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Nutrition
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Why You Need Food
Dietary guidelines
Choosing Healthful Meals and Snacks
Analyze What Influences Your Health
Food Safety
Identify the nutrients your body needs
Identify what foods are in the food groups
Explain how to use MyPyramid to make healthful food choices
List the Dietary Guidelines
Explain how to follow the Dietary Guidelines
Explain how to use the Dietary Guidelines to choose healthful snack
Describe what acts are found on food labels
Identify influences on your food choices
Explain how to plan a menu for a healthful meal
Explain how food can be kept safe
List safety rules for preparing foods
Identify the health benefits of good table manners.
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter 4, Lessons 1 through 4
8/1/2007
10.1.3.C ~ Concepts of Health ~ Explain the role o...
10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...
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Violence and Injury Prevention
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Indoor Safety
Safety on the Go
Safe in Wind and Weather
Staying Safe Around People
Staying Safe from Violence
List safety rules to prevent falls
List safety rules to follow in case of fire
List ways to prevent poisoning
Explain what computer safety means
List safety rules to follow when walking, biking, skating and riding a scooter
Describe how to keep safe around water
List ways to keep safe around cars and buses
Discuss how to stay safe outdoors
Explain how to stay safe in bad weather
List safety rules for times when you are home with someone besides your parents or guardians
List ways to stay safe from strangers
Define what an unsafe touch is
List ways to stay safe from a gang
Explain safety rules to prevent injury from guns and knives
Describe what to do if you find a gun
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 6, Lesssons 1 through 5
10/1/2007
10.3.3.A ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...
10.3.3.B ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...
10.3.3.C ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...
10.3.3.D ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Identify...
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Using Medicines Safely
Alcohol
Tobacco
Using Resistance Skills
Other Drugs
List ways medicines can help health
Explain how prescriptions and OTC drugs differ
List safety rules to follow when using medicines
List ways to say"no" to drinking alcohol
List ways that alcohol affects physical health
Describe how alcohol affects the way a person thinks, feels, and acts
List ways to say "no" to tobacco use
Describe how smoking and smokeless tobacco harm health
Explain ways ads try to get people to use tobacco
List ways second hand tobacco smoke harms health
Explain how to get help for drug abuse
Tell how to say "no" to illegal drugs and the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle
Tell ways caffeine can harm health
List the harmful effects of illegal drugs-marijuana, cocaine, crack and ecstasy
List the dangers of chemical inhalants
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter7, Lessons 1 through 4
12/1/2007
10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...
10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Using Medicines Safely
Alcohol
Tobacco
Using Resistance Skills
Other Drugs
List ways medicines can help health
Explain how prescriptions and OTC drugs differ
List safety rules to follow when using medicines
List ways to say"no" to drinking alcohol
List ways that alcohol affects physical health
Describe how alcohol affects the way a person thinks, feels, and acts
List ways to say "no" to tobacco use
Describe how smoking and smokeless tobacco harm health
Explain ways ads try to get people to use tobacco
List ways second hand tobacco smoke harms health
Explain how to get help for drug abuse
Tell how to say "no" to illegal drugs and the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle
Tell ways caffeine can harm health
List the harmful effects of illegal drugs-marijuana, cocaine, crack and ecstasy
List the dangers of chemical inhalants
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter7, Lessons 1 through 4
12/1/2007
10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...
10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...
Unit
Growth and Development
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Your Muscles and Bones
Your Heart and Lungs
Your Digestive System
Your Senses and Nervous System
Explain the way your muscles work
Describe what your bones do
Identify ways to care for muscles and bones
Describe the circulatory system
Describe the respiratory system
Describe how to care for your heart and lungs
Discuss how your digestive system works
Describe how to care for the digestive system
List the five senses
Discuss what the nervous system does
Describe how to care for the nervous system
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 3, Lessons 2 through 5
2/1/2008
10.1.3.A ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify and descr...
10.1.3.B ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify and know ...
Unit
Communicable and Chronic Diseases
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
Diseases that Spread
Fighting Diseases
Practice Healthful Behaviors
Chronic Diseases
Tell what causes disease
Describe ways to prevent the spread of disease
Explain how to treat flu, cold, and strep throat
Identify ways the body keeps germs out
Explain how the immune system fights disease
Discuss ways to reduce the risk of heart disease
Discuss ways to reduce the risk of cancer
Discuss ways to reduce the risk of diabetes
Define non communicable diseases
Describe ways to prevent non communicable diseases
Demonstrate ways to show care, concern, and respect for people with special needs
Explain what causes an asthma attack
List things you can be allergic to
Discuss ways to lessen allergens
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 8, Lessons 1 through 3
4/1/2008
10.1.3.E ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify types and...
10.2.3.A ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify personal hy...
10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...
10.2.3.C ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify media sourc...
10.2.3.E ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify environment...
Mrs. Carolyn G. Way, Health Instructor, S.S. Palmer Elementary School, PASD, Palmerton, PA