St. Martin High School
Standard Course Syllabus
Family and Individual Health
Robin Pate
Course Textbook: Prentice Hall Health
Course Goal: Family and Individual Health is a course which develops skills related to personal,
social, and mental health in today’s society. It includes instruction on human growth and
development, disease prevention and control, substance abuse and prevention, nutrition,
community and environmental health, and safety and first aid. This course can be taken in lieu
of Comprehensive Health.
Competencies:
Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Explain the relationship between current health decisions and future wellness.
Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer.
Explain how mental health contributes to personality.
Describe how stress influences mental health.
Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.
Examine health practices to be considered before, during, and after pregnancy.
Recognize the causes, transfer, and control of common communicable diseases.
Recognize the ways to prevent HIV infection and STDs.
State causes, signs, and control of noninfectious diseases.
Make responsible food choices.
Discover the importance of fitness.
Analyze the health hazards of tobacco.
Analyze the health hazards of alcohol.
Analyze the health hazards of drugs.
Analyze the health hazards of inhalants.
Discuss refusal and intervention skill.
Identify community health care agencies and their functions.
Explain how environment affects people and how people affect the environment.
Discuss promotion of safety and prevention of accidents.
Discuss and demonstrate procedures for emergency situations.
Units:
Personal and Consumer Health
Chapter 1
p. 2
Mental Health
Chapter 3
p. 54
Chapter 4
p. 80
Human Growth and Development
Chapter 18
p. 458
Chapter 19
p. 486
Disease Prevention and Control
Chapter 21
p. 546
Chapter 22
p. 572
Chapter 23
p. 600
Nutrition and Fitness
Chapter 8
p. 190
Chapter 9
p. 218
Chapter 10
p. 240
Substance Abuse Prevention
Chapter 15
p. 372
Chapter 16
p. 398
Chapter 17
p. 424
Safety and First Aid
Chapter 26
p. 692
First Aid Appendix
p. 722
Methods of Instruction: Textbook reading, lectures, class discussion, written and oral
reports, demonstrations and presentations, and guest speakers.
Methods of Evaluation: Classwork, quizzes, tests, projects, labs.
Grading Policy: Classwork 20%, Quizzes 20%, Projects 20%, Labs 10%, Tests 30%.