Core Unit: Personal & Mental HealthTopic:Teen YearsPacing (# of Lessons):12-14 classes

Grade level: 7th# of Students:Time:

Standards: (Healthy Lifestyle Framework)

Standards / Description
M-1.2, 8.2
M-6.3, 7.1 / M.1.2. Describe the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social and physical health during pre-adolescence/ adolescence
M.8.2. Support a healthy position with accurate information
M.6.3. Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for themselves and others
M.7.1. Use the goal-setting process to enhance health

Common Core Standards:

Standards / Description
CCSS.RST.3.6-8 CCSS.RST.4.6
CCSS.SL.1.7-8 / Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade appropriate (7-8) topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Big Idea:

Many changes occur throughout the teen years.

Essential Questions:

What changes occur during puberty/adolescence?
How can I manage conflict and potential violent situations?
How can I practice proper hygiene behaviors?

Concepts & Skills:

Concepts / Skills
1. Puberty and adolescent changes.
2. Proper hygiene. / 1. Identify changes that occur in the body.
2. Evaluate personal hygiene and changes that occur.

Assessment Evidence:

Activating Prior Knowledge / Assessing Knowledge Gained
Pre-Test
/ Post-Test
Type 2 Vocabulary Cards
Type 2 John Collins
Type 3 John Collins

Learning Plan:

MWF rotation: Sept 16- Oct 21: T, TH rotation: Sept 17- Nov 4 (Marking period end Nov 1)

Class # / Learning Activities / Product / Essential Questions (DOK)
Pre-test
Review Pre-test
Defining key terms / Pre-Test
Note taking /
  1. Define the difference between adolescence and puberty
  2. Why do you think we go through puberty?

Changes / Note taking
Worksheets /
  1. Compare the difference between physical changes and social changes
  2. Do you think boys or girls have it more difficult during puberty? Explain your reasoning.

Changes / Note taking
Worksheets /
  1. Compare the physical changes a boy verse a girl goes through during puberty
  2. What are the strategies you can use to keep yourself PHYSICALLY healthy?

Vocabulary
10-words/index cards
word and definition / Type 2 cards /
  1. Describe how physical and intellectual health are both important to be a healthy individual.
  2. Explain the role of hormones during puberty

Vocabulary
word and definition / Type 2 cards /
  1. Describe how social and emotional health are both important to be a healthy individual
  2. Predict the outcome if your intellectual ability stayed concrete and didn’t progress to abstract thinking

Decision Making / Note taking
Worksheets /
  1. How would surrounding yourself with positive people be related to whether you make good choices or not?
  2. What would happen if you decided not to deal with issues that were making you stressed or upset?

Peer Pressure Video
Discussion / Video
exit pass /
  1. Where is the toughest pressure most likely to come from? Explain why.
  2. Why would somebody give into peer pressure? Explain.

Peer Pressure / Note taking
Worksheets /
  1. Explain strategies you can use to avoid negative peer pressure
  2. List 3 examples of negative peer pressure and 3 examples of positive peer pressure

Odd Girl Out Video / Video/worksheet /
  1. Identify and summarize major events from the movie. Using evidence from the movie predict the eventual outcome
  2. Identify the different types of bullying specifically seen in Odd Girl Out

Odd Girl Out Video / Video
10% summary / 10% summary / Identify and summarize the major events in the narrative. Formulate a central idea, define and apply vocabulary words
10% summary / 10% summary
10% summary / 10% summary
Post-test
Review Post-test / Post-test / How has your knowledge expanded from when you took the pre-assessment?

Modifications/Differentiation:

Resources:

  • Refer to N:/Health and PEEHMS health

Unit 1 – 7th Grade

Teen Years Vocabulary

  • Abstract Thinking
  • Puberty
  • Peer Pressure
  • Adolescence
  • Concrete Thinking
  • Hormones
  • Social Health
  • Emotional Health
  • Intellectual Health
  • Physical Health

Unit 1 - 7th Grade

Teen Years Vocabulary

Abstract Thinking You can’t really see it but you understand it

Concrete Thinking Believing only what he or she can see hear or touch.

Puberty It is a time/stage when young people first become able to reproduce – have children.

Adolescence The period from about age 10 to 19 during which a child changes into an adult.

Hormones Chemicals that send messages to different parts of your body telling them how to grow.

Peer Pressure Influencing someone to do something either positive or negative.

Intellectual Health The ability to learn and reason, brain development

Social Health Refers to how well you get along with others.

Emotional Health Being able to handle your feelings appropriately

Physical Health- Refers to the changes to your body