Course Listings

High School Health Education Courses

• First Aid & Safety- This course provides a basic overview of the causes and preventions of unintentional injuries, appropriate emergency responses to those injuries and crisis response planning. Safety education should include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), first aid for obstructed airway, and injury prevention.

• Adolescent Health Problems- This course provides students with opportunities for investigation and self-assessment of selected adolescent health problems. This course should incorporate individual, small group, and large group study. The content should include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • • • • • Family life- parenting skills and care-giving

          • Personal health- wellness planning, decision-making, hygiene, human growth and development, goal-setting, prevention of child abuse and neglect

          • Internet safety

          • Mental and emotional health- prevention of depression interpersonal, risk-taking and self-defeating, coping skills and suicide

          • Nutrition- physical activity and wellness

          • Substance use and abuse- tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use and abuse

          • Injury prevention and safety- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automatic external defibrillator (AED), first aid for obstructed airway violence, gangs, and bullying

          • Prevention and control of disease- including HIV/AIDS and other STIs

          • Community and consumer health- resources and advocacy

          • Teen dating violence- abuse prevention

• Health Exploration Honors- The purpose of this course is for students to apply health-related research practices. Experiences include discourses in major health problems in society, modern health practices, current scientific findings related to human diseases and disorders, collection, analysis and evaluation of health information, health advocacy trends, and health career investigations. The content is similar to and expands upon the topics from Adolescent Health Problems. Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines.

High School Graduation Requirement- HOPE

The purpose of this course is to develop and enhance healthy behaviors that influence lifestyle choices and student health and fitness. Students will combine the learning of principles and background information in a classroom setting with physical application of the knowledge.

In addition to the physical education content represented in the benchmarks below, specific health education topics within this course include, but are not limited to:

• Mental/Social Health

• Physical Activity

• Components of Physical Fitness

• Nutrition and Wellness Planning

• Diseases and Disorders

• Health Advocacy

• First Aid & Safety including compression only CPR

Physical Education with the integration of Health Graduation requirements:

• HOPE: PE Variation

• HOPE: Core