Eighth grade students take health class for one semester every other day. Curriculum overview:
Decision Making Process
Wellness and Your Total Health
Tobacco and Your Health
Alcohol and Your Health
Drugs and Your Health
Growth and Development
Communicable Diseases
Materials needed: 1" 3 ring binder, page dividers
(it is recommended that students save their health binder from the year before)
Projects: 21-40 Journal Entries
Health Autobiography
Poem
Hot Teen Topic Brochure
The novel A Sudden Silence by Eve Bunting is read during our Substance Abuse Awareness Unit
Throughout the semester Guest
Speakers from the Community are invited to the classroom to share their
expertise on specific topics.
Extra credit is always welcomed....please see me.