Health Courses

Elementary 

Elementary health education consists of any combination of planned learning experiences that provide the opportunity to acquire information and the skills students need to make quality health decisions.  Health education helps students acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need for making health-promoting decisions, achieving health literacy, adopting health-enhancing behaviors, and promoting the health of others.  Comprehensive school health education includes curricula and instruction for students in K through grade 12 that address a variety of topics such as alcohol and other drug use and abuse, healthy eating/nutrition, mental and emotional health, personal health and wellness, physical activity, safety and injury prevention, sexual health, tobacco use, and violence prevention.

Junior High

Health 7

The seventh grade Health course is a quarter long skills-based curriculum that addresses the state and district standards. The core concepts that will be covered are: alcohol and other drug-use prevention, injury prevention, nutrition, physical activity, family life and sexuality, tobacco-use prevention, personal and consumer health and mental health. The skills that will be acquired within the core concepts are: health information products and resources, problem-solving and decision-making, effective communication, and personal and social responsibility. With these skills, the students will be able to make healthy decisions based on accurate and up-to-date knowledge about health concepts and acquisition of skills to promote health literacy.

Health 8

The eighth grade Health course is a quarter long continuing progression of the skills-based curriculum that is started at the seventh grade level. The skills-based curriculum addresses the state and district standards. The skills that will be acquired are: health information products and resources, problem-solving and decision-making, effective communication, and personal and social responsibility. With these skills, the students will be able to make healthy decisions based on accurate and up-to-date knowledge about health concepts and acquisition of skills to promote health literacy. As the skills are taught, the core concepts that will be covered are alcohol and other drug-use prevention, injury prevention, nutrition, physical activity, family life and sexuality, tobacco-use prevention, personal and consumer health, and mental/emotional health.

High School 

Health Literacy

This course provides a comprehensive, planned program to positively influence the knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviors of individuals relating to health, with a goal of leading students to a healthy lifestyle.  Topics covered include decision making, goal setting, communication, stress management, conflict resolution, suicide awareness and prevention, consumer and community health, communicable and chronic disease, environmental health, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, nutrition, injury prevention, and safety.  This course is a graduation requirement.