Middle School Health Education
Syllabus 2018-2019
Theme Verse: I Timothy 4:12
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you
are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love,
in faith, and in purity.”
Course Description:
The Health
Education curriculum is based on an organized and sequential format. Students
will be taught information and skills needed to be competent in health issues,
maintain and improve health, prevent disease and reduce health-related risk
behaviors. The program is designed to help students acquire and maintain good
character, responsible decision-making and resistance skills and to develop
healthful behaviors and relationships that are appropriate for living in a
Christian manner.
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate their acquisition and integration
of major concepts and unifying themes of health information and issues.
2. Gain competence in processing
information by employing critical thinking strategies. designed to enhance
problem solving and responsible decision making.
3. Understand relationships among
families and individuals in order to make decisions which are in the best
interest of self and family.
4. Describe the healthy functions of the
human body and how it is affected by individual decisions regarding diet,
exercise and the environment.
5. Acquire knowledge and skills
regarding nutrition and food to make healthful decisions which enhances the
quality for life for them.
6. Explain and exhibit proper personal
hygiene care and the ability to access valid health promoting products and services.
7. Identify the different components
necessary to maintain an appropriate fitness level, including sleep, diet,
exercise and prevention of injuries.
8. Diagnose and demonstrate first aid
procedures necessary in checking and treating an injured victim.
9. Identify the effects, appearance,
physical and psychological dependence and danger various groups of drugs have
on individuals.
10. Participate in activities to enhance
their ability to use resistance skills.
11. Comprehend causes, symptoms,
diagnosis and treatment of chronic and communicable diseases.
12. Demonstrate the ability to use goal setting
skills that will reduce their risk of developing these diseases.
13. Choose appropriate technological tools and use
them effectively in research and problem-solving situations.
14. Exhibit an appreciation of the
importance of learning health information.
Content:
Grade 5: General understanding of all the systems of the body,
personal health maintenance and
family life. (based on Science Fusion: Cells to the Body System)
Grade 6: Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs, decision-making skills, and
health-enhancing strategies to address the non-use and abuse of medications.
(Based on “Project Alert”)
Grade 7: Human Anatomy (Life Science Book by Prentice Hall),
Grade 8:
Chronic and Communicable Diseases, Nutrition and Safety and Injury
Prevention (Total Health “Talking About Life” ACSI)
Grading:
Grading will
be a combination of the following criteria:
1. Homework
2. Assessments
3. Classwork
4. Group Activities
5. Individual Projects
Expectations:
· To follow all school and classroom
rules
· Take care of equipment and material
· Be responsible for finishing assigned
work
· Ask the teacher questions and/or
assistance when needed
· To do their best at all times
· Make up work when absent
