MS Health I Instructional Guide

Strand 3: Safety and Disease Prevention (SDP)

Health I

STRAND 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP)

Safety and Disease Prevention (SDP) helps students understand their role in protecting themselves and others from unintentional danger, risk, injury, or disease. Students will learn and adopt behaviors which will maintain and enhance health. Students will explore how their personal decisions infuence their health and safety. PACING SEQUENCING KEY LANGUAGE USES

15 days - 7 Standards

Unit 4

Inform & Explain

HEALTH I: STRAND 3

Safety and Disease Prevention (SDP) Students will apply practical knowledge and skills to develop lifelong behaviors for personal and community well-being.

K-12 LEARNING SEQUENCE

Grade5

Health II (9-12)

Students will learn to respond effectively to environments and practice decision-making skills for safety and disease prevention.

Students will apply practical knowledge and skills to develop lifelong behaviors for personal and community well-being.

END OF STRAND SAMPLE COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS

● Demonstrate how to apply thoughtful decision-making in health-related situations (for example, substance use, vehicle safety, sun safety, recreational safety, frearm safety, physical activity, nutritional choices) by completing a graphic organizer (or another project) and refecting on the outcomes of health-related decisions. ○ Verbs to describe skills like demonstrate, identify, determine, distinguish, analyze or refect. ○ Nouns to explain concepts like decision making, health-related, graphic organizer, decisions. ○ Key terms to outline substance use, vehicle safety, sun safety, recreational safety, frearm safety, physical activity, nutritional choices.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Essential Health Skills for Middle School Textbook Login Site Botvin Teacher Companion Site Pornography One Pager (for educators) Follett Resources