MCPS Course Syllabus:
Course Title: Comprehensive Health and Wellness
Prerequisite: Completed grade 9
Course Credit: .5
Instructor: Lynn Wiegand
Dates of course: January 27- March 25
Instructor information:
Name: Lynn Wiegand
Email: Lynn_M_Wiegand@mcpsmd.org
Telephone: (W) 240-632-6952 (C) 301-471-9188 (Verizon)
Instructor availability:
Virtual office hours: M-F 7:30-8:00pm
Best time to be reached by phone: Before 9pm
Course Description:
Students learn factual information and develop lifetime skills in mental health; tobacco,
alcohol, and other drugs; nutrition and fitness, personal and consumer health, disease
prevention, family life and human sexuality, and safety and injury prevention. Although
this course is required for graduation, it contains two units, family life and human
sexuality and AIDS prevention that require parental permission for students under age 18.
Standards: (this is what the state requires within the course)
1. Mental and Emotional Health – Students will demonstrate the ability to use
mental and emotional health knowledge, skills, and strategies to enhance one’s
self-concept and one’s relationship with others.
2. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs - Students will demonstrate the ability to use
drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to
address, the non-use, use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other
drugs.
3. Personal and Consumer Health - Students will demonstrate the ability to use
consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health
practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community
resources.
4. Family Life and Human Sexuality – Students will demonstrate the ability to use
human development knowledge, social skills, and health enhancing strategies to
promote positive relationships and healthy growth and development throughout
the life cycle.
5. Safety and Injury Prevention – Students will demonstrate the ability to apply
prevention and intervention knowledge, skills, and processes to promote safe
living in the home, school, and community.
6. Nutrition and Fitness - Students will demonstrate the ability to use nutrition and
fitness knowledge, skills, and strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle.
7. Disease Prevention and Control - Students will demonstrate the ability to apply
prevention and treatment knowledge, skills, and strategies to reduce susceptibility
and manage disease.
Instructional Outcomes: (this is what MCPS requires within the course)
Mental and Emotional Health
1. Recognize and apply effective communication skills.
 Apply the decision-making process to personal issues and problems.
3. Demonstrate, evaluate and analyze strategies to manage stress.
4. Recognize and respond to signs of potential destructive behaviors.
5. Identify components to promote personal well-being.
6. Implement a strategy and evaluate progress toward achieving personal goals.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
1. Identify factors that influence the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
2. Investigate effects of prescription and OTC drugs and resulting consequences.
3. Identify and examine physical, psychological, social, and legal consequences of
the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
4. Access information and services for treatment of addictive behaviors.
5. Classify a variety of psychoactive drugs and identify the consequences of their
use and abuse. (Previously introduced, Grade 8)
6. Recognize and explain the legal ramifications of alcohol use and abuse in a
variety of situations.
7. Determine appropriate and inappropriate use of steroids and the consequences of
each.
Personal and Consumer Health
1. Demonstrate the ability to identify and practice health enhancing behaviors and
reduce health risks to live safer, healthier lives.
2. Demonstrate the ability to locate resources from your school’s community that
provide valid health information concerning consumer health issues and services.
3. Describe and analyze risk factors and behaviors that contribute to the
development of illness.
Family Life and Human Sexuality
1. Explain the process of human reproduction (fetal and maternal).
2. Describe prenatal care.
3. Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships.
4. Describe the roles and responsibilities of parenting.
5. Analyze factors that influence an individual’s decisions concerning sexual
behavior.
6. Demonstrate capacity for setting sexual limits.
Safety and Injury Prevention
1. Assess and respond appropriately to harassment and other violent behaviors.
2. Assess and respond appropriately to sexual aggression.
3. Recognize contributors to harassment, intimidating behaviors, and violence.
4. Demonstrate the ability to respond appropriately to emergency and nonemergency situations.
5. Identify and respond appropriately to hazardous situations.
Nutrition and Fitness
1. Demonstrate an understanding of body image, how it is developed, and how it is
influenced.
2. Identify and analyze the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight.
3. Analyze influences on eating and activity behaviors.
4. Analyze eating and activity behaviors that need improvement.
5. Explain the role of nutrients and healthy eating in maintaining and restoring
health.
6. Examine the relationship among food intake, physical activity, and weight
7. management.
8. Describe and analyze information from the Nutrition Facts Label.
Disease Prevention and Control
1. Examine society’s response to disease.
2. Describe risk factors and behaviors that influence contraction and transmission of
communicable diseases.
3. Demonstrate the ability to access valid information about HIV/AIDS.
4. Review risk factors and behaviors that contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases
Course Materials:
Factual information in health education is drawn from many other fields of study.
Informational resources from the social and biological sciences, home economics,
consumer studies, and fields of medicine are used to provide background for the applied
science of health education.
It is essential that information provided to students be factually accurate and current.
Health information changes constantly and it is a continuous challenge to keep up to date
on all content areas included in comprehensive health education.
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Course Calendar:
Day
Topic
1
Face-to-face session: overview, self esteem, suicide prevention
2
Mental Health: Wellness
3
Mental Health: Emotions and Coping Mechanisms
4
Mental Health: Stress Management and Mental Disorders
5
Drug Prevention: Drug Abuse Prevention
6
Drug Prevention: Gateway Drugs
7
Drug Prevention: Addiction and Recovery
8
Face-to-face session: nutrition and fitness and injury prevention
9
Nutrition and Fitness: Nutrition for Life
10
Nutrition and Fitness: Weight Management and Eating Disorders
11
Nutrition and Fitness: Physical Fitness
12
Personal and Consumer Health: Hygiene and Consumer Health
13
Family Life and Human Sexuality: Relationships
14
Family Life and Human Sexuality: Reproduction or Abstinence
15
Disease Prevention: Preventing Diseases
16
Disease Prevention: STD’s or Obesity
17
Safety and Injury Prevention: First Aid
18
Safety and Injury Prevention: Violence Prevention
19
Face-to-face session: FLHS, disease prevention, final exam
Academic Honesty
By accepting a seat in an online course in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS),
you also accept responsibility to uphold the academic honesty and intellectual integrity
that MCPS has established.
The word “cheat” is defined by the online Cambridge dictionary as “to behave in a
dishonest way in order to get what you want”
When working online, students must maintain the highest level of academic honesty in
order to master the content and attain the intended level of intellectual development from
the course. Each individual student is responsible for his/her decision-making in regard to
academic honesty.
Method for submitting assignments :
Each assignment has a designated location for submission. In many cases it will be the
dropbox. In some cases, there may be the option for bringing a completed assignment to a
face-to-face session. Be sure to follow the instructions on each assignment for how to
submit an assignment. If a student has a question as to how to submit an assignment,
contact the instructor.
Expectations for “participation”:
Good time management skills are a must for online success. Assignments are due by the
established due dates for full credit. If an issue arises whereby a due date will not be met,
communication with the instructor before the due date is required.
There is no “set” time when a student must log onto the course, but there are due dates
and deadlines (available on the schedule and the news) which must be met.
All students will participate in all discussions (see below for specific information).
Grading:
Discussion: You can earn up to 20 points for each discussion.
 10 points for your original response to the question
 Up to 10 points for responses to two other classmates (remember that in order
to earn the entire 10 points, your responses need to be meaningful and spark
interest--do not simply say "I agree.")
Assignments: Each assignment has an individual point value; in order to receive the
maximum points of an assignment, all criteria for that assignment must be met at
the highest level (details, examples, etc.).
Projects: Each project has an individual point value and grading rubric. In order to
receive the maximum points for a project, all criteria for that project must be met
according to the rubric.
Assessments: Each assessment has an individual point value assigned and are
automatically scored within the course.
Additional supports available:
 Technical support: Contact Richard Jolles at Richard_Jolles@mcpsmd.org
or at 240-632-6940
Additional resources:
 CDC.gov
 NIH.gov
 Mypyramid.gov
 Kids.gov