Health 5

Units

Unit Essential Questions Content Skills and Processes Multicultural Dimension
Human Growth and Development

• Why do I look like my parents?
• How do cultures define being male or female?
How do bodies change in puberty?

*Heredity
*Reproductive cells (sperm and egg)
*Early stages of puberty
*Human reproduction

*Identify what is heredity among humans (Counselor/HR)
*Explain how egg and sperm as reproductive cells (Counselor/HR)
*Recognize the early changes of puberty (Counselor/HR)
*Identify the basic concept of human reproduction (Counselor/HR)
*Explain how life choices affect your personal growth (Counselor/HR)
-diseases
-social relationships

Safe and Healthy Environment

• How do people get infections?
• How do I stay safe?
• What do I do when a friend hurts themselves or is really sick?

*Hygiene
*Food preparation and sanitation
*Infectious diseases and prevention
*Road safety
*Safe play
*Health safety hazards at home, school and in the community
*Emergency situations
*911
*Basic first aid

*Identify and practice age appropriate personal hygiene (HR)
*Practice safety and sanitation in food preparation and storage (HR)
*Demonstrate knowledge of infectious diseases and their prevention (including HIV, AIDS: virus, causes and symptoms) (Science/HR)
*Demonstrate basic first aid for bleeding, burns, bites, stings, heat/cold related illnesses, choking (PE/HR)
*Develop a home evacuation plan (PE/HR)
*Know and demonstrate water safety (PE/HR)
*Locate environmental hazards in the community

Nutrition

• How do I stay happy and healthy?
•How can I make healthy food choices?
•Where can I find information about healthy foods?
•How does my body process food components? (fats, fiber, calories, etc.)
•How can I prepare and store food safely?

*Food choice and physical activity add to physical and emotional well being
*Personal diet record
*Food pyramid review
*Enhancement of personal well being
*Nutritional value of food
*Food preparation and storage

*Identify food choices and physical activities which promote or detract from physical and emotional well being (PE)
*Analyze a personal diet record and design a nutritious plan using the food pyramid (PE)
*Compare nutritional qualities of a variety of foods (PE)
*Select foods that would be good choices in given situations (PE)
*Practice safety and sanitation in food preparation and storage (PE)
*Help prepare and try a variety of health snack foods (PE)
*Predict outcomes of eating plans (PE)

Informed Consumer

• What does advertising tell me?
• Where can I find information about health?

*Influence of advertising
*Influence of family and peers
*Media messages
*Health information resources
*Health information resources in the community

*Identify how advertising seeks to influence thoughts, feelings, behaviors (Art/Counselor/HR)
*Analyze the influences that information from family, peers, and advertising have on personal health (Art/Counselor/HR)
*Analyze messages from media on drug/alcohol abuse and sexuality (cigarette ads/alcohol ads) (Art/Counselor/HR)
*Access a variety of resources that provide reliable health information (Art/Counselor/HR)
*Identify valid health information resources within the community (Art/Counselor/HR)

Healthy Relationships

• How can I be a good member of the community?
• What do I do when a friend wants me to try smoking/drinking/drugs?
• What makes a good friend?
• How should I act?

*Self-control techniques
*Unique characteristics of self, family, culture
*Socially appropriate language in the school community
*Handling peer pressure
*Conflict resolution
*Learn from mistakes
*Personal responsibility and consequences of behavior
*Characteristics of friendship
*Family and community values
*Manners
*Communication skills

*Practice self-control techniques (Counselor/HR)
*Recognize and celebrate unique characteristics of oneself, one's family, and one's culture (Counselor/HR)
*Understand what is socially appropriate language in the school community (Counselor/HR)
*Identify peer pressure and demonstrate positive techniques to handle it (tobacco, drugs, alcohol) (Counselor/HR)
*Demonstrate simple conflict resolution skills (Counselor/HR)
*Discriminate negative/positive refusal skills (Counselor/HR)
*Demonstrate the ability to learn from mistakes (Counselor/HR)
*Accept responsibility for one's actions (Counselor/HR)
*Recognize consequences (Counselor/HR)
*Identify the characteristics of friendships (Counselor/HR)
*Understand basic family and community values: responsibility, respect, caring, integrity, self discipline, joie de vivre (Counselor/HR)
*Recognize that put-downs and cruelty are inappropriate (Counselor/HR)
*Learn and practice socially appropriate manners (Counselor/HR)

Unique characteristics of self, family, and culture

Controlling Health Risks

• How do I stay safe?
• What are dangerous situations that I need to stay away from?
• Where do I go for help in a dangerous situation?
• What do I do when I feel stress?

*Dangerous driving situations
*Consequences of risk taking behavior
*Behavior of intoxicated person
*Communicable diseases
*Stress and individual reaction
*Hazards of unsafe driving
*Consequences from dangerous situations
*Mood and depression

*Identify potentially dangerous driving situations (HR)
*Understand consequences in risk taking behavior (HR)
*Recognize the behavior of an intoxicated person (HR)
*Identify risk behaviors that spread communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS) (Science)
*Identify what stress is and your reactions to it (HR)
*Create strategies to reduce or cope with stress (HR)
*Demonstrate how to reach out for help when you're feeling threatened (call parents for ride if in danger) (HR)
*Identify dangerous situations and how to avoid them (HR)
*Recognize that unsafe driving can be hazardous (HR)
*Recognize that serious injury can result from dangerous situations (HR)
*Understand and recognize the affects of mood swings and depression (HR)