Comprehensive Health
Course Objectives/Syllabus
Instructor:
Coach Mann
Telephone:
443-0040
Planning Period: 3rd
Objectives
Course Title:
Credit:
Prerequisite:
Comprehensive Health
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N/A
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and awareness about body systems and
hygiene. Students completing a comprehensive health education curriculum should be equipped with a solid health
knowledge base, but must also possess the tools necessary to apply this knowledge wisely. These critical tools are
the health performance skills that will enable students to become productive, health-literate members of society.
A comprehensive school health instructional program will encompass the following:
 Instruction intended to motivate health maintenance and promote wellness and not merely to prevent
disease;
 Activities to develop decision-making skills and individual responsibility for one’s health;
 Opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices;
integration of the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of health as the basis for study of
other topic areas, such as consumer, environmental and nutritional health
Course Grading
The students will be evaluated in various ways. They will be required to complete homework assignments,
participate in class every day, and take test on various chapters. They will also take a final exam at the end of the
semester. All test and make-up work is the responsibility of the student.
Grading Scale
Class Work
Minor Grades
Homework
Minor Grades
Quizzes
Minor Grades
Chapter Tests
Major Grades
Projects
Major Grades
Final Exam
Major Grade
Class room Rules
 Be on Time
 Bring necessary materials to class
 Be respectful toward others
 Be accountable for your actions
 Learn something new everyday
Consequences for breaking rules
 Warning/Redirection
 Contact Parents
 Contact Parents
 Parent/Student/Teacher Conference
 Referral to Administration
Course Competencies
Unit 1
A Healthy Foundation
Chapter 1-Living a Healthy Life
Chapter 2-Building Health Skills and Character
Chapter 3-Being a Health-Literate Consumer
Weeks 1-2
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Physical Activity and Nutrition
Weeks 3-4
Chapter 4-Physical Activity for Life
Chapter 5-Nutrition and Your Health
Chapter 6-Managing Weight and Body Composition
Mental and Emotional Health
Weeks 4-5
Chapter 7-Achieving Good Mental Health
Chapter 8-Managing Stress
Chapter 9-Mental and Emotional Health
Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships
Weeks 5-6
Chapter 10-Skills for Healthy Relationships
Chapter 11-Family Relationships
Chapter 12-Peer Relationships
Chapter 13-Violence Prevention
Personal Care and Body Systems
Weeks 7-9(End of 1st Quarter)
Chapter 14-Personal Care and Healthy Behaviors
Chapter 15-Skeletal, Muscular, and Nervous Systems
Chapter 16-Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems
Chapter 17-Digestive and Urinary Systems
Chapter 18-Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
Growth and Development
Week 10 (Start of 2nd Quarter)
Chapter 19-Prenatal Development and Birth
Chapter 20 Adolescence and the Life Cycle
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Weeks 11-12
Chapter 21-Tobacco
Chapter 22-Alcohol
Chapter 23-Medicines and Drugs
Diseases and Disorders
Chapter 24-Communicable Diseases
Chapter 25-Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
Chapter 26-Noncommunicable Diseases and Disabilities
Unit 9 Injury Prevention and Environmental Health
Chapter 27-Injury Prevention and Safe Behaviors
Chapter 28-First Aid and Emergencies
Chapter 29-Environmental
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Weeks 13-14
Week 15
Reproductive Health
Weeks 16-18 (End of Semester)
Sexuality and Decision Making
A. Explain how self-concept relates to the ability to make healthy choices.
B. Tell how goal setting and having a vision of your future can help you make responsible decisions to
promote your health.
C. List and utilize the steps in the decision making process.
D. Explain the meaning of sexuality.
Adolescence-A Time of Change
A. Explain the role of hormones in body function and their impact on the secondary sex characteristics
and sexual response.
B. Identify the primary hormones for males and females.
Relationships and Decisions About Sex
A. Explain the importance of relationships.
B. Identify the importance of dating a variety of people to determine traits and characteristics, which are
desirable in future, relationships, including marriage.
C. Access a personal relationship.
D. Identify the constructive elements in a relationship.
Reproductive Systems
A. Explain the function of male reproductive structures.
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B. Describe self-care for male reproductive system.
C. Explain the function of female reproductive structures.
D. Describe self-care for the female reproductive system.
E. Explain the process of ovulation.
Pregnancy and Birth
A. Explain the fertilization process.
B. Explain why good prenatal care is important.
C. Describe the development that takes place during each stage of pregnancy.
D. Identify problems encountered by pregnant teens.
E. Identify the stages of labor.
Making Responsible Choices
A. List the reasons to choose abstinence before marriage.
B. Explain why withdrawal if not effective in preventing pregnancy.
C. Explain that there is no safe time of the month during the menstrual cycle where pregnancy is
concerned.
D. Describe the mechanical methods of birth control.
E. Describe the chemical methods of birth control.
F. Describe permanent methods of birth control.