Health &Wellness Education
Health &Wellness Education
Grade 7
Grade 7
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Overview
The middle school Health and Wellness curriculum is a skills-based curriculum geared to meet the developmental needs of all students. Aligned with the National Health Standards, the curriculum aims to empower students to make informed and responsible choices regarding their health and well-being for a lifetime. Overview
Interpersonal Communication: Empathy and Assertiveness
Interpersonal Communication: Empathy and Assertiveness
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Define assertiveness and apply assertive communication skills
- Practice respectful disagreement skills including negotiation and compromise
- Apply strategies of asking for help in order to be an ally and resolve conflict
Self-Enhancing Behaviors: Stress Management
Self-Enhancing Behaviors: Stress Management
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Identify causes of stress in our lives and the positive and negative effects of that stress
- Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with stress
- Recognize physical and mental signs of stress
- Define mindfulness and its benefits on the body and mind
- Create a plan including strategies to help manage stress
Advocacy: Bullying Prevention
Advocacy: Bullying Prevention
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Define advocacy and apply its skill cues
- Compare and contrast the pros and cons of electronic communication
- Define cyberbullying and identify safety tips for using social media
- Recognize and define sexual harassment–physical/verbal/written/gestural–and give examples of each
- Distinguish between flirting and sexual harassment
- Identify situations where individuals can become active in preventing harassment and ways to respond to sexual harassment
- Create PSAs to spread messages about bullying, cyberbullying and sexual harassment
Analyzing Influences: Body confidence and media confidence
Analyzing Influences: Body confidence and media confidence
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Analyze how media messages influence our actions and self-esteem
- Define the term body image
- Analyze various media and identify messages and techniques used to influence consumer behavior and choices
- Analyze the influence of advertising and media on body image and body confidence
Decision-Making: Substance Misuse Prevention
Decision-Making: Substance Misuse Prevention
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Apply a step-by-step decision-making process
- Identify short and long-term health risks of commonly misused substances, including nicotine, marijuana, alcohol and opioids
- List risk factors and protective factors that may influence decisions about drug use
- Describe the effects of substance misuse on the adolescent brain
- Identify internal and external factors (e.g., family, beliefs and peers) that influence the decision of young people to use/not use substances
Healthy Relationships and Human Sexuality
Healthy Relationships and Human Sexuality
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Debunk myths surrounding sexual behaviors and analyze how the media promotes myths
- Identify myths and facts surrounding sexual identity and gender by defining terms related to identity
- Explain the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discuss LGBTQ+ respectfully
- Review key structures and functions of reproductive anatomy
- Describe a wide range of ways to express affection in relationships including safe and risky sexual behaviors and their potential outcomes
- Identify the benefits of abstinence, postponing sexual behavior, and setting limits on sexual behavior
- Define STIs/STDs including HIV/AIDS and how they are and are not transmitted
- Demonstrate refusal skills relating to abstaining from sexual behaviors, including abstinence
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