Unit 1: Safe At Home, Safe Away

• Safe at home and away

• Responsible safety strategies

• Safe environments

• Turning unsafe into safe

• Identifying emergencies

• Understanding the concept of risk

• Setting safety personal goals

• Safe, unsafe and confusing touches

• Practicing personal safety

• Using refusal skills

• Communication skills for emergencies

• How to get help

Unit 2: The Better to See You With

• Parts and functions of the eye

• Practicing seeing new things

• Eye problems and protection

• Eye care standards

• Differences in the ways people see things

• People that help care for your eyes

• Ways your body protects your eyes

• Routines for protecting your eyes

Unit 3: Let’s Eat!

• How nutrients nourish cells

• Respecting the body through proper nutrition

• Getting nutrients from food

• Using MyPlate

• Nutrient-loaded versus calorie-loaded foods

• Influences on what food we eat

• The use of food labels to make healthy decisions

• Responsible eating habits

• Personal eating habits

• Creating healthy meals

Unit 4: Community Health

• What is community

• Importance of laws in a community

• Volunteer work to help your community

• Community helpers who keep people safe

• Health of the community

• Healthful behaviors that affect the community

• Characteristics of a healthy community

• Pollution problems

• Maintaining a clean environment

• How drugs and violence hurt a community

• Practice refusal skills

• Ways to prevent violence in the community

Unit 5: I Like Your Attitude!

• Definition of attitude, values, and goals

• Positive attitudes and values

• Positive versus negative attitudes

• Attitude impact on choices

• Recognizing those with a positive attitude

• Refusal skills in risky situations

• Identifying ways to improve your attitude

• Resolving conflicts peacefully

• Group attitudes

• Attitudes to prevent violence in the community

Unit 6: My Family, Your Family

• Definition of family and different types of families

• Importance of the family unit

• Responsibilities of family members

• Family traditions

• Role of genes in cell growth and development

• Pride in family heritage differences

• What makes you special

• Respecting others

• What makes others special

• Definition of child abuse

• Where can you go for help to protect yourself

• Effective refusal skills

Unit 7: Saying NO to Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs

• How to say “no”

• Saying no to peer pressure and making your own decisions

• Recognizing various drugs

• Consequences of giving into peer pressure

• Laws related to smoking, drinking and drugs

• Definition of addiction

• How a drug interferes with values

• Consequences of becoming addicted to drugs, alcohol, tobacco

• Short versus long-term goals

• Definition of patience, persistence and commitment

• Decision-making for drug-free living

Unit 8: Things You Might Catch

• How germs spread

• Ways to prevent germs from spreading to someone else

• Communicable versus noncommunicable diseases

• What is an epidemic

• Body’s role in fighting germs

• Taking care of your body’s defense system

• Ways to keep clean and healthy

• Proper hygiene skills

• How medicined (including vaccines) help prevent illnesses

• Saying “no” to medicines not meant for you

Unit 9: When Bodies Have Challenges

• Different body problems and their causes

• Respecting people with body problems

• Sensitive ways to be helpful to people with body problems

• Major versus minor body problems

• Definition of physical impairment

• How health professionals help individuals with physical impairments

• How people do ordinary, everyday things with physical impairments

• Learning disabilities and how they do not mean a lack of intelligence

• Individuals learn in different ways

• Ways that are easier and harder to learn

• Learning styles

• How your community helps people with physical impairments or learning disabilities

Unit 10: Finding Out About Bones

• Functions of the skeleton

• How is the skeleton important to other body parts

• Good posture

• Various types of skeletons

• How joints help us move

• Protecting your skeleton

• Ways to care for your skeleton

• Consequences of not protecting your skeleton

• Benefits of exercise

• Setting goals for a healthy body

• Importance of enjoying exercise

• Safe rules for exercise

• Sports for boys and girls