Junior High Health
Unit 1: Choosing a Healthy Life
Chapter 1: A Healthy Foundation
Lesson 1:Your Health and Wellness
Lesson 2: Influences on Your Health
Lesson 3: What’s Your Health Status?
Lesson 4: Building Health Skills
Chapter 2: Personal Responsibility and Decision Making
Lesson 1: Taking Responsibility for Your Actions
Lesson 2: Recognizing and Managing Habits
Lesson 3: Health Risks and Your Behavior
Lesson 4: Making Responsible Decisions
Lesson 5: Setting Goals and Making Action Plans
Chapter 3: Being a Health Care Consumer
Lesson 1: Making Consumer Choices
Lesson 2: Buying Personal Products
Lesson 3: Caring for Your Teeth, Skin, and Hair
Lesson 4: Caring for Your Eyes and Ears
Lesson 5: Health Care Providers
Unit 2: Nutrition and Fitness
Chapter 4: Food and Nutrition
Lesson 1: The Food Guide Pyramid
Lesson 2: Nutrients for Health and Wellness
Lesson 3: Healthful Meal Planning
Lesson 4: The Digestive and Excretory Systems
Chapter 5: Physical Activity and Weight Management
Lesson 1: Physical Fitness and You
Lesson 2: The Circulatory System
Lesson 3: The Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Lesson 4: Planning a Fitness Program
Lesson 5: Weight Management
Chapter 6: Sports and Conditioning
Lesson 1: Individual and Team Sports
Lesson 2: Sports and Physical Wellness
Lesson 3: Conditioning Goals and Techniques
Lesson 4: Balancing School, Sports, and Home Life
Unit 3: Understanding Yourself and Others
Chapter 7: Growth and Development
Lesson 1: Adolescence
Lesson 2: The Endocrine System
Lesson 3: The Male Reproductive System
Lesson 4: The Female Reproductive System
Lesson 5: Human Development
Lesson 6: Life Stages
Chapter 8: Mental and Emotional Health
Lesson 1: What is Mental Health?
Lesson 2: Building Positive Self-Esteem
Lesson 3: Managing Stress
Lesson 4: Mental Disorders
Lesson 5: Sources of Help
Chapter 9: Social Health: Families and Friends
Lesson 1: Communication Skills
Lesson 2: Understanding Family Relationships
Lesson 3: Friendships and Peer Pressure
Lesson 4: Abstinence and Refusal Skills
Lesson 5: Resolving Conflicts at Home and at School
Unit 4: Protecting Your Health
Chapter 10: Tobacco
Lesson 1: What Tobacco Does to Your Body
Lesson 2: The Respiratory System
Lesson 3: Tobacco Addiction
Lesson 4: Choosing to Be Tobacco Free
Chapter 11: Alcohol and Drugs
Lesson 1: Use and Abuse of Alcohol
Lesson 2: Use and Abuse of Drugs
Lesson 3: The Nervous System
Lesson 4: Risks Involved with Alcohol and Drug Use
Lesson 5: Avoiding Substance Abuse
Lesson 6: Addiction and Recovery
Chapter 12: Understanding Communicable Diseases
Lesson 1: Causes of Communicable Diseases
Lesson 2: The Immune System
Lesson 3: Common Communicable Diseases
Lesson 4: Avoiding Common Communicable Diseases
Lesson 5: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
Chapter 13: Understanding Noncommunicable Diseases
Lesson 1: Understanding Heart Disease
Lesson 2: Understanding Cancer
Lesson 3: Allergies and Asthma
Lesson 4: Other Noncommunicable Diseases
Unit 5: Personal Safety
Chapter 14: Preventing Violence and Abuse
Lesson 1: Dealing with Violence
Lesson 2: Understanding Abuse
Lesson 3: Finding Help
Chapter 15: Safety and Recreation
Lesson 1: Building Safe Habits
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Safety at Home and in School
Safety on the Road and Outdoors
Safety in Weather Emergencies
First Aid
Protecting Our Planet