Wellness Choices - Health 8
WELLNESS CHOICES–General Outcome
Students will make responsible and informed choices to maintain health and to promote safety for self and others.
Students will make responsible and informed choices to maintain health and to promote safety for self and others.
Personal Health
1 Students will examine the relationship between choices and resulting consequences; e.g., how choosing to smoke affects how one looks, feels and performs 2. Students will analyze the impact of positive and changing choices on health throughout the life span; e.g., need for varying amounts of sleep, calcium 3. Students will recognize and accept that individuals experience different rates of physical, emotional, sexual and social development 4. Students will develop personal strategies to deal with pressures to have a certain look/lifestyle; e.g., accept individual look 5. Students will evaluate personal food choices, and identify strategies to maintain optimal nutrition when eating away from home; e.g., eating healthy fast foods 6. Students will analyze possible negative consequences of substance use and abuse; e.g., fetal alcohol syndrome, drinking and driving |
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Safety and Responsibility
7. Students will determine the signs, methods and consequences of various types of abuse; e.g., neglect, physical, emotional, sexual abuse 8. Students will identify potentially unsafe situations in the community, and begin to develop strategies to reduce risk; e.g., dark parking lots, lack of railway crossing lights 9. Students will describe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees in relation to workplace safety 10. Students will develop strategies to effectively access health information and health services in the community; e.g., health hot line, family doctor, public health unit 11. Students will identify and develop personal resiliency skills; e.g., planning skills, social competence 12. Students will identify and describe the responsibilities and consequences associated with involvement in a sexual relationship 13. Students will describe symptoms, effects, treatments and prevention for common sexually transmitted diseases; i.e., chlamydia, HPV, herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis B/C, HIV 14. Students will identify and describe basic types of contraceptives; e.g., abstinence, condom, birth control |
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