Unit 3: You Are What You Eat

• Basic nutritional guidelines

• Personal values regarding nutrition

• Menu planning

• Nutritional needs of individuals

• Diet appropriate to your place in the the life cycle

• Illnesses associated with food handling

• Community members who prevent disease associated with food illness

• Department of Health: Community Organization

• Promoting nutritional health

Unit 4: Love Your Lungs

• Major organs of the respiratory system

• Healthy choices to remain tobacco free

• Proper breathing techniques

• Effect of poisonous gas on the respiratory system

• Major respiratory illnesses (asthma)

• Symptoms of lung disease

• Healthy versus diseased lungs

• Effects of smoking on the lungs

• Saying “no” to risky behaviors

• Community agencies connected to respiratory health

Unit 5: Those Crazy Mixed-Up Emotions

• Human emotions and effect on the body

• Power of emotions in influencing health

• Expressing emotion appropriately through communication skills

• Ways to handle strong emotions

• Positive skills for coping with stress, conflict, disappointment and failure

• Life events which trigger grief, depression, anxiety, guilt and fear

• Resources in the community to help with various life events

• Avoiding risky situations

• Sexual harassment as a crime

• Assertiveness and refusal skills

• Appropriate, inappropriate, confusing touches and secrets

• Abstinence as Prevention

Unit 6: Growing Up

• Endocrine system and major functions

• Glands and hormones

• Responsible behavior impacts growing up process

• Values, responsibilities and decisions related to growing up

• When various hormones don’t work properly in the body

• Biological differences between males and females

• Definition of adolescence

• Physical and emotional differences between males and females during puberty

• Empathy, respect and support during puberty

• Enhanced importance of hygiene during puberty

• Consumer products for hygiene and appearance

• Definition of maturity

• Health and safety values that demonstrate maturity

• Selecting life skills for various situations

• Peer pressure both positive and negative

• Identity (Gender Expression and Gender Identity defined)

Unit 7: Danger Ahead! The Truth About Drugs

• Terms drug use, misuse, and abuse

• Goal setting to prevent misuse and abuse of drugs

• Distinguish between proper and improper use of drugs

• Effects of drugs with misuse and abuse

• Reasons for abusing drugs

• How does abusing drugs impact a family

• Finding a trusted adult to discuss problems with

• Community resources to help with drug abuse

• Ways advertising can promote drug use (both print and electronic media)

• Consequences of using over-the-counter drugs for various health problems

• Why drugs won’t solve problems

• The life of someone who does drugs versus someone who does not

Unit 8: About Blood and Disease

• Circulatory system

• Healthful habits and importance to circulatory system

• Exercise to keep circulatory system healthy

• How risky behaviors impact the circulatory system

• Components of the blood and the job they do

• Responsibility of keeping immunization records

• Importance of immunization

• How HIV affects the immune system

• Using refusal skills to avoid risky situations

• How HIV can and cannot be transmitted

• Define compassion and empathy

• Making helping other a priority

• Expressing kindness

Unit 9: All of the Right Stuff!

• Role of advertising in consumer behavior

• Checking advertising claims

• How can ads be misleading

• How to be a wise consumer

• How values impact consumer behavior

• Unit price shopping, reading labels, and evaluating advertising

• Resources for judging the qualities of products

• Purchase of faulty or unhealthful products-who is responsible

• What is a budget, how it works and why it is important

Unit 10: Bones and Muscles

• Functions of the skeletal system

• Bone healing

• Habits to strengthen and maintain bones

• Consequences of poor diet and lack of exercise on the bones

• Muscle types and their functions

• Goal setting for exercise

• Proper versus improper ways to exercise

• Environments to perform various physical activities

• Respecting environmental conditions when performing physical activities

• Avoiding sport injuries and accidents

• Things that help to make body great: positive attitude, daily exercise, nutritious diet and good decision-making skills

• Sports and dance as a way to become familiar with other cultures