Health Education at Lexington High School provides cognitive information, behavioral skills and affective experiences that enable students to face a range of life situations, choices and consequences. Adolescent Health Issues I and II represent a “living curriculum” that is continually refined and updated. By incorporating current issues in the news, the course is responsive to changing times, current happenings and developing concerns relevant to adolescent development, health, and safety.
Common threads throughout all subject areas include decision-making, accountability, abstinence, communication, societal and personal responsibility, recognition and reinforcement of family values and self-esteem. A strong emphasis is placed on developing and applying critical thinking skills to real life challenges.
Individual lessons in this course promote an understanding of a particular subject or concept and are designed to build on one another while reinforcing the over all common threads throughout each lesson. For example: a class discussion focusing on drug and alcohol use and abuse might include an examination of the following issues: values, choices, friendship, peer pressure, risk-taking, decision-making, consequences, dating violence, abstinence, accidents, injury, death.
The LHS Health Education course content is supported by data from the Lexington and MA Youth Risk Behavior Surveys and reflects the National Health Education Standards and the Massachusetts Health Curriculum Frameworks. Click Here for STATE standards. Click Here for NATIONAL STANDARDS.
Adolescent Health Issues II meets two times a week during semester one. Adolescent Health Issues I meets two times a week during semester two. If you have any questions or concerns, we welcome your emails and phone calls. Please see our information located on the Teacher Page.
“Clearly no knowledge is more crucial than knowledge about health.
Without it, no other life goal can be successfully achieved.”
~ Ernest Bayer, Carnegie Foundation