Standard of Learning

10.2 The student will analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the protective factors related to achieving and maintaining a sound mind and healthy body throughout life. Key concepts/skills include:

1. the empowerment and effectiveness of being assertive;
2. the impact of involvement in school and community activities;
3. the value of exercising self-control;
4. the merits of goal setting;
5. the influence of emotions and peer approval on personal decision-making;
6. the effects of an individual's environment;
7. family health habits and behaviors as they relate to the promotion of health and wellness;
8. the importance of support and encouragement from positive role models.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will analyze the effects the environment has on health, the relationship between family health habits and health promotion, and the importance of support and encouragement from positive role models.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• rank environmental health risks. (air quality, high crime rate, unclean or contaminated water or land, health hazards, etc.)
• explain how the environment affects health.
• evaluate positive and negative factors in the environment.
• recommend ways to improve the environment.
• formulate a list of family health habits. (nutrition, exercise, sleep, driving, hygiene, etc.)
• summarize the effects of family health habits on family wellness.
• identify effects of family health habits on physical activity.
• analyze effects of family health habits on nutrition.
• compare and contrast characteristics of positive and negative role models. (someone that inspires you to choose healthful or harmful behaviors)
• explain how positive role models encourage/support healthy behaviors.

Sample Lessons

Discovery Education: "Eating Disorders: When Food Becomes an Enemy"
Grade(s): 9-12
Students in this lesson will understand the complexity of eating disorders and their possible causes.  Along with starting to understand these disorders, they will also learn to recognize the identifiable symptoms of the most prevalent eating disorders.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/eatingdisorders/
Free

Discovery Education: "Overcoming Eating Disorders"
Grade(s): 9-12
In this lesson, students will learn about two common eating disorders and compare the two.  While learning about these eating disorders, students will then also consider their own body image.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/overcomingdisorders/
Free

Fast Fats: A Nutritional Analysis of America's Obsession with Fast Foods
Grade(s): 10-12
In this three part lesson, students will examine nutrition labels for caloric intake using various snack foods. Then, they will determine the number of calories in a food item. Finally, they will conduct a research project in which they examine the food choices of their classmates.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/health/nutrition.html
Free

Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles: BENEFITS OF LIVING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Grade(s): 9-12
Students will identity the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle: proper nutrition, balancing caloric intake with energy output, and the role of exercise.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=1156
Free

Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles: My Personal Lifestyle
Grade(s): 9-12
Students will analyze their personal lifestyles and compute the proper amounts of exercise, rest and nutrition to provide peak personal performance.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=1253
Free

Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles: SPECIFIC ILLNESSES THAT ARE DIET RELATED
Grade(s): 9-12
Students will identify specific illnesses that are diet related: anemia, osteoporosis, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and eating disorders.
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=1155
Free

Walk Across the Country
Grade(s): 6-12
This lesson plan insists on starting a physical fitness plan after hearing about the FDA  approving a fat substitute for cooking.
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/health/fitness/walkamerica.html
Free

 

Additional Instructional Resources

• Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov
• Environment and Human Health - http://health.usgs.gov
• Local, State, and National Environmental Health Agencies
• Sports, Business, and Media Role Models

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• write a two-page scenario on the effect positive role models have on teenagers.
• design and implement an environmental clean-up project for the school or community.
• design a pamphlet that advocates support for an environmental issue.

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