Wednesday (1/10) and Thursday (1/11)
Students will be taking their EOC pretest for Health Education. As time permitts the class will continue their study of Health and Wellness.
Students will be taking their EOC pretest for Health Education. As time permitts the class will continue their study of Health and Wellness.
Monday 1-A and Tuesday 1-B/2-B/3-B
Introduction to Health Education
* Expectations: procedures, policies, rituals & routines
Unit 1: Health and Wellness
* Assignment #1 Review and discuss the 'quote for the day', as well as answer three questions provided by your teacher.
* All assignments should be submitted on-time, follow directions, be thorough, legible and demonstrate understanding. All assignments are worth 10 points and are due at the end of class or the next class period.
Introduction to Health Education
* Expectations: procedures, policies, rituals & routines
Unit 1: Health and Wellness
* Assignment #1 Review and discuss the 'quote for the day', as well as answer three questions provided by your teacher.
* All assignments should be submitted on-time, follow directions, be thorough, legible and demonstrate understanding. All assignments are worth 10 points and are due at the end of class or the next class period.
Health Education Study Guide—8th grade (Part 2)
Chapter 6: Mental and Emotional Disorder
Chapter 7: Conflict Resolution
Chapter 15: Alcohol
Chapter 17: Using medicines wisely
Chapter 18: Communicable Disease
Chapter 6: Mental and Emotional Disorder
- Lesson 2: Suicide Prevention
- Teen years can be stressful
- New challenges*Trying to ‘fit-in’*Acceptance by others
- Pressure to success* family changes* divorce, separation or death
- Factors can lead to depression
- Depression
- Feelings of worthlessness, emptiness
- No longer find pleasure in activities you once did
- Many causes: abuse, violence, living situation, bullying, specific problems
- Physical symptoms: loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, weight loss, headaches
- People find it difficult to deal with all that life has presented
- Suicide: the intentional taking of one’s own life
- Mental illness
- Know the warning signs:
- 1. Talking about suicide2.Talking about feelings of hopelessness, guilt
- 3. Pulling away from family and friends4. Loss of interest in normal activities
- 5. Sudden change in personal appearance
- 6. Self-destructive behaviors such as: violence, running away, substance abuse, drop in grades
Giving away possessions
- Attempted suicide is a cry for help
- Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem
- Teen years can be stressful
Chapter 7: Conflict Resolution
- Conflicts in your life
- Definition: conflict is a disagreement between people with opposing viewpoints, interests or needs
- Conflict is a part of life
- Conflicts can be both positive and negative
- What do we learn from the conflict that we are in?
- Conflict can lead to violence
- Conflicts occur for many reasons:
- Lack of respect for a person’s personal property or territory
- Hurt feelings
- Revenge
- Differing Values
- Prejudice
- Conflicts come when people do not accept the differences in others
- Conflicts occur for many reasons:
- Conflicts can be both internal and external
- Conflicts can be provoked or one-sided
- Conflicts at home
- Usually over limits
- Freedom
- Siblings
- Respect
- Space
- Conflicts at school
- Conflicts caused by people seeking power and attention by putting down others:bullying
- Bullying is not always physical, can be words or threats
- Bullying behaviors: teasing or saying something hurtful to another
- Labelling or name calling
- Excluding others from the group
- Sending text messages or emails that are hurtful
- Bullying is NEVER ok
- The Nature of Conflicts
- How to spot a conflict
- Disagreements* strong emotions*body language and behavior
- Must learn to manage your anger and other strong emotions such as jealousy
- People respond to conflict in different ways:
- Find a positive way to manage those feelings in a healthful way
- What are the warning signs of building conflict?
- If you recognize the signs then you have a greater likelihood of managing your feelings and energy
- Group pressure can often cause the conflict to escalate
- Using drugs and alcohol only interferes and distorts the conflict or situation making it difficult to problem solve.
- How to spot a conflict
- Lesson 1: Facts about Tobacco
- Tobacco contains harmful substances released when smoked or chewed
- Estimated 4000 chemicals, many are cancer causing
- Forms of tobacco: cigarettes, cigars, pipes and smokeless tobacco
- Large cigars contain as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes (20) and contain up to 90 times more cancer causing chemicals than those found in cigarettes
- Nicotine: an addictive, or habit forming, drug,
- Addictive: capable of causing a user to develop intense craving
- Using any tobacco product increases your risk of heart disease, cancer etc as compared to a nonsmoker.
- Specialty Cigarettes: flavored, electronic or hookah
- Are not considered safe
- Often advertised as such; however, they do carry health risk
- Smokeless tobacco: ground tobacco that is chewed, placed inside the mouth along the gumline, or inhaled through the nose.
- Also called dip, and snuff
- Risk of oral cancer and cancer of the gum.
- Tobacco contains harmful substances released when smoked or chewed
- Chemicals in tobacco
- Nicotine
- Tar: dark, thick liquid that forms when tobacco burns
- Covers the alveoli and lining of the lungs
- Impacts breathing
- Emphysema: a disease that results in the destruction of the alveoli in the lungs
- Lung cancer
- Carbon Monoxide
- Reduces the amount of oxygen available to the heart, and brain
- Death
- Lesson 2: Health Risks of tobacco Use
- Who is the surgeon general?
- Health warnings added to pack labels in 1964
- More than 400,000 people die each year from smoke related illnesses
- Smoking damages and interferes with the growth and development of teens
- Increases heart rate and blood pressure
- Tobacco users tend to get sick more often and stay sick longer.
- From the moment someone stops smoking their body begins to change/repair.The risk of lung cancer goes down.
Chapter 15: Alcohol
- Alcohol is a drug created by a chemical reaction in some foods, especially fruits and grains
- Drug or any substance other than food that changes the structure or function of the body or mind
- Alcohol is a depressant (slows down the body…decreased heart rate, breathing, reaction time
- Alcohol can cause people to lose their inhibitions: conscious or unconscious restraint on their behaviors or actions.
- Say and/or do things that they regret.
- Why do some teens use alcohol?
- Peer pressure*Influence of media* Family* Culture
- Reasons to not drink
- 1. Pregnancy and women trying to become pregnant
- 2. Taking medication that shouldn’t be mixed with alcohol
- 3. Recovering from alcohol abuse
- 4. Facing a medical situation in which alcohol would only make it worse
- 5. Driving
- 6.Alcohol interferes with a teens growth and development
- 7. Alcohol will not help you deal with problems or emotional crisis
- Lesson 2 Effects of alcohol Use
- Alcohol affects the brain and CNS within 30 seconds after it is consumed.
- Intoxicated/drunk
- Intoxicated: physically and mentally impaired by the use of alcohol
- BAC: blood alcohol concentration
- Amount of alcohol in the blood
- What is legal intoxication?
- 12 ounces of beer=5 ounces of wine=1.5 ounces of liquor
- These quantities all have the same amount of alcohol in them
- What factors affect how your body deals with alcohol?
- 1. Size2. Gender3.If there is food on your stomach4.How quickly you drink the alcohol
- 5. If you are taking other medication 6.Your mental state at the time
- Short-term effects
- Alcohol affects the brain, stomach, liver and kidneys immediately
- Dehydration
- Increase stomach acid…ulcers
- Blood vessels widen so blood comes closer to skin.Person feels warm but actually their body temperature drops.
- Long-term effects
- Can affect learning and memory—brain
- Enlarged and weakened heart—heart
- Fatty liver and cirrhosis of the liver: scarring and destruction of the liver tissue
- Alcohol and driving
- Slows your reaction time
- Alcohol and pregnancy
- Fetal alcohol syndrome: alcohol-related birth defects that include both mental and physical problems
- Alcohol affects the brain and CNS within 30 seconds after it is consumed.
- Lesson 3: Alcoholism and alcohol abuse
- Alcohol is habit forming
- Addiction affects all three sides of the health triangle
- The disease of alcoholism
- Symptoms of alcoholism
- Cravings
- Loss of control
- Tolerance
- When your body needs more and more of the same drug to produce the same effect
- Physical dependence: shaking, sweating, anxiety
- Symptoms of alcoholism
- Stages of alcoholism
- Disease that develops over time
- Alcoholism starts as a casual drink
- Stage one: abuse: short-term memory loss, blackouts, saying and/or doing harmful things
- State two: dependence: unable to function without a drink
- Stage three: addiction: intoxicated for long periods of time, liver damage, possible malnutrition
- A condition in which the body does not get the nutrients it needs to grow and function properly.
- Alcoholism affects family
- Alcoholic deny that they have a problem.Domestic abuse may occur.Alcoholism alters the whole family.
- Alcohol abuse: using alcohol in ways that are unhealthy, illegal or both
- Road to Recovery
- Learning to live without alcohol
- Detoxification: the physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance
- Support Groups
- AA-alcoholics anonymous for adults
- Al-anon to help families dealing with an alcoholic family member
- Alateen a program designed to helps teens deal with an alcoholic family member
Chapter 17: Using medicines wisely
- Over-the-counter vs. prescription
- What’s on a prescription bottle label?
- 1. Name of prescribing doctor2. Name of medicine3. Strength or amt.4. Expiration date
- 5. Instructions6. Patients name7. Directions8. Prescription number 9. Name of pharmacist.
- How does medicine enter the body?
- Swallowing* injection* inhalation* topical
- Tolerance: the body can build-up a tolerance to medications
- What is antibiotic resistance?
- Antibiotics are to be prescribed for a bacteria, but are of no value if you have a virus
- Using antibiotics in this way helps to create antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Medicine misuse: taking medicine in a way that it is not intended.
- Medicine abuse: intentionally using medicines in ways at are unhealthful and illegal
Chapter 18: Communicable Disease
- A disease that is spread from person-to-person
- Types of pathogens(germs that cause disease)
- Virus*bacteria*fungus*protozoa
- How are they spread?
- 1. Direct contact: touching another person
- 2. Indirect contact: someone sneezes or coughs and pathogens are spread through the air
- 3. Contact with animals or insects
- 4. Contaminated food and water
- The five major barriers between you and pathogens are skin, tears, saliva, mucous membranes, and stomach acid
- The common cold
- A virus
- No cure for the common cold
- First 24 hours you are contagious
- Most common communicable disease
- Other communicable diseases
- The flu* mononucleosis*hepatitis*tuberculosis*strep throat
- Sexually transmitted diseases:
- STDor STI (sexually transmitted infections)
- Some are bacteria and can be treated with an antibiotic while others are viruses and there is not treatment
- Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilisare bacterias
- Genital herpes, HIV are viruses
- Preventing STD/STI
- Abstinence
Health Education Study Guide—8th grade (Part 1)
Health Skills:
What is Health?
Health Skills:
What is Health?
- Definition: Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional and social well-being
- All aspects of health impact each other: the health triangle
- A state of well-being or balanced health over a long period of time.
- Wellness means balancing the three sides of the health triangle
- What is the wellness continuum?
- Disease/sickness------------------------health and wellness
- There is a mind-body connection to your health
- How your overall emotions affect your health and how your overall health affects your emotions
- Factors that affect your health
- Life style factors: or behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health
- Attitude, feelings and beliefs towards your personal lifestyle factors and how they impact your health
- Risk behaviors; things that you choose to do that increase the likelihood of harming your health
- 1. Nutritional choices2. Activity/exercise
- 3. Sleep4. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs
- 5. Following safety rules6. Wearing protective gear
- 7. Relationships
- Cumulative Risks: when one risk factor adds to another to increase the risk of danger/harm.
- Smoking and sedentary lifestyle
- Drinking and drug use
- Poor nutrition, lack of exercise and obesity
- Reducing risk:
- Prevention: taking steps to avoid something
- Choosing abstinence: an active, conscious choice to not participate in high-risk behaviors.
- Staying informed.Being able to advocate for yourself and others
- < >Practicing healthful behaviors
- Managing stress
- Making healthy, positive decisions
- Accessing reliable information
- Analyzing influences such as advertisements, media
- Identifying the sources of information
- Is it reliable, accurate, reputable
- Life style factors: or behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health
- Making decisions and setting goals
- The decision-making process
- Six steps
- 1. State the situation
- 2. List the options
- 3. Weigh the possible outcomes
- 4. Consider your values
- 5. Make a decision and act
- 6. Evaluate the decision
- Setting realistic goals
- Two types of goals: short-term and long-term
- Goals are milestones that tell you how far you have come
- Goals must be realistic and measureable
- I want to do better is not a measurable goal
- Reaching goals can boost your self-confidence
Chapter 1: Communication (pages 1 – 22)
- Types of communication:
- Verbal and non-verbal
- Body language
- Mixed messages: your words say one thing but your body language says another
- I message: convey how you feel about a situation
- You message: tends to blame
- Definition of communication
- The exchange of information through the use of words
- Sharing your opinions, thoughts, ideas, feel
- Communication is the glue that holds relationships together
- We must be a good listener as well as communicator/speaker
- Speaking skills
- Think before you speak
- Make speech clear, concise, simple statements
- Be honest, but not to a fault
- Only give your advice when asked
- Use appropriate body language
- Listening skills
- Wait your turn to speak
- Make good eye contact
- Don’t do other things: stay focused and attentive
- Styles of communication
- Aggressive: you message, defensive, in your face, conflict
- Passive: taken advantage of, stand up for themselves
- Assertive: I message, good listener; win/win situation, look all perspectives
- Lesson 2: Family
- Types of families
- All families have needs
- < >< >< >Needs and responsibilities
- 1. Security2. Economic
- 3. Educationally4. Love, emotional support
- 5. Religious, moral/value training 6. Recreational time
- 7. Reproducing family
- < >< >Physical, emotional, sexual, neglect
- < >< >< >Needs and responsibilities
- Communicate openly and honestly in families to keep relationship strong and growing and to reduce stress
- Lesson 3: peer relationships
- 1. Friends take a greater role of influence then in elementary school.
- 2. Need for acceptance
- 3. Self-esteem: feel 4. Self-concept: concept
- 5. Adolescence: childhood and adulthood
- 6. Friends due to proximity
- < >Sympathy vs. Empathy
- Relationships are always open to new people
- < >Closed group
- How to strengthen friendships
- Spend time together*communicate openly and honestly*help each other
- Respect each other’s differences*encourage each other
- Chapter Two: Dating ( pages 24 – 40)
- What is the appropriate age to begin dating?
- Discuss this with family.
- It’s important to know how to handle the emotional/mental/social connections you have with someone you date.
- Knowing how to ‘break-up’ with someone without hurting them.
- What is the appropriate age to begin dating?
- Primary sex hormones
- Adolescence age
- < >Dating involves the blending of each of these into a mature young person.
- Dating standards
- Know what you believe and will follow
- Establish Before you ever have that first date
- Communication is important
- Discuss your standard
- We become like the people we hang around with
- Influence of drugs/alcohol
- Impact decision-making
- Remove inhibitions
- Increase likelihood of impulse, spontaneous behavior
- Consequences of early sexual activity
- 1. Pregnancy2. STD/STI
- 3. Child4. Abortion/adoption/foster
- 5. Mental and emotional6. Loss of self-respect
- 7. Guilt8. Regret and anxiety
- 9. Change in direction: delayed plans
- Consequences of early sexual activity
- Abstinence: just say no
- Don’t put yourself into a situation that you aren’t prepared for
- Refusal Skills
- Ways to say no
- Stick to your values/beliefs
- Chapter 3: Building Character (pages 44 – 62)
- Be a person of character.
- What is integrity?Doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
- Chapter 4: Bullying ( pages 64 – 80)
- Physical, psychological, and verbal bullying
- Why does bullying happen? Pg. 63
- Why do teens get bullied? Pg. 68
- Why do teens become bullies? Pg. 68
- What are the effects of bullying?Pg. 69
- Cyberbullying pg. 70
- Physical, psychological, and verbal bullying
- How to stop bullying. Pg. 73
- On-the-spot strategies
- Tell a bully to stop* try humor
- Walk away and stay away*avoid physical violencefind an adult
- Do’s and Don’ts
- Don’t let your emotions get the better of you.
- Don’t try to get even
- Don’t tease or be hostile
- Don’t threaten or insult the person
- Warning signs of bullying behaviors page. 76
- Definition: ongoing conduct that offends another person by criticizing his or her race, color, religion, physical disability or gender.
- Sexual harassment: any unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior/activity
- No means No
- Inappropriate jokes, pictures, actions, looks
- On-the-spot strategies