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Health Course Outline

This is the course outline for the health class that I teach periods 1-4. This course is one semester long. At the end of the course each student is required to write a paper about a health related topic. Two students can work together on the paper and it must be six pages long. The course also includes many speakers who come to inform the students about health related subjects.

  • Decision Making / Values Clarification
    1. Group dynamics
    2. Understanding personal values
    3. Defense mechanisms
  • Infectious Disease
    1. Airborne
    2. Foodborne
    3. Bloodborne
  • Physical Conditioning
    1. S.A.I.D. principle
      1. Specific Adaptation Imposed Demands
    2. Five things for physical health
      1. Cardiovascular exercise
      2. Good nutrition
      3. Stretching
      4. Strength training
      5. Good Posture
    3. R.H.R.
      1. Resting Heart Rate
    4. T.H.R.
      1. Target Heart Rate
  • Drug Education
    1. Pharmacology
    2. Alcohol and tobacco
  • Nutrition
    1. Good Food, Bad Food
    2. Fats, LDL, HDL, Carbohydrate, Proteins
    3. Vitamins and minerals
    4. Malnutrition and disease
    5. Nutritional supplements
  • First Aid
    1. Breathing
      1. Mouth to mouth resuscitation
      2. Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
      3. Choking
    2. Bleeding
    3. Poisons
    4. Joint/soft tissue injuries
  • Sex Education
    1. Anatomy
    2. Abstinence based education
    3. STD's and STI's
      1. Sexually Transmitted Disease/Infection
    4. Birth control and Contraception
    5. Sexual harassment and abuse

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