6th Grade
Health Education


Nutrition and Fitness

Alcohol, Tobacco
and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Mental and Emotional Health

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Identify the four areas of health related fitness

  • Identify the major muscles in the body

  • List the benefits of daily physical activity

  • Identify the three macronutrients and the three micronutrients

  • Recognize the difference between anaerobic/aerobic exercise

  • Know the percentages needed for each macronutrient

  • Apply the F.I.T.T. principle to daily activities

  • Know the effects of macronutrients and micronutrients on the body

  • Find your heart rate; compare to age specific target heart rate

  • Apply nutrition and exercise habits to daily life

  • Perform mathematical equation to find maximum heart rate

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Identify 4 categories of drugs: inhalants, hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants

  • Formulate and identify ways to deal with peer pressure

  • Identify 2 classifications of drugs, according to the law

  • Identify ways substance abuse affects your life and others

  • Explain the difference between use and abuse

  • Apply knowledge of drugs through presentation

  • List the ways drugs enter the body

  • Recognize physical effects of tobacco smoke on the body

  • Identify difference between OTC and RX drugs

  • Analyze the facts of tobacco use

  • Identify warning signs of drug abuse

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Assess conflicts as they arise

  • Identify healthful ways to deal with anger

  • Identify difference between physical, emotional, verbal violence

  • Identify the difference between aggressive, passive, and assertive behavior

  • Identify the difference between interpersonal violence and interpersonal conflict

  • Evaluate behavior in Cyberspace

Growth and Development

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Comprehend and apply appropriate vocabulary related to puberty, abstinence and HIV/AIDS

  • Classify steps for ovulation and menstruation

  • Recognize the process and steps for conception

  • Identify changes that occur to males and females during puberty

  • Identify how HIV is spread and not spread

  • Identify female and male reproductive systems

  • Identify ways that the HIV infection can be prevented