Description of Course:

Lifetime Nutrition and Wellness is a laboratory course that allows students to use principles of lifetime wellness and nutrition to help them make informed choices that promote wellness as well as pursue careers related to hospitality and tourism, education and training, human services, and health sciences.

Principles of Education and Training is designed to introduce learners to the various careers available within the Education and Training Career Cluster®. Students use self-knowledge as well as educational and career information to analyze various careers within the Education and Training Career Cluster®. Students will develop a graduation plan that leads to a specific career choice in the student's interest area.

Human Growth is Human Growth and Development is an examination of human development across the lifespan with emphasis on research, theoretical perspectives, and common physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developmental milestones. The course covers material that is generally taught in a postsecondary, one-semester introductory course in developmental psychology or human development.

Lifetime Nutrition and Wellness:

Unit 1: Diet and Nutrition

Unit 2: Digestion and Metabolism

Unit 3: Balanced Diet

Unit 4 Mental Illness and Mental Health

Principles of Education:

Unit 1: History

Unit 2: 7 Habits of a successful Student

Unit 3: Characteristics of an Effective Teacher

Unit 4: Understanding Students' behavior

Human Growhth:

Unit 1: Foundation of Human Development

Unit 2 Stages of Human Growth and Development

Unit 3:Strategies Promoting Lifetime Human Development

Grading:

Each six weeks will consist of a minimum of 3 major grades and 8 daily grades. Galena Park ISD will provide communication of revised “grading” policies in the event of a transition to 100% remote learning.

Grades will be placed in the following categories:

Daily – 50%

Major – 50%

** on the syllabus denotes an assignment or outcome that will count as a Daily Grade.

**** on the syllabus denotes an assignment or outcome that will count as a Major Grade.