ALL THE THINGS YOU
WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT
5TH AND 6TH GRADE HEALTH
BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Presented By
Andy Faulkner
and Mike Solheim
Mr. Solheim and Mr. Faulkner’s
Families
AGENDA
1. Grading for Health
2. 5th grade: Syllabus
3. 5th grade: First Aid
4. 5th grade: Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness
5. 5th grade: Growing Up and Changes
6. 6th grade: Syllabus
7. 6th grade: Nutrition
8. 6th grade: Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness
9. 6th grade: Growing Up and Changes
10. Question and Answer
Grading for Health
Grading
• We grade the same as the rest of RCI.
• We use Outcomes and Study Skills to
evaluate the students.
• Homework and Tests are graded using the
“P,B,N” system. (proficient, basic and not
yet)
Grading Outcomes in Health Class
Outcomes
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Graded on a scale of 1-5.
1=The student is unable to show understanding of the outcome.
2=The student demonstrates some understanding of the outcome but has not
achieved a level adequate to pass.
3=The student demonstrates an understanding of the outcome by passing the test at
the set level of proficiency, however long term retention may not be verifiable.
4=The student demonstrates an understanding of the outcome at the established
proficiency level.
5=The student demonstrates an understanding of the outcome beyond the
established proficiency level.
9=Instruction on this outcome is “in progress,” and no formal assessments have been
administered at this time.
Grading in Health
Study Skills
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Graded on a scale of 1-3 (3 outstanding, 2 is most of the time and 1 is
seldom or never). However, on the report cards, it will show as a P,B or N.
Examples of study skills include:
Stays on task
Produces quality work
Completes assignments on time
Organizes work
Works independently
Shows respect
Follows classroom rules
Cooperates
5TH Grade Syllabus
• Health is a 1 quarter or 9 week class. 5th grade is
divided into 3 units;
• First Aid
• Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness
• Human Growth and Development.
• The quarter approximately breaks down as follows.
• 2 days of getting to know the students
• 8 days first aid
• 17 days AODA
• 13 days HG&D
First Aid
5TH Grade
• In the first aid unit 5th graders learn basic
first aid techniques to deal with the
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Accidents and Prevention
First on the scene and 9-1-1
Poisoning
Choking
Burns
Bites and Stings
Bleeding
AODA 5TH Grade
• In the AODA unit 5th graders learn:
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Decision making skill
The prevalence of drug use
Ways to make friends
Ways to have fun, and stay safe and healthy
The affects of the following drugs on the body:
Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine and
Inhalants
How to deal with Peer Pressure and ways to refuse
How to deal with stress in a positive way
How to deal with others who have addiction
problems
Who to talk to if you have a problem
GROWING UP and CHANGES
5TH Grade
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Families
Values
Media
Self- esteem
Hygiene
Puberty and Changes
Reproductive parts
Menstruation
Gender roles
Orientation
Families
• Lesson Objective: Students will learn the
importance of family, what family means, and
that there is not a set style of family.
• Parts of the lesson:
Look at the different family structures within the
class.
Work as a group to accomplish a difficult task.
Discuss the findings of the activity.
Values
• Lesson objective: Discuss what values are,
where they come from, and that parents are the
most important source of values.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Look at what values are, and discuss 6 basic societal
values and the range that people have in their belief
about what is right or wrong. ( honesty, equality,
promise keeping, respect, responsibility, and social
justice).
– Discuss where ideas about values come from and the
validity of the information.
Media
• Lessons objective: The students will evaluate the
information, and messages within commercials
across a variety of mediums.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Students research in groups, four media venues. (2
web pages, TV, magazines)
They present their findings to the class.
Self-Esteem
• Lesson Objective: The student will
review the growth and accomplishment
they have made from birth to present.
• Parts of the lesson: Using a worksheet,
students write down the changes and
accomplishments they have achieved.
Puberty and Body Changes
• Lesson Objective: Examine the physical
changes that occur during adolescence
• Parts of the lesson:
– Discuss what’s, when’s and why’s of
adolescence.
– Video that looks at the changes through
adolescence.
– Worksheet on male and female changes that
are different or the same.
Hygiene
(Boys and girls separate)
• Lesson Objective: Explain healthy
hygiene habits needed due to changes
during adolescence.
• Parts of the lesson: Review body
changes, complete a chart of healthy
hygiene habits.
Reproductive Parts
(Boys and girls separate)
• Lesson Objective: Identify which
reproductive parts are male and which are
female.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Review of changes
– Video on changes and parts.
– Matching worksheet (male parts to male
picture, female parts to female picture).
Menstruation
(Boys and girls separate)
• Lesson Objective: Explain the cycle of
menstruation.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Explain the path of the egg cell.
– Discuss why it is not okay to make fun of
menstruation.
Gender Roles
• Lesson Objective: Define and discuss the
terms stereotype, gender role, and gender
beliefs.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Examine class gender beliefs through magazine
ads.
– Define terms
– Homework showing empathy toward the opposite
gender.
Sexual orientation
• Lesson Objective: Define the terms: sexual
orientation, gay, lesbian, straight, homosexual,
heterosexual, homophobia, and heterophobia;
and discuss why using the terms incorrectly is
not okay.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Tell the students that we are not going to discuss our
beliefs about right or wrong, we are only going to
discuss what the terms mean and how people can be
hurt by using these terms incorrectly.
– Define the terms.
– Read a story that shows how people are hurt when
someone uses terms in a hurtful manner.
Homework/Tests in 6th grade
Homework
• We try to keep homework to a minimum. We sometimes ask
students to discuss ideas at home with you. We want you to be the
primary people your child discusses Health concepts with.
• Most of the time homework is done in class.
• If there is an outside of class assignment, we check when the
assignment is due and who completed it. This is our way of
checking on “Study Skills” during the quarter.
• Tests
• There are 3 major tests in class:
• 1=Nutrition
• 2=AODA
• 3=Human Growth and Development
6th Grade Syllabus
• 6th grade Health is a nine week class. We meet
everyday.
• There are 3 units: Nutrition, Alcohol and Other Drug
Awareness (AODA), and Human Growth and
Development (HGD).
• Introduction/get to know the kids takes about 2-3 days.
• Nutrition lasts about 8 days.
• AODA lasts about 17 days.
• Human Growth and Development lasts about 12 days
(we do this unit last).
6th grade Nutrition
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Food Guide Pyramid- How it is different now and how to read it.
www.mypyramid.gov (lessons on how to create goals and tips about food)
Reading Food Labels
Super Size Me Lesson- How Friends may influence our food choices
Super Size Me Lesson- How media and TV can influence our choice to eat
at McDonald’s and other fast food places.
Portion Sizes
Eating Disorders (2 days)
Review Game- Jeopardy type questions game
Test (20 questions) 0-4 wrong=P, 5-7 wrong=B, 8 or more wrong =N
(corrections need to be made).
6th Grade AODA Lessons
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Introduction day- Use latest DPI stats.
Tobacco (2 days)-tobacco and chewing dangers.
Alcohol (2 days)- dangers
Advertising- How media affects our choices to buy tobacco or
alcohol.
Refusal Skill- How to say no to your friend and keep them as a
friend.
Steroids- Dangers
Addiction- Dangers
Peer Pressure Experiment
Inside/Outside- Looking at how judging people is sometimes
wrong.
Living With an Alcoholic- Ways to keep yourself Healthy.
Marijuana- dangers
Review games
6th grade Human Growth and
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Lessons
Body Image
Values
Decision Making
Communication
Self-Esteem
Cost of raising You
Stereotyping
Reproductive Systems- National
Geographic
Transmission Impossible- STI’s
(sexually transmitted infections)
Staying Safe from Sexual AbuseBody Jeopardy Review Game- fun
way to review for test.
6th grade HGD
Body Image
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will define body image and create
suggestions for improving and maintaining one’s
body image during puberty.
• We look at a website in class, www.bam.gov,
that helps students see what media does to
make models/people look the way they do in
magazines.
6th grade HGD
Values
• Lesson Objective:
• To play a pretend game/auction to
demonstrate where our goals and values
may be. During puberty years, values
may change or be experimented with.
These changing values can be a
significant factor in the goals we keep and
the ones we change.
6th grade HGD
Decision Making
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will play 2 games to demonstrate
that what kind of information you get helps
us make informed decisions. Students
interact with each other to help arrive at a
decision.
6th grade HGD
Communication
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will learn the different styles of
communication (verbal, non-verbal, active
and passive). They will again play a
series of interactive games to demonstrate
how we communicate with each other can
help or hurt relationships.
6th grade HGD
Self-Esteem
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will define self-esteem (how we feel
about ourselves). They will then interact in a
relay race that demonstrates how negative
comments can weigh us down after time. We
write negative comments on little pieces of paper
and progressively add them so the students
have to carry them in a relay race.
• Students will then define terms (sexual
orientation, gay)
6th grade HGD
Cost of Raising You
• Lesson Objective:
• The students will compute the financial
responsibilities of raising a child.
Understanding the realities of parenthood
is a strategy for pregnancy prevention as
well as a good way to help students
appreciate the tasks their parents face.
6th grade HGD
Stereotyping
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will learn that making decisions or forming
opinions without sufficient information will lead to poor
decisions and unfair judgments about people.
• We will play a guessing game with different rounds.
Each round the students get to increase the amount of
knowledge they get about the object they are trying to
guess.
• We will define terms: Stereotype, gender role, and
sexism.
6th grade HGD
Reproductive System
Parts
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• Students will view a
video from National
Geographic on the
reproductive system.
They will label the
parts on charts.
6th grade HGD
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Transmission Impossible
Lesson Objectives:
Students will participate in a trading card game that illustrates the
spread of Sexually transmitted disease (STD) from one infected
person to another. It also illustrates how abstinent behavior
eliminates the risk of contracting an STD.
Students will also view a DVD that explains what HIV/AIDS is and
how it works in the body. They will learn how to protect themselves
in later lessons.
Terms will be defined: abstinence, contraception, oral sex, and
sexual intercourse.
Pregnancy options will be presented as well: child rearing,
adoption, and abortion.
6th grade HGD
Staying Safe From Sexual Abuse
• Lesson Objective:
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of sexual
abuse and the use of assertive communication in
potentially threatening situations. Students will read a
short skit that will generate a discussion about sexual
harassment.
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Listen to your “uh-oh” feeling
Say “NO!”
Run Away
Tell a trusted adult
Go to a safe place
6th grade HGD
Body Jeopardy review game
• Lesson Objective:
• This is a review game that the students
generally like. It helps them discuss the
correct terms for parts of the female and
male reproductive systems. It is a game
which asks the students to become more
comfortable saying parts of the body out
loud and in a fun and appropriate way.