Online High School
Grade 9 Health I
Grade 9 Health I Course Outline (0.5 Credit)
Health Education is designed to give students an awareness of the importance of one’s health in improving the quality of life. It is a subject of Grade-9 Online High Course that includes choosing and financing health services; communicable diseases; chronic disorders; abuse of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; and other topics related to developing health-educated individuals.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Welcome
- Course Description
- Understanding Plagiarism
- Health and Wellness Links
- MLA Formatting MSWord 2007
- MLA Documentation updates
- MLA Citation
- MLA Incorporating Sources
- Essay: Introduction
Understanding Health & Wellness
- Welcome to Comprehensive Health Education!
- Health status of a population
- The Leading Health Indicator
- Worksheet: Health Determinants and Health Status
- What Impacts Your Health?
- You Control Your Health!
- Character
- Quiz: Understanding Health & Wellness
- Essay: Expository Writing
Eating for Health: Nutrition
- The New Food Pyramid
- Handout: MyPlate Community Toolkit
- Assignment: Healthy Eating Presentation
- Macronutrients
- Nutrients
- Eating Disorders
- Choose Diet Low in Fat
- Choose Diet Moderate in Sodium
- Unhealthy Eating
- Worksheet: Eating for Health: Nutrition
- Quiz: Nutrition
- Weight Management
- Aim for Healthy Weight
- Handout: Analyze your Diet
- Essay: Advertising
- Assignment: Analyze your Diet
- Assignment: Community’s Impact on Health
Physical Activity
- Overview
- All About Exercising
- Skeletal and Muscle Systems
- Circulatory System
- Fitness Plan
- Handout: Develping Your Personal Fitness Plan
- Worksheet: Developing a Personal Fitness Plan
- Assignment: Create a Fitness & Strength Training Plan
- Weight Training & Sports
- Measuring Your Heart Rate
- Handout: Heart Rate Activity
- Assignment: Heart Rate Activity
- Worksheet: Physical Activity
Mental & Emotional Health
- Self-esteem
- Self Responsibility
- Human Emotions
- Anxiety
- Case Study
- Essay: High Anxiety
- Stress and Anxiety
- Signs of Stress
- Stressors
- Types of Conflict
- Comunication during Conflicts
- Assignment: Communication
- Other Sources of Stress
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Long-Term Effects of Stress
- Stress Management Program
- Prevent Stress Overload
- Quiz: Stress Management
- Dealing with Trauma
- PTSD & DID
- Trauma Reactions
- Therapy
- Resources
- Determinism
- Worksheet: Mental and Emotional Health
Prevention: Skin, Hair, Nails, & Eyes
- Protect Yourself
- Acne is no fun
- Dandruff
- Fingernails and Eyes
- Worksheet: Prevention: Skin, Hair, Nails, & Eyes
- Essay: Learn about a Topic
ENT, Dental Care, & Digestion
- The Common Cold
- Pollen Allergy
- Healthy Teeth
- Digestive Problems
- Worksheet: ENT, Dental Care, & Digestion
Alcohol & Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- What Is Spit Tobacco?
- Worksheet: Alcohol & Tobacco
Relationships & Sexuality
- Marriage
- Making Marriages Work
- Assignment: Relationships
- Common Experiences
- Quiz: Relationships
- Boys And Girls Health
- Making a Choice about Sex
- Birth Control Methods
- Worksheet: Sexuality
- STDs
- Types of STDs
- What is AIDS
- Essay: STDs
- Preventing STDs
- Worksheet: HIV, AIDS and STDs
Drugs
- Illegal Drugs
- OTC Drugs
- Drug Education
- Worksheet: Drugs
First Aid
- What is First Aid?
- First Aid Misconceptions
- First Aid Overview
- Essential Skills
- Accident Scenes & Drowning
- Heart Attack & Bleeding
- Essay: AED’s
- Choking: Adults and Babies
- Burns & Seizures
- Resuscitation & Poisoning
- Asthma & Anaphylaxis
- Worksheet: Reviewing First Aid
- Quiz: First Aid
Using the Health Care System
- Becoming an Informed Patient
- Specialties
- Midwives and Pharmacists
- Worksheet: Using the Health Care System
Alternative Healthcare Options
- Herbology
- Acupuncture
- Acupressure
- Chiropractic Medicine
- Biofeedback
- Worksheet: Alternative Healthcare Options
Family, Friendship, & Peer Relations
- Student Life
- Society’s Problems
- Essay: Society’s Impact
- Different Kinds Of Families
- Worksheet: Friendship and Peer Relations
- Assignment: Family Patterns
- What is Anger?
- Everyday Anger
- Is Anger Good for You?
- Measure your Anger
- Avoidance of Anger
- Positive Anger Management
- Quiz: Anger
- Assignment: Keep a Hostility Log
- Essay: Bullying
Growth and Development
- Physical Development
- Cognitive Development:
- Psycho-Social Development
- Worksheet: Growth and Development
Environmental Health
- Resources
- Essay: Resources
- Environmental Threats
- Personal Environmental Health
- Recycling
- Quiz: Environmental Health
- Worksheet: Environmental Health
Death and Dying
- 1- Grief
- Coping with the Death of a Family Member
- Loss of a Pet
- Supporting a Grieving Friend
- Essay: Dealing with Loss
- Worksheet: Death and Dying
Final Exam
- Final Exam
- Worksheet: Final Exam Part 1
- Quiz: Final Exam Part 2
- Assignment: Final Project
Course Survey
- Course Survey
- Handout: Course Survey
- Assignment: Course Survey
