1. Danielle Loveless Lansing High School Health Teacher

2.  Health education instills in students the knowledge and skills to examine alternatives and make responsible health-related decisions. Drawing on knowledge from the biological, environmental, psychological, social, physical and medical sciences, health education helps students learn to prevent and manage health problems.

3.  Introduction/Review of health concepts  Review the three sides of the health triangle taught in the middle school health program  Families and Relationships  Advocacy center (community resource )  Stress  Yoga and meditation  Mental Health  Unit project to learn about a variety of mental disorders  Learn the history of treatment

4.  Reproductive System  Review of Male/Female Anatomy  Communicable Diseases  Non-Communicable Diseases  Nutrition/Fitness  Three day food log activity  Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco  Unit project focusing on long-term/short-term effects of a specific drug

5.  This is a half year - elective course offered to juniors and seniors.  Focus is placed on nutrition and exercise on one’s body.

6. Topics of discussion:  The digestion system  Relationship of food and disease  Nutrients – macro and micronutrients  How to read food labels  Food/Cooking labs  Analysis of our eating habits

7. Topics of Discussion:  Components of Fitness  Evaluate the role of exercise and disease  Analysis of personal fitness (use of heart rate monitors, calculate target heart rate, develop a personalized exercise plan)