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Enduring Understandings
- important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the
instruction received this year.
- Learning to make healthy choices is
an essential life skill.
- Knowing the facts about human
sexuality is important for each person to make wise choices.
- Each one of us are responsible for
our own health and well being.
- Responsible
decision making and saying no to peer pressure are important life
skills.
- Understanding the functions of the reproductive system,
the process of conception, prenatal development and birth can help young
adults make wise decisions.
- There are appropriate and inappropriate
options relating to
high risk behaviors.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
- How do I know if I am making a healthy choice?
- Why is it important that the decisions we make today
could affect our future health and wellness?
- Why are life skills so important?
- Why is it important for adolescents
to know about the
reproductive system, prenatal development and birth?
- What are the effects of risky
behaviors?
Standards
Highest Frequency Standards
 High
Frequency Standards,
 Other
Standards & E-skills
National Health Standard 10: Students understand the fundamental
concepts of growth and development.
Benchmark A: Students understand how the human body changes as
people age.
Benchmark B: Students know the similarities and differences
between female and male sexuality.
Benchmark D: Students know the strategies for coping with
concerns and stress related to changes that occur during
adolescence.
Science Standards 6-8 grade
Standard III – Life Science: Students know and understand the
characteristics and structure of living things, the processes of
life, and how living things interact with each other and their
environment. (Focus: biology, anatomy, physiology, botany,
zoology, and ecology)
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Students know and understand the characteristics of living
things, the diversity of life, and how living things
interact with each other and with their environment.
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Students know and understand how the human body functions,
factors that influence its structures, and functions
compared with those of other organisms.
Benchmark C: Students describe how structure is related to
function in living organisms.
Indicators:
Students:
2. Illustrate and describe the structures and functions of
human body system.
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Lessons
District
11 Diamond Units/Lessons Overview - includes information about the
purpose, goals and structure of these sample instructional units:
Lesson 1: What is Human
Sexuality?
Duration: 2 days
Materials Needed:
Health Curriculum Booklet
print page 15, Science notebook, and Prentice Hall Health - Skills for Wellness
Third
Edition
Enduring Understanding: Knowing the facts
about human sexuality is important for each person to make wise choices.
Essential Question: Why is it important
for adolescents to know about the
reproductive system, prenatal development and birth?
Assessment: Science Notebook entries and completion of the Life Skill - Goal
Setting worksheet from the Health Curriculum Booklet
Activities
- Day One: Find the following terms and definitions in the Vocabulary section
of your Health Curriculum Booklet page 58 and include these terms and
their definitions in the glossary of your Science notebook.
- Read pages 223-226 about Puberty or search for information about
puberty online or at your local library.
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Day Two: As a review of yesterday's lesson please record and
answer the following questions in your science notebooks:
What is puberty?
Name three ways that increased hormone production
affects the body.
Explain why growth spurts can cause some adolescents
to feel awkward.
Who it likely to begin puberty first, a boy or a
girl?
Discuss with an adult and complete the Life Skill:
Goal Setting worksheet from your Health Curriculum Booklet page 15.
Differentiation
Extension:
Click here
to take an interactive tour of the human body systems.
Support:
Click here for Chris's Story.
Supplementary Resources:
Click here
to take an interactive tour of the human body systems.
Lesson 2: Reproduction
Duration: 3 days
Materials Needed:
Health Curriculum Booklet print pages 16 and 17, Science notebook,
and Prentice Hall Health - Skills for Wellness Third
Edition
Enduring Understanding: Knowing the facts
about human sexuality is important for each person to make wise choices.
Essential Question: Why is it important
for adolescents to know about the
reproductive system, prenatal development and birth?
Assessment: Science Notebook entries and completion of the Human Reproductive
Organs worksheet from the Health Curriculum Booklet. Take the worksheet
to the Learning Center on your next visit.
Activities
- Day One: You may use your textbook or internet sources for this lesson. Begin
by learning a little about the endocrine system. If you are using the
textbook you will find this information on pages 168-172. As you learn
about the endocrine system, whether you use the textbook or internet
sources, record and answer the following questions in your science
notebook.
What is the function of the endocrine system?
Name two hormones and their functions.
Why has the pituitary gland been called the "master gland"? Which
other gland controls the pituitary gland?
Day Two: Again you may use your textbook or internet sources
to become familiar with the parts of the human reproductive systems. If
you are using your textbook you will find this information on pages
173-175 and 178-181.
Please complete the Reproductive Organs worksheet
found on page 17 of the
Health Curriculum Booklet. Once you have completed the
worksheet glue or staple it into your science notebook.
Day Three:
As
a review of yesterday's lesson please record and answer the following
questions in your science notebook:
Name the external male sexual
organs.
What are the two major functions of the testes?
What is semen and how is it formed?
Name two internal female reproductive structures
and their functions.
What is ovulation, and how frequently does it
occur?
Read pages 201-204 of your textbook about conception
and pregnancy and record answer the following questions:
Name the two cells whose union causes
fertilization.
Where does implantation occur?
How long is a trimester? How many trimesters are
there in a human pregnancy?
Differentiation
Extension:
Click here
to take an interactive tour of the human body systems.
Support:
Supplementary Resources: Click here
to take an interactive tour of the human body systems.
Lesson 3: Making Healthy Choices
Duration: 3 days
Enduring Understandings: Learning to make
healthy choices is an essential life skill. Each one of us are responsible
for our own health and well being. Responsible
decision making and saying no to peer pressure are important life
skills.
Essential Questions: How do I know if I am making a healthy choice? Why is it important that the decisions we make today
could affect our future health and wellness? Why are life skills so important?
Materials Needed:
Health Curriculum Booklet print pages 16 and 17, Science notebook,
and Prentice Hall Health - Skills for Wellness Third
Edition
Assessment: Informal assessments for this units would be the questions
answered in your science notebook.
Activities
- Day One: What are health and wellness? Read Pages 2-6 in your textbook and
record and answer the following questions in your science notebook:
Should you cheat on a
final exam in a class that you are in danger of failing?
Should you run for
class president against a popular student?
Should you go ice
skating with friends on a lake where the ice might be too thin?
- Day Two: Identifying health risks. Read pages 7-12 in your textbook and then
complete the following Analyzing Risks and Benefits exercise.
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Imagine that you are facing each of the decisions described below. list
the possible risks and benefits associated
with each situation, and then describe in your science notebook what you
would do.
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Day Three: Taking
Responsibility for Your Health. Read pages 13-19 in your textbook and
respond to the following questions in your science notebook:
What are
the three most common causes of death for young people today?
Which
type of risk factor is associated with all three?
What are
the four steps involved in the process of behavior change?
Differentiation
Extension:
Support:
Click here for more information on your health.
Lesson 4: Personality and Self
Esteem
Duration: 2 days
Materials Needed:
Health Curriculum Booklet
print pages 16 and 17, Science notebook, and Prentice Hall Health - Skills for Wellness Third Edition
Enduring Understanding: There are appropriate and inappropriate
options relating to
high risk behaviors.
Essential Question: What are the effects
of risky behaviors?
Assessment: No formal assessments - reflection in science notebook.
Activities
- Day One: Personality and Mental Health. Read pages 24-27 and think about the
following questions as you read:
What does the term personality mean?
List five characteristics of mentally healthy people.
How might environment influence personality?
Day Two: Self Esteem. Read pages 34-36 and think about the
following questions as you read:
What is self esteem?
Why is self esteem important to health?
What are some important influences on a person's
self-esteem?
What could you do to help?
Day Three: Expressing Emotions. Read pages 37-45 and think about
the following questions as you read:
What does the word emotion mean?
Name five common emotions.
Why should you avoid using defense mechanisms too
frequently?
Write a reflection in your journal about what you
have learned about personality and self-esteem. Your reflection should
be 3-4 paragraphs long.
Differentiation
Extension:
Support:
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Parents
When parents ask their teenagers what happened at school, they often get very
vague responses. You can demonstrate your support of your child's learning
by asking specific questions like, "What topic are you studying this week in
health? Share the topics you are interested in and why. While driving
together, there are games you can play to foster good communication.
Ask your teen to pick a science topic and quiz you by posing questions for
you to answer. Teaching
information to someone else is the best way to remember information.
You will be giving your teen an opportunity to demonstrate his or her
understanding of science information, and boost his or her confidence in
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