Lesson Plans

All work is done in class except studying for test.

Week 1 Personal and Consumer Health ()

bell ringers every day, we will do a letter to yourself, goals worksheet, video quiz on hygiene, and video quiz on culture similarities and differences

Week 2 Mental Health ()

bell ringers every day, worksheet on personality, stress test, video quiz on anxiety and personality disorders, coat of arms, and watch a beautiful mind and have a quiz

Week 3 Family and Social Health ()

bell ringers every day, watch a video on conflict and have a quiz, watch a video about family and take a quiz, a worksheet on listening and speaking with I messages, a worksheet on different communication types, and a friendship worksheet

Week 4 Human Growth and Development ()

bell ringers every day, color a baby color sheet, watch a video about life and take a quiz

Week 5 Disease Prevention and control ()

bell ringers every day, do a worksheet on different diseases that works across the curriculum, a worksheet about the immune system and how aids effects, use the book to do worksheet on diseases

Week 6 Nutrition and fitness ()

bell ringers every day, watch Fat like me and take quiz, silly syllable scramble, digestive color sheet, crack the code, then label the 50 states and color which states contain certain grains, and do a worksheet from the book on nutrients and the proper way to lose and gain weight

Week 7 Substance abuse and prevention ()

bell ringers every day, tobacco packet, drug worksheets, use the Truth about Drugs workbooks in class to answer questions about drugs, worksheet on how drugs affect a fetus, types of drug abuse worksheet, design a t- shirt to get people to say no to drugs, tobacco, or alcohol, and do a worksheet on analyzing a cartoon

Week 8 Community and Environmental Health ()

bell ringers every day, watch a video and have quiz on the Mississippi river and how it effects our environment, and use textbook to do worksheet on the environment from textbook

Week 9 Safety and First aid and Final ()

bell ringers every day, do safety workbook, use book to answer worksheets on weather and first aid, watch video about first aid and have a quiz, and then learn the basic steps of CPR
Exam Week ()

Each week we have vocabulary and Unit test on Thursday and Friday.

Links to the Notes and Power-points can be found on the assignments page and on the post page.

Here is the formal state competencies from the Mississippi Department of Education.

Week 1 Competency

Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle
Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer
Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health

Week 2 Competency

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors that contribute to positive mental health.
Describe how stress influences mental health.
Define functional and organic mental disorders and state controls for each.

Week 3 Competency

Describe how the skills of communication, cooperation, and advocacy are essential for healthy relationships.
Describe why the family is the basic social unity of society.

Week 4 Competency

Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.
Examine health practices to be considered before, during, and after pregnancy.
Identify physical, mental, and emotional changes that occur from childhood through adolescence.
Examine the aging process from adulthood through death.

Week 5 Competency

Week 6 Competency

Week 7 Competency

Week 8 Competency

Identify community health-care agencies, health careers, and the importance of family medical records.
Explain how the environment affects people and how people affect the environment.

Week 9 Competency