Health 1 (950-C)

.5 credit  

Grade 9-10                                          

This is a half year course that promotes healthy lifestyles for both the short and long term. The goal of health education is to help students acquire an understanding of health concepts and skills and apply them in making healthy decisions to improve and promote personal, family and community health. This course focuses on health content and examines attitudes and formulates lifestyle behaviors. Students integrate a variety of health concepts, skills and behaviors to plan their personal health goals. Areas of study include wellness, character education, decision making, fitness, nutrition, mental health disorders, suicide prevention, substance abuse and addiction, reproductive systems, abstinence, and family life education. 

Standards, Indicators, and Scoring Criteria for Health 1