1. PCH Lesson 1
9.PCH.1 Analyze wellness, disease prevention, and recognition of symptoms
9.PCH 1.1 Recognize that individuals have some control over risks for communicable and chronic disease

2. Table Of Contents
Set up your table of contents Make 3 columns on a sheet of notebook paper 1st Column: Page Number 2nd Column: Title 3rd Column: Date You must have this completed for each test or notebook check!

3. Cover Page
Name
4 pictures that describe you, your personality, interest, family
May color or make a collage
11201 Old Stavesville Rd, Huntersville NC

4. Warm Up What does health mean to you?
Using a blank sheet of paper, write a slogan or sentence describing what health means to you or why it is important?
Next, draw a picture to accompany your slogan.
*If you were absent last class, you need to make up your cover page! (ask a neighbor)

5. PCH Lesson 1 Statement of Objectives
We know that there are a lot of behaviors that make us healthier. By the end of the lesson, you will conclude we have some control over risks for communicable and chronic diseases

6. Get Acquainted with Health
The goal is to find a classmate that practices each of the healthy behaviors and get as many signatures as possible

7. Discussion
Which were easier to find and which were more difficult to find?
What might be the risks or potential consequences for a person not practicing the behavior?

8. There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk
What do you think the hole represents?
How does the person “react” the first two times?
What changes in the attitude on the third time?
What does he/she do differently the 3rd time?
What is the importance of the choice made the 4th time?
What parallels can you see between the person in this story and choices some teens have made in life so far?
What can we learn from doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results?

9. No Risk, Possible Risk, High Risk
Make a chart with 3 columns on your paper.
Place in the chart the possible risk activities to where you think they belong.

10. Risk Factors
Show Appendix 3A, 3B

11. Serious Health Risks for Youth
Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence
Tobacco use
Alcohol and other drugs
Sexual risk factors
Unhealthy dietary behaviors
Physical inactivity
PAGE 4: PCH NOTES

12. The leading causes of death in the United States can be prevented, to a large extent, by improving personal health choices. There personal choices require an individual to go through a decision making process throughout the day. Before a high school student arrives at school each day, he or she has intentionally and/or inadvertently made dozens of decisions.
Examples of these decisions- Whether or not to take a shower, what to eat for breakfast, whether to ride the bus, drive themselves, or ride with a friend, whether or not to wear a seatbelt, whether or not to drive safely.

13. Responsible Decision Making
Is crucial to living a healthy lifestyle and it requires skill and practice

14. Decision Making Steps Identify the decision, which needs to be made
Gather relevant information from reliable sources
List possible choices
List the positive and negative outcomes of each choice
Determine who could possibly be affected by your choice
Determine who is influencing your choice
Determine which choices have the most positive and the least negative outcomes
Act upon your choice
Evaluate the decision

15. Take Control Use the decision making model to reduce a risk
We will first take control together, by determining how to maximize our control over the prevention of skin cancer
Take Control WS

16. Guided Practice
Next, you will use the take control worksheet and complete it on your own. Choose one of the following.
HIV, asthma, Diabetes, heart diseases, strep, cancer, influenza

17. Independent Practice/ Closure
Health Continuum Worksheet: How healthy are you?