Health 2 (960-C)

.5 credit

Grades 10-12

Prerequisite: Health 1 
 
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-related content, 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 character education, decision making, substance abuse prevention, addiction, abusive relationships and domestic violence, human sexuality, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, community and complementary health care services, and environmental health. 

Standards, Indicators, and Scoring Criteria for Health 2