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High School Health is a health science elective course that introduces students to what good health is, why good health is important, and what students should do in order to achieve good health. 

Students will be able to demonstrate an awareness of health as it applies to their own bodies, minds, and emotions, an awareness of health as it applies to their living environments, identify the components of a healthy lifestyle and set reasonable goals to achieve a lifestyle of wellness, understand that incorporating sound health practices creates a lifestyle of moderation and wellness, and understand the responsibility of properly stewarding the bodies God has given them as directed in the Bible.

UNIT 1 - BODY ESSENTIALS

UNIT 2 - PHYSICAL HEALTH

1. Course Overview
2. The Head and Crown of Creation
3. Anatomy and Physiology
4. Quiz 1: Building Blocks of the Body
5. Nervous System and Circulatory System
6. Activity: Your Adaptive Heart  (Complete this assignment Activity Your Adaptive Heart)
7. Respiratory, Skeletal, and Muscular System
8. Digestive, Excretory, Endocrine, and Integumentary System
9. Immune, Lymphatic, and Reproductive System
10. Quiz 2: Body Systems
11. Growth and Development
12. Activity: Fetal Development  (Complete this assignment Fetal Development)
13. Childhood Development
14. Adolescence
15. Adulthood
16. Quiz 3: Stages of Development
17. Test
18. Alternate Test
19. Reference

1. Benefits of Proper Nutrition
2. Carbohydrates
3. Vitamins
4. Activity: Your Favorite Foods  (Complete this assignment Your Favorite Foods)
5. Quiz 1: Essentials of Nutrition
6. Developing Proper Eating Habits
7. Dairy Group and Protein Group
8. Activity: Got Calcium?
9. Food, God's Tasty Gift
10. Healthy Eating Habits
11. Quiz 2: Eating the Right Foods
12. Exercise and Physical Fitness
13. Activity: Heart Rate  (Complete this assignment Heart Rate)
14. Muscular Endurance and Strength
15. Exercise Program
16. Quiz 3: Exercise and Physical Fitness
17. Test
18. Alternate Test
19. Reference

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UNIT 3 - SOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

UNIT 4 - PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE AND FIRST AID

1. Aspects of Health
2. Love
3. Activity: Examine Yourself  (Complete this assignment Examine Yourself)
4. Mental and Emotional Health
5. Quiz 1: Mental, Social, and Emotional Health
6. Social Health
7. Friends
8. Speaking in Love
9. Quiz 2: Social Interaction
10. Personal Hygiene
11. Teeth, Mouth, Eyes, and Ears
12. Activity: Hygiene Habits  (Complete this assignment Hygiene Habits)
13. Quiz 3: Personal Hygiene
14. Test
15. Alternate Test
16. Reference

1. Safety
2. Home Safety
3. Home Safety II
4. Home Safety III
5. Activity: Home Safety  (Complete this assignment Home Safety)
6. Quiz 1: Home Safety
7. Safety Guidelines
8. Personal Safety
9. Activity: Moving Violations
10. Water Safety
11. Weather Safety
12. Quiz 2: Personal Safety and the Environment
13. First Aid
14. Evaluating the Scene
15. Wounds and Bleeding
16. Burns and Other Emergencies
17. Activity: Making a Splint  (Complete this assignment Making a Splint)
18. Hypothermia, Frostbite, and Heat Stroke
19. Quiz 3: First Aid
20. Test
21. Alternate Test
22. Reference

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UNIT 5 - RESPONSIBLE LIVING

1. Disease and Prevention
2. Childhood Immunizations
3. Activity: Your Shots
4. Non-Infectious Diseases
5. Activity: Major Diseases  (Complete this assignment Major Diseases)
6. Health Care
7. Quiz 1: Diseases and Health Care
8. Drug Use and Abuse
9. Drug Use and Abuse 2
10. Alcohol
11. Activity: Interview on Alcohol Use
12. Tobacco
13. Activity: Smoking, A Wise Choice?  (Complete this assignment Smoking)
14. Quiz 2: Substance Abuse
15. Health and the Environment
16. Activity: Mother Earth  (Complete this assignment Mother Earth)
17. Water Essentials
18. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
19. Quiz 3: Health, Pollution, and the Environment
20. Test
21. Alternate Test