Health (Semester: Grades 6-12)

Length:  1 Semester

Grades: 6-12

This course is designed to provide information needed to make important decisions about health, wellness, and individual lifestyle. Emphasis will be placed on the student’s acquiring knowledge and assuming responsibility for one’s own health. Goal: The overall goal of this course is for students to learn about a wide variety of health topics and be able make positive health decisions for themselves in the future based on the information that is presented to them.

Curriculum: The curriculum will be a mixture of teacher created lessons/assignments with the use of reading sections from the online version of Glencoe Health. 

Each week students will login to the Google Classroom for the lesson and assignments. Each week will have a minimum of 5 assignments. Activities will also be provided to meet the lab component. Examples: creating a food log, heart rate exercises, creating a personal exercise routine, science sketches of body systems, making a blood platelet model, making a play-doh model of the respiratory system, making a water bottle lung, boundary mind map, KWL charts, friendship goal sheet, Say No To Drugs poster, etc.

This course will feature a full semester of core health units. 

Class info video: video link

Note: Students will be assigned a section to read each week that contains 2-3 lessons. Each lesson will include 3-4 pages to read and 4-5 vocabulary words. We will make notecards on the vocabulary and practice the terms on Quizlet. Then students will be provided an online assessment link using Quizizz for tests. In addition, several lab component and activities will be provided to help with comprehension.

Students have up to 12 months to complete the course. Some families use this as a semester class, but some use it for a full year. It can be moved through at the student's pace, if the self paced format is chosen. This course will fill the requirements for a 1/2 year or semester of health credit.

The instructor will use the Glencoe Health for specific reading sections, but then also add in fun assignments along the way. The following topics will be covered:

General Health

Nutrition

Dealing With Stress

Confidences/Self Esteem

Diet

Food Guidelines

Nutrition Labels

Health Conditions

Mental Disorders

Suicide Prevention

Coping With Grief

Importance Of Exercise

Setting Fitness Goals

Personal Hygiene

Body Systems

Heredity/Genetics

Growth/Puberty

Health Disorders/Prevention

Diseases/Disease History/Pandemics/Virus Prevention Methods

Allergies/Asthma

Personal Safety/Road Safety/Outdoor Safety

Drug Safety

The Dangers Of Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

First Aid

CPR

Note: This course was created to meet the need to provide a general health credit for homeschoolers, private school students, and charter school students. The material used to create the class will be a mixture of teacher created lessons and Glencoe Health reading passages. 

This is a general health class suitable for 6-12 grade. This course will not cover the following more in-depth health topics: Developing Personal Identify/Gender Changes, Sexual Abstinence, Virginity, and Human Sexuality. 

Student Projects: Students will have several projects and research along the way. A few example projects will be creating a paper triangle food pyramid, a weekly food journal, setting up a fitness plan with goals, researching/creating a meal plan, drug safety poster, punnett square scenerio, body system sketches, anatomy labs/3d models, and stress reduction technique project. 

Tuition:

Self Paced 

18 Week Semester ($10/Week)

$180

Live Zoom

18 Week Semester With 18 Zooms ($25/Zoom)

$450

This course is an appoved charter school class. If you are registering from a charter school, please pick the self paced learning model below.