Health Department
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The focus of our program is to develop awareness and understanding of Human growth and development
- The relationship between behaviors and healthy development
- Ways to promote health and prevent disease and will demonstrate and practice positive health behaviors
- Personal and socially responsible behaviors
- The influence of culture, media, and technology in making decisions about personal and community health issues
- Valid health information, products, and services
Students will take Heath for 10 weeks in 7th grade and 8th grade.
Grade 7 Units of Study
Wellness & Disease Prevention
*Communicable diseases
*Lifestyle diseases
Communication
*Active listening
*Assertiveness
*Peer pressure resistance
Drugs
*Effects on teen brain & body
*Alcohol
*Tobacco & marijuana
*Prescription & OTCs
Human Growth & Development
*Physical, emotional and social
changes of puberty
*Reproduction system
*Genetics
Personal Safety
*Abduction prevention
*Sexual abuse preventionGrade 8 Units of Study
Understanding Health and Wellness
*lifestyle, environment, heredity
*health skills for life
*decision making skills
*mental health/illness
Stress Management
*identify, reduce & manage
*teen suicide prevention
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
*effects on mind & body
*stages of addiction
*peer pressure/media influencesHuman Growth and Development
*male & female reproductive systems
*abstinence, contraception
*teen pregnancy prevention
*HIV/AIDS & other STDs
Health Department Faculty
Ms. Casella: ccasella@bscsd.orgMr. Morse: dmorse1@bscsd.org