HEALTH EDUCATION
(Please see below for class updates)
Welcome to Health Class!
By definition, health is the sum of your physical, mental, and social well-being. This semester we will be looking at various health topics related to you and those around you. We will be having open discussions about all aspects related to health. Please remember that health education class is a place for you to bring questions, comments, or concerns that you might have related to health. It is a safe environment and free from ridicule. Personal attacks and offensive statements will not be tolerated.
Course Description:
This class includes instruction in nutrition, sex education, and drug education. The nutrition portion is taught strictly by the text. The sex education portion is taught strictly by the CPSB curriculum. The drug education portion is taught with CBSP materials, books, pamphlets, films, agencies and supplementary teaching suggestions.
Please note that the Caddo Parish sex education curriculum is strictly abstinence based. If you do not wish your child to be taught the sex education portion of this program, you must sign and return the Caddo Parish Form that was sent home the first week of school. Students not taking this portion of the program will be assigned other health relatied lessons and asked to go to the library to complete that information. Sex education is a six-week long course.
Class Objective:
o To promote physical, mental, and social wellness, health literacy, and positive health behavior in students.
Class Goals:
o To provide students with the necessary skills and materials in order to make positive decisions regarding their health choices and lifestyles;
o To encourage students to participate in various health-related activities during the semester; and
o To provide students with health knowledge so that they may evaluate their own health.
Class Materials:
1. Meeks, Linda & Phillip Heit. (2003). Health and Wellness. Woodland Hills: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
2. I would like you to have an extra notebook that will be used specifically for Friday journaling. Periodically I will pick up your journals and grade them.
Credit:
This class offers one Carnegie Unit.
Class Grades:
Students will earn points daily primarily through activities, participation, homework, classroom assignments, quizzes and tests. Points will be totaled at the end of each 9 weeks. The total number of points earned will be divided by the total amount of points possible. Semester test grades will count for 20% of the total grade.
Late Work:
Students are permitted to make up homework if an absence is excused.
Tardies:
Students must be ready for roll check when the tardy bell rings. Tardiness to class will not be tolerated. After two tardies to class, the student will be notified in writing or through a phone call. Additionally, no student may leave the area until the bell sounds releasing the class.
Class Fees:
There is a $13.00 fee for this course.
Other Rules:
No student is allowed to drink, chew gum, eat candy or other food during class without permission. On Fridays students are allowed to bring a healthy snack to eat in class.
Tentative Fall Schedule:
August 17 - August 21 Icebreaker/team building activities
August 24 - September 4 Unit 1 - Text Book
September 8 - September 30 Drug Education
October 1 - November 13 Sex Education
November 16 - December 18 Text - Health & Nutrition
January 4 - January 8 Midterm Exams
Tentative Spring Schedule:
January 11 - January 14 Icebreaker/team building activities
January 19 - February 15 Sex Education
February 16 - March 12 Drug Education
March 15 - May 21 Text - Health & Nutrition
May 24 - May 27 Final Exams
Remember, when you are in class, you are expected to work. My planning hour is 3rd hour in case you need to speak to me. You may also email me at: janderson@magnetgymnastics.com. I look forward to a great year at Caddo Magnet High School. Working together, we can help you have the best school year yet!
Mrs. Julie Anderson
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Class Updates
Jan 19, 2010 – Feb 12, 2010
Sex Education
JAN 19 – LESSON 1 Goal Setting
- LESSON 2 Communication Skills
- LESSON 3 Your Future: Free or Foreclosed?
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 20 – LESSON 4 Sexuality is Personality
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 21 – LESSON 5 All in the Family
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 22 – LESSON 6 Mind/Body Connection
JAN 25 – LESSON 6 Mind/Body Connection (continued)
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 26 – LESSON 7 The Dating Game
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 27 – LESSON 8 Sex for sale, we want you
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 28 – LESSON 9 Television, Your Other Parent
- Text Discussion Questions
JAN 29 – LESSON 10 Peer Pressure
- Text Discussion Questions
FEB 1 – LESSON 11 Advertising
- Text Discussion Questions
FEB 2 – LESSON 12 Counter-culture
- Text Discussion Questions
FEB 3 – LESSON 13 Puberty & LESSON 14 Female Reproductive System
FEB 4 – LESSON 15 Menstrual Cycle
FEB 5 – LESSON 16 Male Reproductive System
FEB 8 – LESSON 17 Fertilization
FEB 9 – LESSON 18 Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Contraceptives
FEB 10 – LESSON 19 Human Embryonic Development
FEB 11 – LESSON 20 Fetal Development
FEB 15-16 – LESSON 21 Childbirth and Prenatal Care
FEB 17 - Exam
FEB 18 - 19 - PBS Video Presentation
February 22, 2010 - April 9, 2010
Drug Education
24 February 2010
- Video Presentation
25 February 2010
- Origin of Drugs Handout
26 February 2010
- Read Lesson 51 - 55
1 March 2010
- Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) - Session 1 Active Listening
2 March 2010
- TND - Session 2 Stereotyping
3 March 2010
- TND - Session 3 Myths and Denials
- Alcohol Handouts
4 March 2010
- TND - Session 4 Chemical Dependency
- Review
5 March 2010
- TND - Session 5 Talk Show
- Alcohol Quiz
8 March 2010
- TND - Session 6 Marijuana Panel
- Video Presentation
9 March 2010
- Journal Check
- Review
10 March 2010
- Marijuana Quiz
11 March 2010
- TND - Session 7 Tobacco Use Cessation
- Homework - Find a Tobacco ad/article/advertisement and explain how it targets teens (1 or more paragraph, plus the ad. DUE 15 March 2010.
12 March 2010
- Review
- Video Presentation
15 March 2010
- Tobacco Quiz
16 March 2010
- TND - Session 8 Stress, Health and Goals
17 March 2010
- TND - Session 9 Self-Control
18 March 2010
- TND - Session 10 Positive and Negative Thought and Behavior Loops
19 March 2010
- TND - Session 11 Perspectives
22 March 2010
- TND - Session 12 Decision Making and Commitment
23 March 2010
- Other Drugs
24 March 2010
- Video
25 March 2010
- Review
26 March 2010
- Quiz
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