Health Education
Curriculum Map
Title: American Red Cross First Aid and CPR Grade:7
Enduring Understandings:
- Health concepts are essential for wellness and a health-enhancing lifestyle.
- Community well-being is dependent upon a balance of personal and social responsibility.
- Safety impacts individual and community well-being.
Essential Questions:
- How would you generate a plan to be healthy throughout the entire adult lifespan?
- How could you verify that a link exists between personal and community health?
- What health information resources are available to improve the health and well-being of your family, community and world?
Common Core Standards / Pennsylvania Standards / Content / Skills / Assessment
CC.3.6.6-8.B.
Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented
CC.3.5.6-8.G. Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). / 10.3.6.B:
Know and apply appropriate emergency responses.
- basic first aid
- Heimlich maneuver
- universal precautions
Explain and apply safe practices in the home, school and community.
- emergencies (e.g., fire, natural disasters)
- personal safety (e.g., home alone, latch key, harassment)
- communication (e.g., telephone, Internet)
- violence prevention (e.g., gangs, weapons)
Identify health problems that can occur throughout life and describe ways to prevent them.
- diseases (e.g., cancer, diabetes, STD/HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease)
- preventions (i.e. do not smoke, maintain proper weight, eat a balanced diet, practice sexual abstinence, be physically active)
Recognizing Emergencies
Lesson 2& 3:
Taking Action
Emergency Action Steps
Lesson 4:
ABC’s
Checking the Victim
Lesson 5:
Shock
Lesson 6:
Check the Victim
Conscious Choking Victim
Unconscious Choking Victim
Lesson 7:
Cardiac Emergencies
Lesson 8:
CPR
Lesson 9:
AED
Lesson 10:
Review
Lesson 11:
First Aid Kits
Wounds
Lesson 12:
Controlling bleeding
Lesson 13:
Injury to Muscles, Joints and Bone
Lesson 14:
Sudden Illness
Lesson 15:
Anaphylaxis
Lesson 16:
Asthma and Diabetes
Lesson 17:
Heat and Cold Related emergencies /
- Identifying factors indicating an emergency
- Check Call Care
- Life Threatening situations
- Performing the ABC’s to the victim
- Identifying a person in Shock
- Abdominal Thrusts
- Back Blows
- Breathing and Chest Compressions
- Signs of a heart attack
- Video: John’s Heart Attack
- Causes of heart disease
- Breaths and Compressions
- Location and Practicing on AEDs
- Review all skills
- Contains of a first aid kits
- Soft tissue injuries (PSCAB)
- Steps for controlling bleeding
- Identifying Strain, sprains, dislocation and fractures
- Caring for injuries (RICE)
- Identifying sudden illness (Stroke, seizure, insect bite, poison)
- Defining and recognizing symptoms of severe allergic reactions
- Understanding the triggers that set off attacks
- Signals of an attack
- Care of diabetes
- Signs of diabetic illness
- Recognizing the 3 heat induced and the 2 cold induced emergencies
- Peer Assessment
- Student Worksheet
- Quiz
- Peer Assessment
- Student Worksheet
- Quiz
- Student Worksheet
- Peer Observation
- Student Worksheet
- Skills Sheet
- Peer Observation
- Student Worksheet
- Skills Sheet
- Quiz
- Peer Observation
- Student Worksheet
- Skills Sheet
- Peer Observation
- Student Worksheet
- Skills Sheet
- Final Exam (Written and Practical)
- Student Worksheet
- Create a First Aid Kit
- Student Worksheet
- Quiz
- Student Worksheet
- Quiz
- Applying a sling
- Student Worksheet
- Student Worksheet
- Student Worksheet
- Student Worksheet
- Final Exam
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