Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Health
Grade 6 Guidance

Content Standard: A. Health Concepts
Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators

Students will be able to:

Essential Elements
(Specific grade level learning objectives)
Suggested
Performance Activities
Suggested
Classroom Assessments
Vocabulary

2. Describe the relationship among physical, mental, emotional, and social health.

Learning to take care of yourself physically and emotionally

Learning how social health affects physical wellbeing

Reading and discussing Chapter 3 in Teen Health (Glencoe)

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mental health
personality
heredity
environment
behavior
self-concept
reinforce
emotions
hormones
emotional
eating disorders

3. Analyze the effects that risky behaviors have on personal health (e.g., tobacco, drugs, poor nutrition, sexual activity, sedentary lifestyle, and behaviors resulting in injury).

Making good choices versus risky choices

Self-esteem  

Pride in yourself

Tobacco Unit (5 days)
Teen Health, Chapter 8

nicotine
tar 
carbon monoxide
emphysema
cancer
addiction
secondhand smoke

6. Explain how appropriate health care can prevent premature death and disability.

Develop an awareness of how risky behaviors affect one's health, and length and quality of life. How does self-esteem affect the decisions we make that affect our health? 

Tobacco Unit
Teen Health, Chapter 8