Health 6-8

Health 6

Students will be introduced to the promotion of good health and well-being. Activities emphasize the positive choice one makes related to chemical substances, fitness, friendships, human growth and development, and nutrition.

Health 7

Students will develop and maintain healthy lifestyles. Emphasis is placed on information and the positive choices students can make to promote good health, now and throughout their lives. Health 7 focuses on diseases, environmental health, personal health, relationship boundaries, and substance abuse.

Health 8

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.

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Health 6-8

Health 6

Health 7

Health 8

Russell Middle School guarantees each student develops ownership of personal excellence by demonstrating positive character traits and mastering academic knowledge and skills through effective instructional practices designed to challenge all students in a safe, supportive, world-class environment.