8th Grade Health

Course Description:

Students will demonstrate health enhancing behaviors by accepting responsibility for their physical, emotional, and social well-being. Units of study include: Healthy Relationships, Emotional Health (Stress, Loss, Depression, and Suicide), and Human Sexuality (Teen Parenting, Refusal Skills, Dating, and Sexually Transmitted Infections). Activities emphasize the positive choices one makes related to basic values: equality, honesty, respect, responsibility, promise-keeping, self-control, and social justice. The theme throughout the course is abstinence from risky behaviors.

Health 8 Instructional Units:

  • Health/Wellness Triangle {health promotion and advocacy for self & others}
  • Healthy Choices & Abstinence {avoiding risky behaviors}
  • Communication & Decision Making {goals/values, self-respect, positive/negative, and verbal/nonverbal}
  • Relationships {conflict resolution, dating, dating violence, harassment, media influence, personal safety, sexting, and sexual abuse}
  • Emotional Health {loss/grief, depression, stress, and suicide}
  • Human Sexuality {pregnancy/birth, family planning, teen parenting, and STIs & HIV/AIDS}