ALL THE THINGS YOU
WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT
5TH AND 6TH GRADE HEALTH
BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Presented By: Mike Solheim
Mr. Solheim’s Family
Health Information
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Michael Solheim- connects to blog
Directly to my blog:
- http://rcihealth.blogspot.com
Grading for Health
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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
Numbering system: 1-4.
This year Health class is implementing
parent- child homework into each of the
5th and 6th grade Outcomes- “5 Minute
Education”
Grading in Health
Study Skills
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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
Health
• Health is a 1 semester or 12 week class. It meets
every other day.
• 5th grade
• First Aid
• Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness (AODA)
• Human Growth and Development.
• 6th grade
• Nutrition
• Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness (AODA)
• Human Growth and Development
Health
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• Packets:
Students are expected to use this everyday in class. It contains all
class information, activities and homework!
Designed to help students be involved in class.
Test questions are also reviewed daily and students are allowed to
write these down as well!
WHY??!?!
Gives the kids a chance to be responsible on their own, and a
chance to be really successful if they choose.
If taking a written test, AND their 5 Minute Education assignments
are completed, they can use their packet on the test!!
If their homework is not completed and they have to take a written
test, they cannot use their packet on the test.
Health Projects
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• First Aid Kit, Posters, Power Points, Interviews.
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Do Not have to take a written test if a project is
completed!
– No project= Written test.
Health
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• What is it?
Homework that you, the parent/guardian, have
to do with your child. You have to write down
what they explain we did in Health that day in
their packet. It should only take “5 minutes”.
More if you want.
WHY?!?!
Daily reminders are given in class, a written
reminder is left up in the room at all times.
This is basically the only outside homework for
Health!! We do this for each unit.
First Aid 5TH Grade
• In the first aid unit, 5th graders learn basic
first aid techniques to deal with the
following situations:
• Accidents and Prevention
• First on the scene and 9-1-1
• Poisoning
• Choking
• Burns
• Bites and Stings
• Bleeding
AODA 5TH Grade
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Decide Skills
Prevalence of Drug use
Making Friends Skill
Dangers of:
– Tobacco/chewing tobacco
– Alcohol
– Marijuana
– Cocaine/Inhalants
Refusal Skills
Stress
Living with an Alcoholic
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GROWING UP and CHANGES
5TH Grade
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Families
Values
Media
Self- esteem
Hygiene
Puberty and Changes
Reproductive parts
Menstruation
Gender roles
Sexual 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:
Use balloons in a fun activity that
demonstrates how families can work
really well together, and how they don’t
sometimes.
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:
– Using made up scenarios the students discuss what
Value should have been used in different situations.
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Equality
Honesty
Respect
Responsibility
Etc.
Media
• Lessons Objective: The students will evaluate
the information, and messages within
commercials, magazines, and the internet.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Students research in groups, four media
venues: (2 web pages (pbskids.org and
bam.gov), TV, magazines)
They present their findings to the class.
Story of Me
• Lesson Objective: The student will review the
growth and accomplishment they have made
from birth to present.
• Parts of the lesson: Using 2 photos brought
into class, students will place their photos on a
worksheet and write down things they have
learned to do since they have been little. This
demonstrates how much they have changed
already.
Hygiene
• Lesson Objective: Explain healthy hygiene
habits needed due to changes during
adolescence.
• Parts of the lesson: View a DVD on hygiene
“best practices”. DVD is titled, “Brush up on
Hygiene”. Using some puzzles and word
searches, students will learn in a fun way
how to better take care of themselves. A
checklist will be sent home for the students
to track their clean habits for a week.
Puberty and Body Changes
(Boys and Girls Separate)
• Lesson Objective: Examine the physical
changes that occur during adolescence
• Parts of the lesson:
– Discuss what’s, when’s and why’s of
adolescence.
– View a video that looks at the changes
through adolescence, “We’re Growing Up”.
– Worksheet on male and female changes that
are different or the same.
Puberty and Menstruation
(Boys and girls separate)
• Lesson Objective: Help show some
anatomy, growth and development, along
with the menstrual cycle.
• Parts of the lesson:
– View video, “Always Changing, Always
Growing”.
– Explain the path of the egg cell.
– Discuss why it is not okay to make fun of
menstruation.
Reproductive Parts
• Lesson Objective: Identify which reproductive
parts are male and which are female.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Review of physical changes
– Video, National Geographic’s reproductive Systems,
on changes and parts.
– Matching worksheet (male parts to male picture,
female parts to female picture).
– Students must be able to know which parts belong to
a male and vice versa. They do not have to know
where. In 6th grade they will.
Gender Roles
• Lesson Objective: Define and discuss the
terms: stereotype, gender, gender role, and
gender identity.
• Parts of the lesson:
– Examine class gender beliefs through magazine
ads.
– Define terms
– Homework showing empathy toward the opposite
gender.
Sexual Identity/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.
6th grade Nutrition
Lessons
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Food Guide Pyramid
Computer Lab assignment- uses the website- www.mypyramid.gov
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
6th Grade AODA Lessons
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Introduction day- Tobacco
Chewing Tobacco
Alcohol
Marijuana
Steroids
Cocaine/Inhalants
Paper Bag- Peer Pressure
Addiction
Refusal Skills
Inside/Outside- friends influences on us
Part of the Group- judgments on others
Media/Advertising- influence on our decisions
Living with an Alcoholic
Review and Test
6th grade Human Growth and
Development
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Lessons
Body Image
Values
Decision Making
Communication
Self-Esteem
Cost of raising You
Stereotyping
Reproductive SystemsNational Geographic
Transmission ImpossibleSTI’s (sexually transmitted
infections)
HIV/AIDS info.
Staying Safe from Sexual
Abuse
Review and test
6th grade HGD
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Body Image
Lesson Objective:
Students will define body image and create
suggestions for improving and maintaining one’s
body image during puberty.
Parts of the Lesson:
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 and how this may affect them.
6th grade HGD
Values
• Lesson Objective: To show how we spend
money sometimes shows us where our values
are.
• Parts of the Lesson:
• 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 demonstrate that what kind
of information you get, and who you talk to
helps us make informed decisions.
• Parts of the Lesson: Using M&M’s, the
class must work together to guess how
many M&M’s are in a jar.
6th grade HGD
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Communication
Lesson Objective:
Students will learn the different styles of
communication (verbal, non-verbal, active and
passive).
Parts of the Lesson:
They will again play a series of interactive
games to demonstrate how we communicate
with each other can help or hurt relationships.
Example: Telegraph- sitting back to back, one
student draws what other explains.
6th grade HGD
Self-Esteem
• Lesson Objective:
• What people say to us, and what happens to us affects
us emotionally and physically. How we respond to these
events in our lives can boost or hurt our self-esteem and
emotional well-being.
• Parts of the Lesson: The students will 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)
and discuss how these terms used incorrectly can
impact other people.
6th grade HGD
Cost of Raising You
• Lesson Objective:
• 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.
• Parts of the Lesson: Students will add up
expenses often faced by all families. They will
quickly learn that it is difficult to make ends meet
even in the best of circumstances, let alone
being too young and pregnant.
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.
• Parts of the Lesson:
• We begin the lesson with an old experiment using eye color as a
stereotype and how it’s silly to use that.
• We will play a guessing game with an object in a paper bag. Each
round the students get to increase the amount of knowledge they
get about the object they are trying to guess. It represents how fast
we sometimes judge others based only on looks and how complex
knowing someone really is.
• We will define terms: Stereotype, gender role, and sexism.
6th grade HGD
Reproductive System
Parts
• Lesson Objective: To
learn the parts of the
reproduction system for
male and female.
• Parts of the Lesson:
• Students will view a video
from National Geographic
on the reproductive
system. They will label
the male and female
parts.
6th grade HGD
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Transmission Impossible
Lesson Objectives: To experience how fast diseases can be
transferred between people (sexually transmitted infections).
Parts of the Lesson:
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 begin a DVD that explains what HIV/AIDS is and how it
works in the body. They will learn how to protect themselves.
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
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Lesson Objectives: Students will learn what HIV/AIDS
is and also what it does to the body.
Parts of the Lesson:
Students will finish viewing a previous DVD on what
HIV/AIDS is (short- if needed).
Students will then watch a short story DVD on Kristen’s
story- a typical girl who contracted HIV/AIDS and died
from the disease. It demonstrates what the disease can
do to someone and how it can affect those around you.
We will then take a myth/fact quiz to better understand
our own questions about the disease.
6th grade HGD
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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.
Parts of the Lesson:
Students will read a short skit that will generate a
discussion about sexual harassment.
Students will learn 5 ways to stay safe:
– 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: Students review
lessons and test questions.
• Parts of the Lesson:
• Play a review game that goes over all of
the test questions from the entire unit.