Unit 1: Community Safety

• Definition of community

• How does each department of the local government help to keep us safe

• Respect for people, rules and laws that protect you

• Following community regulations

• Peaceful ways to resolve conflict in a community

• Forms of violence and their causes

• Ways to avoid violence

• Decision making steps to avoid violence

• Increasing safety in the community

Unit 2: Let’s Talk Teeth

• Structure of human mouth including tongue and teeth

• Importance of smiling

• Smiling expressively

• Different types of human teeth

• Functions of the different teeth

• Protecting teeth from injury

• Effects of broken, missing and misplaced teeth

• Routines for proper dental care

• Assuming responsibility for your teeth

• Consumer dental products on the market

• Dental problems and solutions

• Dental professionals

• Regular dental check ups

Unit 3: The Digestive System

• Explain the digestive systems

• Factors that can harm the digestive system

• Good nutrition to prevent disease

• Choosing foods to promote overall health

• Factors that help versus hinder the digestive system

• Relationship between energy, calories, and nutrients

• Improving eating and exercise habits

• Personal planning for nutrition and exercise balance

• Influences on eating patterns

• Resisting unhealthy influences

• Consumer buying habits

• Food labels and products

• Careful versus careless buying habits

Unit 4: No Smoking!

• Chemicals in cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco

• Value of smoke-free lungs

• Substances that will harm the body

• Lungs of smoker versus non-smoker

• Physical and psychological effects of addiction to tobacco

• Respect for difficulty of breaking habits

• Why people start to smoke

• People that influence your behavior

• Supporting someone who is trying to quit smoking

• Resisting peer pressure to start smoking

• Tobacco advertisements and marketing techniques

• Effects of smoking and second-hand smoke on the community

• Ways to avoid second-hand smoke

Unit 5: It’s My Body

• Taking care of your body

• Using common sense in potentially harmful situations

• Calling for help when needed

• Dangerous versus harmless situations

• Critical thinking to keep our bodies safe

• Good decision making to keep ourselves safe

• Using refusal skills

• Different types of feelings and triggers for these feelings

• Valuing those you trust

• Pride, happiness, and friendliness

• Communication and actions in relationships

• Different kinds of abuse including sexual harassment

• Value of privacy

• Your right to privacy

• Being supportive and empathetic to those that have experienced abuse

Unit 6: Be Cool, Keep Clean!

• Hormones and how they affect body function

• Reproductive Organ Names

• Emotional changes of puberty

• How to care for your body as you grow and develop

• Controlling and expressing emotions

• What is good hygiene

• Self-grooming and hygiene

• Keeping clean

• Consequences of sharing of personal items

• Viruses, fungi, and bacteria that can create illness

• Hygiene for illness prevention

• Things that contribute to a healthy appearance

• Positive body-image

• Cosmetics versus hygiene products

Unit 7: Stay Drug Free, Build Your Assets

• Sources of pressure that lead to drug experimentation

• Positive values can overcome negative pressures

• Practice saying “no” in pressure situations

• Identify various drugs and classify them into categories

• Effects of various drugs

• Consequences of using drugs to solve problems

• Identifying personal goals

• Decision-making in being drug free

• Resources to help someone with a drug problem

• Using your resources versus going at it alone

• Consequences of not getting help with a drug problem

Unit 8: Puzzled About Germs

• Immune system and the ability to fight germs

• Respecting your body by having standards of self care

• Ways to build a healthy defense system

• Ways HIV is not transmitted

• Dangers of taking unhealthy risks

• Good personal hygiene to avoid communicable diseases

• Positive qualities in yourself and your friends

• Being a responsible person

• Resisting negative peer pressure

• Saying “no” to drugs and other risky behaviors

• How illness and disease affects a community

• Treating those with illness with kindness and dignity

• Terminal illness

• Appreciating Differences

Unit 9: Your Incredible Hearing Machine

• Basic principle of sound

• Functions of the major parts of the ear

• Interdependence of brain and ears

• Increasing the sensitivity of your hearing

• Ways to prevent injury to your ears

• Responsible behavior as key to injury behavior

• Ear infections

• Different types of hearing impairments

• How to support a hearing impairment

• Forms of communication

• The role of sound in the environment

• Safeguards from noise pollution

• Improving your sound environment