Standard of Learning

10.1The student will demonstrate an understanding of health concepts, behaviors, and skills that reduce health risks and enhance the health and well-being of self and others throughout life. Key concepts/skills include:

1. the impact of healthy and poor nutritional choices;
2. the effects of an active and sedentary lifestyle;
3. the effects of tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, and other drug use;
4. behaviors that result in intentional and unintentional injury.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will identify behaviors that result in intentional and unintentional injuries.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• give examples of intentional and unintentional injuries.
• explain how to prevent unintentional injuries:
  • motor vehicle safety - wear safety belts and observe traffic laws;
  • exercise safety - take precautions to minimize sports injuries;
  • sports safety - wear appropriate protective equipment;
  • water safety - check for depth or obstacles before diving, do not swim alone;
  • prevent poisoning - read medicine labels, avoid toxic vapors; and
  • fire safety - handle chemicals with care, check smoke alarms, etc.
• explain how to prevent intentional injuries:
  • avoid guns and alcohol and other drugs;
  • avoid gangs and gang-related activities;
  • develop conflict mediation skills;
  • develop healthy ways to control anger;
  • build self-esteem; and
  • limit exposure to events, activities, etc., that glamorize violence.

Lesson Ideas

• Using scenarios, students compare different approaches to decision-making then review the Choices and Consequences Model for decision-making. Students use scenarios to work through the model in small groups.
• Crime Scene Investigator- give students a scenario and have them brainstorm what risky behaviors may have led to this incident and what types of positive behaviors or decisions could have been made to prevent this situation.

Sample Lessons

Design and Implement a Personal Fitness Plan
Students, through self-evaluation, create and implement a personal fitness plan to be carried out over ten physical education classes. Plan based on FITT principle, components of fitness, overload principle, specificity, safety and proper technique of all equipment, motivational and monitoring techniques and strategies.
Sponsor: Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/fitforlife
Free

Discoveryschool.com> Extreme Measures: Body Image
Students learn to identify specific physical and emotional characteristics within themselves and others, demonstrate an understanding of the importance of personal diet and exercise, and demonstrate skills necessary to record personal data.
Sponsor: Discovery School
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/extrememeasures/
Free

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
Grades: High School
Law enforcement and the school district join to educate students about the personal and social consequences of substance abuse. Includes strategies for anger management, violence prevention, making healthy choices.
Contact: http://www.dare.com

In the Mix: "Suicide Prevention"
Grade(s): 7-12
This Lesson plan is designed for students in middle school and all the way up through high school.  Students will use cards to sort and understand a large quantity of information regarding suicidal teens, then apply what they learn to analyses of case studies.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/depression2/index.html
Free

In the Mix: "What is Depression"
Grade(s): 9-12
In this lesson, students will examine teenage depression: what it's all about, how it feels, and ways to deal with it. This will be accomplished by small group discussions, recalling life events that trigger depressive episodes, self-reflection and topic research. Upon completion, students will have a better understanding of depression and how it relates to their own lives.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/depression1/index.html
Free

Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT)
Grades 5-10
Model program to prevent or reduce tobacco use in youth. Ten core and 2 booster lessons. Includes effective refusal and coping skills; effects of media and advertisers; methods to build self-esteem; and strategies for advocating no tobacco use.
Sponsor: Department of Preventive Medicine, USC
Contact: http://www.etr.org
Cost

Risky Business
Grades 6-12
Through this lesson students will review the possible consequences of making risky choices, become familiar with statistics involving teens, and create and play a board game designed to show how bad choices can lead to setbacks.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/riskyBusiness/
Sponsor: Discovery Education
Free

Safety Lesson
Grades 9-12
This lesson will review or introduce personal safety concepts in a variety of areas common to the lives of students.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=935
Sponsor: PE Central
Free

Samaritans: "Understanding Depression"
Grade(s): 8-10
The purpose of this lesson is for students to hopefully learn about some of the ways they may be able to help someone who is feeling depressed.  Also they might be able to identify with why someone might be feeling depressed or hopeless, and to recognize the signs that indicate that someone is becoming depressed.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B1UnderstandingDepression.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Understanding Self-Injury"
Grade(s): 8-10
In this lesson students will be taught to challenge misconceptions surrounding self-injury, and to discuss routes to find help and support.  Along with learning those skills, students will also learn to practice how to help support someone who is self injuring and to understand what self-injury is.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B2UnderstandingSelf.pdf
Free

Samaritans" "Understanding Suicide"
Grade(s): 8-10
In this lesson students will identify when someone may be seriously considering suicide and will dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings about suicide.  Then while participating in those activities, they will learn about some of the ways that students may be able to help someone who is feeling suicidal.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B3UnderstandingSuicide.pdf
Free

Seat Belt Safety Report
Grades 9-12
After having students read a CNNfyi Article on "Buckle Down on Seat Belt Use" they will discuss the importance of wearing a seat belt.
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/lesson.plans/05/22/seat.belts.da/
Sponsor CNN
Free

"Teen Life Counts Suicide Prevention"
Grade: 10
Students take part in a four-day "suicide prevention program" in their sophomore year. It is a very active learning experience in which every student is called upon to answer questions in class and to take part in discussions. They learn the signs and symptoms of depression as well as myths about suicide and depression.
http://www.jsea.org/FileUploads/Guidance-Bonitatibus.pdf
Free

Violence Prevention
Grades 6-12
Students will be able to recognize and explain that violence is learned and often carried out through the media. Students will also be able to identify nonviolent scenarios and be able to reconstruct a violence situation into a nonviolence situation.
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=30
Sponsor: PE Central
Free

Additional Instructional Resources

• American Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
• Bullying Resources compiled by the California Department of Education - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/se/bullyres.asp
• CDC-National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Fact Sheets - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/cmprfact.htm
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - http://www.colorado.edu/cspv
• Center for Prevention of Violence - http://www.Colorado.EDU/cspv/index.html
• Centers for Disease Control - http://www.cdc.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
• Children's Safety Network - National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource - http://www.childrensafetynetwork.org
• The Educators Reference Desk- School Safety - http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health/Safety
• Guidance Counselor
• Health Teacher (membership fee) - http://www.healthteacher.com
• Injury Control Resource Information Network - http://www.injurycontrol.com
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - http://www.hwysafety.org
• Kansas Bullying Prevention Program, Statewide Bullying Campaign - http://www.kbpp.org/
• Mental Health Agencies
• National Bullying Prevention Campaign Webcast - http://www.mchcom.com/archivedWebcastDetail.asp?aeid=250
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
• National Crime Prevention Council - http://www.ncpc.org
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
• National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org
• National Youth Gang Center - http://www.iir.com/nygc/maininfo.htm
• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC) - http://www.safeyouth.org
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Program - nationally recognized model program to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying - http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/
• Partnership Against Violence Network - http://www.pavnet.org
• Prevention Pathways Online Courses, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention - http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/bully/bully_intro_pg1.htm
• PREVENT, Preventing Violence Through Education Network and Technical Assistance, University of North Carolina - http://www.prevent.unc.edu/
• Safe America - http://www.safeamerica.org
• School Nurse
• Stop Bullying Now! Campaign, Human Resources And Services Administration - http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov
• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) - http://www.saddonline.com
• U.S. Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service - http://www.ncjrs.org
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
• Virginia Best Practices in School-based Violence Prevention - http://www.preventviolenceva.org
• Virginia Center for School Safety - http://www.virginiaschoolsafety.com
• Virginia Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.safeanddrugfreeva.org
• VDH, Center for Injury & Violence Prevention (CIVP) - http://www.vahealth.org/civp
• Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles - http://www.dmv.state.va.us
• Virginia Youth Violence Project, University of Virginia - http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/
• What New Zealand Police are doing about bullying - http://www.police.govt.nz/service/yes/nobully/whats_bullying.html
• Youth Violence Fact Sheet, Center for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/yvfacts.htm

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• prepare a poster presentation on the rise of random violence in society today.
• identify causes of teen violence.
• identify the five leading causes of injury death for teenagers.
• list and provide prevention for injuries common to five different sports.

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