6th – 8th Grade Weekly Assignments
See your syllabus for due dates.
See assignments below.
Sixth Grade
Community Health
1. Identify health advocacy strategies.
2. Identify services provided by local, state, and national health agencies and organizations.
Consumer Health
3. Identify the influence of positive and negative cultural messages on health behaviors.
4. Identify criteria used in determining the reliability of health information, products, and services.
Environmental Health
5. Describe practices that are related to the control of disease and other health problems.
Family Health
6. Identify situations that alter or disrupt the family unit.
Personal Health
7. Describe current issues that relate to healthy living.
Mental and Emotional Health
8. Identify the steps necessary to resolve emotional and physical conflicts.
9. Explain responsibilities related to the protection of self and others from sexual harassment.
10. Identify effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance relationships.
Nutrition
11. Identify healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns.
Injury Prevention and Safety
12. What are the three steps to take during medical emergency situations?
13. Describe strategies for the prevention of physical and/or emotional injury.
Prevention and Control of Disease
14. Discuss the effects of HIV infection on the human body.
15. Explain ways in which HIV/AIDS may or may not be acquired.
Substance Use and Abuse
16. Describe the risks associated with adolescent unhealthy behaviors.
17. Discuss the use of tobacco as a gateway to illicit drug use.
18. Describe the physical and social consequences of substance use and abuse.
Seventh Grade
Community Health
1. Analyze how health-related decisions are influenced by individuals, families, and community values.
Consumer Health
2. Identify the validity of health information related to products and services.
3. Identify appropriate providers for health care needs.
Environmental Health
4. Describe how health is affected by the environment.
Family Health
5. Identify characteristics of healthy relationships among family units.
6. Describe the influence of family history on the causes and prevention of disease and other health problems.
7. Identify personal, social, and legal responsibilities applicable to parenthood.
Personal Health
8. Explain the benefits of preventive health care.
Mental and Emotional Health
9. Describe how decisions regarding health behaviors produce consequences for self and others.
10. Apply assertiveness, negotiation, and refusal skills to situations involving health risks.
Nutrition
11. Select healthy meals from sample menus in school and community settings.
Injury Prevention and Safety
12. Propose appropriate strategies for self-defense.
13. Demonstrate the ability to practice intermediate first-aid skills.
strategies to prevent choking, methods for bandaging wounds, use of pressure points to stop bleeding, appropriate response to ingestion of harmful substances
Prevention and Control of Disease
14. Describe the multiple impacts of disease and disability on the nervous, reproductive, digestive, and respiratory systems.
15. Analyze the short- and long-term effects of risk behaviors that compromise adolescent health.
Substance Use and Abuse
16. Describe the consequences of misusing legal drugs.
Eighth Grade
Community Health
1. Apply health advocacy strategies.
Write and record public service announcements for school or community broadcasts, Write letters to editors of local newspapers
Consumer Health
2. Where can you find accurate health information for personal use on various diseases (e.g. heart, lungs, eyes, etc.).
Environmental Health
3. Identify how public laws protect the environment.
Family Health
4. Identify cultural influences that impact health behaviors.
Personal Health
5. Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.
6. Explain the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems.
7. Develop a positive personal health behavior plan.
Mental and Emotional Health
8. Identify barriers to effective communication about health issues.
9. Apply decision-making skills to improve a personal health behavior. What can you do to change unhealthy behavior in your life?
Nutrition
10. Identify the consequences of poor nutrition.
Injury Prevention and Safety
11. Identify behaviors that prevent injury.
Prevention and Control of Disease
12. Describe the physical, social, and emotional effects of different types of sexually transmitted infections.
Substance Use and Abuse
13. Identify the short- and long-term effects of using alcohol and other drugs, including legal and illegal substances.
Alabama Course of Study: Health Education
http://www.alsde.edu/html/sections/documents.asp?section=54&sort=6&footer=sections