Course Syllabus

Mike Telfer  6th, 7th, and 8th grade Health Teacher

mike.telfer@ucps.k12.nc.us

Sixth Grade Syllabus

Week 1   Intro to Healthful Living 

• What is Health?
• 4 parts of health: Mental, Social, Emotional, and Physical.

         Stress Management

• Apply Structured thinking (decision making and goal setting) to benefit emotional well-being.
• Analyze the potential outcome of positive stress management techniques.
• Analyze the relationship between healthy expression of emotions, mental health, and healthy behavior.

Week 2    Interpersonal Communication & Relationships

• Understand healthy and effective interpersonal communication and relationships
• Apply strategies and skills for developing and maintaining healthy relationships.

Week 3  Nutrition

• Analyze tools such as Dietary Guidelines and Food Facts Labels as they relate to the planning of healthy nutrition and fitness.
• Apply strategies to consume a variety of nutrient dense foods and beverages in moderation.
• Apply lifelong nutrition and health-related fitness concepts to enhance quality of life.

Week 4  Tobacco

• Analyze marketing and advertising of tobacco companies in terms of the strategies they use to influence  youth experimentation with their products.
• Explain the immediate social and physical consequences of tobacco use, including spit tobacco.
• Summarize the short-term and long term effects of being exposed to secondhand smoke.
• Use effective assertive refusal skills to avoid pressure to use tobacco.

Week 5  Reproductive Health and Safety

• Understanding the changes that occur during puberty and adolescence.
• Select methods of prevention based on the modes of transmission of communicable diseases.

Week 6  Diseases

• Understand wellness, disease prevention, and recognition of symptoms.
• Analyze health information and products.
• Analyze measures necessary to protect the environment.

 

Seventh Grade Health Syllabus

Week 1  Intro to Healthful living and stress management.

• Review what the students have learned in the previous year.
• Analyze the relationship between healthy expression of emotions, mental health, and healthy behaviors.
• Evaluate positive stress management strategies.
• Apply help-seeking strategies for depression and mental disorders.

Week 2  Nutrition

• Review what students have learned the previous year.
• Apply tools(My Plate, Food Fact Label) to plan and employ healthy nutrition and fitness.
• Apply strategies to consume a variety of nutrient dense foods and beverages in moderation.
• Analyze the relationship of nutrition, fitness, and healthy weight management to the prevention of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and eating disorders.
• Apply lifelong nutrition and health-related fitness concepts to enhance quality of life.

Week 3  Tobacco

• Review what the students have learned in the previous year.
• Understand the health risks associated with tobacco.
• Apply risk reduction behaviors to protect self and others from tobacco.

Week 4  Alcohol and Other Drugs

• Understand the health risks associated with alcohol and other drug use.
• Apply risk reduction behaviors to protect self and others from alcohol and other drug use.

Week 5  Personal and Consumer Health 

• Review what the students have learned in the previous year.
• Understand wellness, disease prevention, and recognition of symptoms.
• Analyze the immune system in terms of the organs, their functions, and their interrelationships.
• Evaluate health information and products.

Analyze necessary steps to prevent and respond to unintentional injury.

Week 6  Reproductive Health and Safety

• Review what the students have learned in the previous year.
• Understand healthy and effective interpersonal communication and relationships.
• Remember abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage as a positive choice for young people.
• Apply strategies that develop and maintain reproductive and sexual health.

 

8th Grade Health Syllabus

 

Week 1  Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and Heimlich Maneuver

Week 2  Stress Management 

Week 3 Tobacco and Alcohol

Week 4  Nutrition

Week 5  Drugs

Week 6 Interpersonal Communications and Relationships