Contemporary Health Spring 2016
Mrs. Slaven
Contemporary Health is a semester course that helps students acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for making health-promoting decisions, achieving health literacy, adopting health-enhancing behaviors, and promoting the health of others.
Course Objectives
Unit 1: Personal and Consumer Health
A. Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
B. Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
C. Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer.
D. Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.
Unit 2: Mental Health
A. Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors that contributes to positive mental health.
B. Describe how stress influence mental health.
C. Define functional and organic mental disorders and state controls for each.
Unit 3: Family and Social Health
A. Describe how the skills of communication, cooperation, and advocacy are essential for healthy relationships.
B. Describe why the family is the basic unit of society.
Unit 4: Human Growth and Development
A. Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.
B. Examine health practices to be considered before, during and after pregnancy.
C. Identify physical, mental, and emotional changes that occur from childhood through adolescence.
D. Examine the aging process from adulthood through death.
Unit 5: Disease Prevention and Control
A. Recognize the causes, transfer, and control of common communicable diseases.
B. Recognize the ways to prevent HIV infections and STD’s
C. State causes, signs, and control of noninfectious diseases.
Unit 6: Nutrition and Fitness
A. Summarize how responsible food choices lead to nutritional health.
B. Discover the importance of fitness.
Unit 7: Substance Abuse Prevention
A. Examine the health hazards of tobacco.
B. Summarize the health hazards of alcohol.
C. Analyze the health hazards of drugs and the benefits of medicines.
D. Illustrate the health hazards of inhalants.
E. Discuss refusal and intervention skills.
Unit 8: Community and Environmental Health
A. Identify community health-care agencies, health careers, and the importance of family.
B. Explain how the environment affects people and how people affect environment.
Unit 9: Safety and First Aid
A. Discuss promotion of safety and prevention of accidents.
B. Discuss and demonstrate procedures for emergency situations.
ü The following TV shows or movies may be shown in the course as they pertain to specific units. Movies/TV shows will only be shown if time permits during the unit.
Please sign below to give permission for your child to view these movies.
1. Bully (PG-13) Unit 9
2. Cyber bully (TV-14) Unit 9
3. Born Schizophrenic- Jani’s Story, Brodi’s Story Unit 2
4. An episode of the TV show Monk Unit 2
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ü Parent’s Signature & Date Email
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ü Student’s name Class block
We will be using CANVAS for some class assignments/activities. This will require Internet access, which can be done via computer and/or cell phone. If your child does not have Internet access, computers are available in the library and computer labs for use during Zero Period, which is before school from 7:30am – 8:00am.
Classroom rules and procedures:
1. Be seated and working on the bell work when the bell rings.
2. Respect yourself and others at all times.
3. Cell phones and earphones may not be used unless it is necessary for a class assignment and I give you permission to use them. Otherwise, if I see them, I take them.
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ü Student’s Signature Parent’s Signature
Supplies: 1 ½ “ Three ring binder with paper and pen or pencil
Wish List: Paper towels, Kleenex, Germ-x
**The Student Cell Phone Policy for classroom use is attached to this page. It MUST BE signed in order for the students to be allowed cell phone use for classroom activities/assignments.