Area #2: Developing Good Personal Hygiene

• Proper body care

• Importance of good, healthy hygiene

• Relationship between healthcare and personal health

• Relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

Area #4: Nutrition

• Influence of culture, health status, age, and access to healthy foods on healthy eating habits

• Skills and healthy behaviors to support adolescents in losing, gaining or maintaining healthy weights

• Assessment of one’s own nutritional health

• Ways to improve health and performance

• Foods impact on overall health

Area #5: Physical Fitness

• Short and long-term impacts of regular physical activity

• Recognize that individuals have varying levels of physical abilities and ways to include all in physical activities

• Primary principles of training (FITT)

• Technology to support physical fitness

• Individual fitness plan

• Predicting how factors such as health status, body composition, interests, habits, healthy eating, anabolic steroids, and lifestyle impact fitness and health.

Area #6: Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco

• Negative effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco on the body

• Rules, laws and policies regarding the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco

• The impact of peers and social setting on positive and negative outcomes of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use

Area 1: Personal and Mental Health (Part 1)

• 4 aspects of health and the impact on wellness

• Appropriate health care and connection to overall health

• Preventative health care’s impact on health

• The impact of genetics, family history, personal health practices, and environment on personal health

• Difference between health and wellness

Area 2: Personal and Mental Health (Part 2)

• Making sense of thoughts and feelings

• Emotional intelligence

• Stress management and resiliency

• Mental and emotional health

• Identity, values and beliefs

• Stress management strategies

• Self-image versus self-esteem

Area 3: Social and Sexual Health

• Healthy relationships with family, friends, and dating partners

• Good communication skills for healthy relationships both verbally/nonverbally and in-person/digitally

• Conflict resolution

• Coping strategies to deal with crisis, traumatic events and change

• Importance of relationships for physical, emotional and social health

• Functions of the family

• Differences between friendships, romantic, and sexual relationships

Area 4: Personal Growth and Development

• Intellectual, emotional and social events in various stages of life

• Chemical, physical, and hormonal changes of puberty

• Primary and secondary sex characteristics of puberty

• Male versus female reproductive systems (anatomy)

• Physical changes of males and females during puberty

• Importance of caring for reproductive systems (routine health procedures such as breast self examination and testicular examination)

Area 5: Pregnancy and Parenting

• Intellectual, emotional, and social development in each stage of life

• Prenatal development from fertilization to birth

• The signs and symptoms of pregnancy

• Prenatal practices for healthy pregnancy

Area 6: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

• Drug abuse and the impact on life

• Effects of drug abuse on society

• Mental, social, and emotional consequences of drug use and/or alcohol use

• Hazardous health impacts of drinking, smoking or doing drugs

• Decision-making regarding drug use and nonuse

• Moderate drinking, heavy drinking and binge drinking

• Role of alcohol in accidents and violence

• The connection between alcohol use and a use disorder

• Types of nicotine products

• Effects of nicotine on the body

• Health risks of vaping

• Mental, social, and legal consequences of vaping

• Hazardous effects of marijuana on the body

Area 7: Dependency. Substance Disorder, and Treatment

• The impact of drug abuse on society and people’s lives

• Factors that influence young people’s beliefs about alcohol, tobacco and other drug use

• Ways to prevent alcohol, drug, and tobacco use

• Treatments for alcohol, drug and tobacco use disorders

• Services available to help individuals with alcohol, drug, and tobacco use disorders

Area 8: Health Conditions, Diseases and Medicines

• The impact of various types of pollution on the environment

• The influence of the environment on health

• Federal and State laws the protect the environment

• Strategies to conserve energy and natural resources to promote greener living

• Air pollution and water pollution

• Chemicals that are harmful to the environment

Unit 1: Personal Growth and Development

• Changes that occur during female and male puberty and adolescence

• Gender identity versus gender expression

• Mental abilities changes during adolescence

• Major categories of adolescent risk behavior

• Social and emotional changes during adolescence

• Additional responsibilities to prepare for adulthood

• Peer pressure and impact on opinions and attitudes

• Benefits of sexual abstinence and birth control

• Facts about various contraceptive methods

• Comparison of various beliefs regarding sexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender equity

Unit 2: Nutrition

• Healthy eating

• Health problems and poor eating relationship

• Foods, food groups and nutritional values

• Planning a balanced diet

Unit 3: Medicines and Drugs

• Risks and consequences involved with drugs, their use and abuse

• Applying knowledge and skills to making healthy decision regarding drug use

• Signs and stages of addiction

• How one becomes addicted to drugs

• Drugs’ effect on the body and brain

• Factors that influence drugs’ effects

• Effects of using illegal drugs

• Ways to deal with pressures surrounding illegal drug use

• Impact of addiction on the family, self and society

Unit 4: Emotional Health

• The effects of stress on the body

• Ways to handle stress

• Stress management plans

• Stages of grief

• Healthy ways to grieve

• Stress and stressors

• Warning signs of stress

• Myths and perceptions surrounding death and dying

• Healthcare support of people experiencing grief

Unit 5: Social and Sexual Health

• Impact of values on relationships

• The impact of personal lifestyle habits and genetics on sexual development

• Way pregnancy, childbirth and parenting change a person’s life

• Development of independence, self-identity, and personal value during adolescence

• Establishing boundaries and rules

• Parts of male and female reproductive system

• Stages and signs of various STI (sexually transmitted infections)

• Relationship between risky behaviors and STIs

• Abstinence to prevent pregnancy and STIs (100% effective)

Unit 6: Community Health Services and Support

• How to avoid and reduce health risks

• Influences on behaviors and decision-making

• Assertive communication skills for a healthy lifestyle

• Different ways cultures have responded to individuals with disabilities and provided inclusive settings

• Effect of mental illness on overall well being

• Determining degree of risk of intentional or unintentional injury to self or others

• Building interpersonal communication strategies

• Determine when an adult or professional intervention may be necessary

• Resources, programs, and organizations that promote health

• Impact of mental illness on physical, social and emotional well being

Unit 7: Preventing and Responding to Violence/Personal Safety

• Warning signs of unhealthy relationships, abusive relationships, and dating violence

• The impact of technology/social media on relationships and individuals

• Cyberbullying, bullying, harassment, hazing

• Strategies for bullying prevention

• Types of abuse

• Effects of child abuse/reporting child abuse

• Cycle of abuse

• Strategies for preventing abuse

• School violence prevention

• Ways to help prevent violence

Unit 8: Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS/HIV

• Strategies to prevent teens from being in a situation that will lead to spread of an STI

• Permanent health risks of STI transmission

• Causes, symptoms and treatments of various STIs

• Community resources to help with testing and treatment of STIs

• Common methods used to diagnose and treat common diseases and health conditions in young adults such as hepatitis, STIs, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, HPV, testicular cancer

• Local, state and national efforts to prevent and control disease and health conditions

• Use of refusal, assertiveness skills, and negotiation when responding to peer pressure, disagreements or conflicts