Health Syllabus, Grading, & Expectations

Family and Community Health Personal Health and Wellness

Instructor- Connie Foster-Moss (Coach Moss)

Course Description:

Students will complete a chapter/unit of the digital health curriculum each week.
Each unit will have multiple slideshows, quizzes, worksheets, key terms and videos
that correspond to the subject for the week. Students will also go outside when the
online course work allows for it (and weather cooperates) so that they can improve
their physical and mental wellness.

Textbook: Essentials of Health Edition 3

(click on the title below to open the text)

Course Goals and Outcomes:

○ The health curriculum will address various competencies addressed by the South

Carolina Academic Standards

■ Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

■ Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology,

and other factors on health behaviors.

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and

services to enhance health

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to

enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making to enhance health.

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and

avoid or reduce health risks.

■ Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and

community health.

Course Outline/Pacing/Scope and Sequence:

Students will work throughout the semester to complete the Online Health

Curriculum, which covers health and wellness, risk factors, nutrition, body

weight/composition, body image, physical fitness, sleep, hygiene and healthcare,

tobacco, alcohol, medication and drugs, infectious and noncommunicable diseases,

mental/emotional health, stress, and conflict management.

Classroom Expectations:

○ Chromebook is charged and ready for use daily.

○ Works diligently and completes all classwork each day.

○ Interacts with the class, participates in discussion.

○ Follows instructions, and is prepared for the next day’s activity by paying attention

to the plan that is discussed at the end of the previous day.

Grading Policy/Practices:

○ Student progress will be cumulatively assessed each nine weeks based on the

following methods of evaluation.

○ Daily assignments/Class Participation 40%

○ Unit Tests (Written) 60%

Late Work Policy:

10 points off per day, max of 60 if turned in by end of unit, max of 50 if turned in

after the unit

Missed Work/Make-Up Work Policy:

Check Google Classroom, communicate with the instructor about what work was

missed and when it should be turned in by. When in doubt, plan on 1 missed day

means the work is due within one day of returning to school.