1. High School Health Curriculum
2. Scope and Sequence
   1. Total Hours- 86
   2. Total Units- 7

High School Health Curriculum

High School Health Curriculum

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Scope and Sequence

Scope and Sequence

• Unit 1 - Introduction to Health and Mental Health (Chapters 1-4)     15 hours

Making Healthy Decisions (3 hrs)

Personality, Self-Esteem, and Emotions (4 hrs.)

Managing Stress (4 hrs.)

Mental Disorders and Suicide (4 hrs.)

• Unit 2 - Social Health (Chapters 5 - 6)          5 Hours

Family Relationships (2 hrs.)

Building Healthy Peer Relationships (Sections 1-3) (3 hrs.)

• Unit 3 - Nutrition (Chapters 8-10)            15 Hours

Food and Nutrition (6 hrs.)

Making Healthy Food Choices (7 hrs.)

Digestion and Excretion (2 hrs.)

• Unit 4 - Substance Abuse (Chapters 15-17)          15 hours

Alcohol (4 hrs.)

Tobacco and other Drugs (7 hrs.)

Preventing Drug Abuse (Co-dependency) (4 hrs.)

• Unit 5 - Human Development and Sexuality (Chapters 18-20,

22 & Supplement, Ch. 6- section 4,            20 hours

Adolescence and Adulthood (8 hrs.)

Reproduction and Heredity (2 hrs.)

Pregnancy, Birth and Childhood (4 hrs.)

Abstinence (1 hr.)

STD’s / AIDS (5 hrs.)

• Unit 6 - Safety, CPR, First Aid (Chapter 26)           6 hours

Preventing injuries (3 hrs.)

CPR (3 hrs.)

• Unit 7 - Disease Prevention (Chapters 21 & 23,         10 hours

Infectious Diseases (5 hrs.)

Chronic Diseases and Disabilities (5 hrs.)

Total Hours- 86

Total Units- 7

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