Plano ISD High School Health
Course Outline
- Unit One - What is Health?
- Controllable/Uncontrollable Risk Factors
- Leading Causes of Death
- Six Components of Health
- Goals/Making Good Decisions
- Communication
- Stress and How to Deal with it
- Mental Health
- Types of
- Causes of
- Suicide
- Unit Two - Nutrition and Fitness
- Benefits of being active
- Common injuries and how to treat them
- Food Labeling
- Problems with being overweight
- Eating Disorders
- Nutrition
- Definitions
- Six types of nutrients
- Unit Three - CPR/First Aid
- How to perform CPR on an adult, child, and infant victim
- How to help someone who is choking
- Knowledge of how to use an AED
- Basic first aid information
- Unit Four - Diseases and Disorders
- Causes of Infectious Diseases/Types of Pathogens
- How infectious diseases are spread
- How we fight infectious diseases
- Controllable and Uncontrollable risk factors
- Disorders and Disabilities
- Lifestyle (non-infectious diseases)
- Heart Disease
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Unit Five - Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco
- Effects of Alcohol
- Alcohol Laws
- Effects of all tobacco products
- Effects of Illegal Drugs and the Most Abused Drugs by Teens
- Unit Six - Distracted Driving
- Causes of most teenage motor vehicle accidents
- Ways to prevent distracted driving
- Unit Seven - Adolescence to Adulthood
- Examine all the different stages of life.
- Learn to make a budget
- Unit Eight - P.A.P.A. (Parenting and Paternity Awareness)
- Effects of being a teenage parent
- Statistics
- Legal definitions about being a legal father
- Healthy dating Characteristics, Healthy Marriage Characteristics, Healthy Family Characteristics
- Unit Nine - Dating Violence/Violence
- Definitions and effects of Violence, Abuse, and Domestic Violence
- Definition and effect of Sexual Harassment
- Definition of Sexual Assault and Rape
- Effects of violence on Children
- Unit Ten - Human Sexuality
- The importance of abstinence
- Male and Female Reproductive systems
- Birth and birthing process
- STD’s causes and effects
- HIV/AIDS causes and effects