Curriculum Documentation

RSU #16 Poland Regional High School

April 2012

Learning Area: Wellness Learning Area Course Standards & 21st Century Learning Expectations
Healthy Relationships Substance Abuse Decision Making & Goal Setting Nutrition/ Personal Fitness Mental Health

Course: Health Trends

Health Trends Units Standards A. Health Concepts B. Health Information, Products, and Services C. Health Promotion & Risk Reduction D. Influences on Health E. Communication and Advocacy Skills F. Decision Making and Goal Setting

Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

Lifestyle Management

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21st CLE PRHS-Social/Wellness Rubric : Physical Fitness PRHS Social/Wellness Rubric: Social Skills PRHS Social/Wellness Rubric: Healthy Living X X X X X X X X X X X

Common Assessments & Assessment Types

Health Trends Units
Healthy Relationships Substance Abuse Decision Making & Goal Setting Nutrition/ Personal Fitness Mental Health Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases Lifestyle Management

assessment types Portfolio Research Project Oral Presentation Performance Assessment Written Assessment Standardized Test other common assessments Alcohol Affects Us All Suicide/ Depression Test Natural Highs X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Detailed Descriptions of Units

Unit 1: Healthy Relationships
Essential Question: How do students make responsible decisions about relationships and sexual health?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: Standard C- Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. -Students will demonstrate knowledge of anatomy/growth and development. -Students will understand abstinence/pregnancy/infertility/labor. -Students will evaluate the risks and health implications associated with sexually transmitted diseases. -Students will identify skills that promote healthy relationships and avoid dating violence. Standard F- Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students will demonstrate the ability to make decision and set goals to enhance health.

Instructional Resources:

Wellness Website Glencoe Health book Success for Teens Book Safe Voices, Community Health Educators Dating Book Safe Voices

Miracle of Life- movie Teens, Sex, and STI Movie MEDLINE PLUS

Suggested Activities:

Assessments:

Wellness Wheel Health Inventory Dating Book

Abstinence Packet Reproduction Test

Common Assessments:

N/A

Unit 2: Substance Abuse

Essential Question: How do students make responsible decisions about substances that allow them to maintain a healthy lifestyle?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: Standard C- Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. -Students will demonstrate how to access/utilize the substance abuse counselor. -Students will analyze the importance of maintaining self control. Standard F- Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health. -Students will demonstrate how to access the substance abuse counselor. -Students will dramatize the ability to avoid addiction -Students will outline healthy practices and behaviors surrounding medicine use.

Instructional Resources:

Glencoe Health Book www.drugfreeworld.org Book Of Stories-Addiction Oprah-Drinking and Driving Jaquis Struggles- http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Jacquis-Struggle-Video_1 Lynley Turkington- http://www.community-concepts.org 8 Minute- tobacco movie

Suggested Activities:

Oxygen Deprivation Simulation Guest Speakers Drug Free World Commercials Discussion & Reflection Tobacco Interview Addiction to Alcohol Affects Us All Drug Unit questions Addiction to Alcohol Affects Us All

Assessments:

Common Assessments:

Unit 3: Decision Making and Goal Setting

Essential Question: How do individuals evaluate the effectiveness of a health-related decision?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: Standard F- Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health. -Students will identify characteristics that describe a confident individual.

Instructional Resource:

Wellness website

Suggested Activities:

Drug Book-Chapter on inhibitions Goal Setting Discussion Watch Rudy movie and answer reflection questions on movie

Assessments:

Reflection on Rudy movie

Common Assessments:

N/A

Unit 4: Nutrition
Essential Questions: How do students make appropriate food choices that decrease the risk of diet related diseases? How do food selections impact our wellness?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: A Standard: Health Concepts: Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts. - The students will analyze food choices to ensure they are consuming the six essential nutrients. - The students will evaluate ingredients to determine how food additives can affect health. D Standard: Influences on Health: Students will understand how media techniques, cultural perspectives, technology, peers, and family influence behaviors that affect health.

Instructional Resources:

www.choosemyplate.org Current Health: Breaking the Heart Food Inc. (Movie) Dying to Be Thin (Movie)

Suggested Activities:

Food Inc. www.choosemyplate.org (food intake analysis)

Assessments:

Dietary Analysis Assessment

Common Assessments:

N/A

Unit 5: Mental Health

Essential Question: How do stress management techniques lower the risk of disease?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: A Standard: Health Concepts: Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts. - Students will develop strategies to cope with ordinary demands of life. - Students will learn stress management skills that lower an individual's risk of disease. (high blood pressure, heart disease) D Standard: Influences on Health: Students will understand how media techniques, cultural perspectives, technology, peers, and family influence behaviors that affect health. - Students will develop strategies to cope with ordinary demands of life. - Students will learn stress management skills that lower an individual's risk of disease. (high blood pressure, heart disease)

Instructional Resources:

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Information Book (DHS) Coping With Stress (Movie) Who Needs Sleep PSA

Suggested Activities:

Progressive muscle relaxation tapes Music and Emotions Assignment Coping With Stress Quiz Stress Management Plan

Assessments:

Stress Management Plan Coping With Stress Quiz Making a difference-Suicide/Depression TEST

Common Assessment:

Making a Difference - Suicide/Depression TEST

Unit 6: Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

Essential Question: How does heredity influence your health?

Essential Skills & Knowledge: B Standard: Health Information, Products and Services: - Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health. - The student will demonstrate access to valid health information.

E Standard: Communication and Advocacy Skills: - Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health. - The student will analyze hereditary factors that influence their health.

Instructional Resources: `

www.CDC.gov www.familyhistory.hhs.gov www.nlm.nih.gov (medline plus tutorials)

Suggested Activities:

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom CDC.gov scavenger hunt Determinants of Health Essay http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/dear_16yearold_me

Assessments:

N/A

Common Assessments:

Determinants of Health Essay

Unit 7: Lifestyle Management

Essential Question: How do students choose healthy lifestyle activities throughout life?

Essential Skills & Knowledge B Standard: Health Information, Products and Services: - Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health. - The student will demonstrate access to valid health information. E Standard: Communication and Advocacy Skills: - Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health. - The student will analyze hereditary factors that influence their health.

Instructional Resources:

Local media advertisements School Co-Curricular schedule Community events

Suggested Activities:

Escalation of responsibility through communication with family members. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Assessments:

Life Lessons with Morrie Dating Violence PSA

Common Assessments:

Natural Highs Project