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Standard: 2.1 Wellness: All students will acquire health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Strand: A. Personal Growth and Development
By the end of Grade 8
Essential Questions
1) Why is it important
to understand the
influences on your
health?
2) How do media and
technology
influence your
health?
Enduring Understandings
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Understanding how
heredity, environment, and
other factors affect your
health can help you make
healthy decisions.
Content Statements
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Developing and
maintaining wellness
requires ongoing evaluation
of factors impacting health
and modifying lifestyle
behaviors accordingly.
2.1.8. A.1 Assess and apply health
data to enhance each dimension of
personal wellness.
2.1.8. A.2 Compare and contrast
the impact of genetics, family
history, personal health practices,
and environment on personal
growth and development in each
life stage.
2.1.8. A.3 Relate advances in
technology to maintaining and
improving personal health.
2.1.8. A.4 Determine the impact
of marketing techniques on the
use of personal hygiene products,
practices, and services.
Activities and Student Experiences
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HEALTH SKILLS PRACTICE- (Glencoe Health, 2009,
Chapter 1, Page 19)
Have students keep a journal for one week noting times
they successfully avoided, or abstained from, a health
risk. Ask students to note how they participate in
promoting their own health. Have students follow up
writing a short paragraph explaining the health benefits
of abstinence from risk behaviors.
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EXPOSITORY WRITING- (Glencoe Health, 2009,
Chapter 2, Page 49)
Students will find three ads in a teen magazine. They
will then write a short essay explaining the advertising
techniques used in each ad.
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Desired Results
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Students will be able to identify factors positively or
negatively affecting their health.
Students will be able to analyze the impact genetics;
family history, personal health practices, media, and
environment affect their overall development.
Assessment
 Expository writing rubric:
http://www.state.nj.us/education/njpep/assessment/TestS
pecs/LangArts/Scoring/RubricsNJwritingHolistic.html
To show evidence of meeting this standard, students may:
 By completing the weekly journal and showing evidence
of what they learned through the expository writing, the
students will be able to determine what affects their
overall health.
Equipment Needed
 Computer/Internet access
 Paper
 Writing utensils
 Magazines
 Journals and Composition Notebooks
Teacher Resources
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www.thesiswritingservice.com
www.teenagepregnancyinformation.org
Glencoe Health – www.glencoe.com *
PE Central- www.pecentral.com
KIDS Health- www.kidshealth.org
www.teenrelationships.org
www.webmd.com
www.teenwire.com
www.sexetc.org
www.life.familyeducation.com
RubiStar4teachers- www.rubistar4teachers.org *
www.rubrician.com/physical *
www.discovereducation.com
www.girlshealth.gov
www.boyshealth.gov
www.teencentral.net
www.howstuffworks.com
www.rcampus.com/rubrics
www.stayteen.org/relationships
(Princeton Center for Leadership, HiTOPS.
www.teenpep.org )
www.advocatesforyouth.org
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http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/classpar.cgi
www.abovetheinfluence.org