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)	SuggestedPerformance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Explain the relationship between healthy behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, and disease.	Students will have a basic understanding of how body systems interact and depend on outside support, nutrition, and care.	ACCESS Community Service Presentation	Scenarios of choices and behaviors are presented to students.  Students determine how these behaviors affect the body.	nutrition, cancer, skin and organ, communicable diseases
2. Describe the relationship among physical, mental, emotional, and social health.	Students will demonstrate an understanding of healthy and unhealthy stress management strategies and describe how stressors affect a person's overall personal health	Students will: provide knowledge and examples of what causes stress explain how people react to stress give examples of healthy and unhealthy ways people cope with stress describe the health triangle and the relationship of each side to the other	"Getting a Handle on Stress" (MAP Task)	stress, wellness, depression, mental health, socially acceptable behaviors, norms, suicide, personal hygiene, health triangle
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).	Students will understand that personal choices and decisions have a direct affect on body systems	ACCESS Community Services Presentation	Students will create brochures warning of the affects of risky behaviors on personal health.	Addiction, STD's, Gateway drugs, Sensory receptors
4. Evaluate how health is influenced by the interaction of body systems (e.g., physical fitness and the respiratory and circulatory systems).	Students will have a basic understanding of how body systems interact as well as cause and affect of health choices	Students will complete Body Systems packet	Write an essay discussing the relationship between: 1. the endocrine and reproductive system 2. the circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, and lymphatic system. Students will complete The Healthy Systems Advisor	Physical health and fitness.  Healthy body system
5. Analyze how the environment relates to personal health.	Students will understand how their environment contributes to their health	Students will understand the total sum of their surrounds and how each part is a factor in wellness and health. Students will understand that their environment includes the place where they live, the school they attend, friends, family, and other people seen often	Discuss ways in which children learn from family members and teachers to respect and care for themselves and the environment. Students will list tasks that children can be taught around the home and school that will transfer to the community and throughout the students life.	mental and emotional health, heredity, environment, behavior, attitudes
6. Explain how appropriate health care can prevent premature death and disability.	.	.	.	.
7. Identify the characteristics and stages of human growth and development.	Students will know and understand the stages of growth and development from conception to death	Divide the class into groups, have each group write descriptions of a particular life stage-one per index card, in teams, read card descriptions.  Students take turns stating the life stages.	Construct a time line that highlights the major events in the various stages of development from the embryo to the end of life.	fertilization, zygote, embryo, fetus, amniotic sac, birthing process,  infancy, neonatal, childhood, adolescence, puberty, adulthood, middle age, death
8. Demonstrate thorough understanding of key health concepts.	.	.	.	.