten-tional injuries, dietary patterns)
- Abstinence
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-- Personal inventories
-- Decision-making models
-- Folder project
-- Checklist
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| B. |
Analyze the interdependence existing among the body systems.
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Relate the function of the respiratory, digestive, immune, and
reproductive systems to physical development and personal
lifestyle choices. |
-- Diagram
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| C. |
Analyze factors that
impact nutritional choices of adolescents. |
Identify cause and effect relationship between daily food choices
(e.g., cost, calorie content, serving size, availability). |
-- Project |
| D. |
Analyze prevention and intervention strategies in relation to adolescent and
adult drug use:
- Decision-making/situation avoidance
- Refusal skills
- Goal setting
- Professional assistance (e.g., medical, counseling, support groups)
- Rules, regulations, and laws
- Media influence
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· Demonstrate an understanding of basic decision making/
situation avoidance and refusal skills.
· Evaluate the importance of setting goals for the future.
· Identify available sources of assistance.
· Examine drug rules, regulations, and laws.
· Identify common media influences relating to advertising.
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-- Decision-making model
-- Written test
-- Small group work
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| E. |
Identify the factors that
impact health maintenance and disease prevention. |
Analyze how personal choice, disease and genetics can impact
health maintenance and disease prevention:
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- STD/HIV/AIDS
- Stroke
- Heart disease
- Drug use
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-- Written test
-- Personal inventories
-- Projects |
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Strand: Healthful Living
Standard: 10.2
Grade/course: Health 8 |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Identify and
describe health care products and services that impact
adolescent health practices. |
Explore choices available in using the following:
- Personal hygiene products
- Medical services
- Over-the-counter medicines
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-- Discussion
-- Small group activity
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| B. |
Recognize and
identify the relationship between health-related information and
consumer choices. |
· Demonstrate an
understanding of consumer choices related to the following:
tobacco products, weight control products, and sun exposure
products.
· Explain the media’s effect on health and safety issues. |
-- Written test
-- Discussion
-- Product comparison (generic/brand-name) |
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| D. |
Describe and apply
the steps in a decision-making process to health and safety
issues. |
Demonstrate the ability to use the decision-making process with
a current health or safety issue.
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-- Decision-making
model |
| E. |
Explain the
interrelationship between the environment and personal health. |
Recognize the interrelationships between environmental factors such
as the following:
- Sun exposure
- Outdoor agents (e.g., Lyme Disease, West Nile Disease)
- Home environment (e.g., second-hand smoke)
- Other social settings
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-- Written test |
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Strand: Safety and Injury Prevention
Standard: 10.3
Grade/course: Health 8
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| Grade level
Objectives |
Performance
Incicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Explain safe/unsafe
practices in the home, school, and community. |
Analyze the role of individual responsibility for safe practices and
injury prevention.
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-- Discussion
-- Checklist
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| B. |
Know appropriate
emergency responses. |
Describe and apply the strategies for emergency response in
the following areas:
- 911 calls
- Universal precautions
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-- Student demonstration
-- Role pla
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| C. |
Describe strategies to
avoid or manage conflict and violence. |
Demonstrate the ability to manage a problem using the following
techniques:
- Anger management
- Peer mediation
- Reflective listening
- Negotiation
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-- Partner work
-- Role play
-- Discussion
-- Modeling
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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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