Health

Curriculum Map

Too Good for DrugsGrade: 8

Enduring Understandings:

Health concepts are essential for wellness and a health-enhancing lifestyle.

Essential Questions:

  • What choices should you make to act and grow responsibly?
  • How can the choices you make today, influence your future health and happiness?

Common Core Standards / Pennsylvania Standards / Content / Skills / Assessment
CC.3.6.6-8.C.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience. / 10.2.6.A, 10.2.6.D, 10.1.6.C, 10.1.6.D, 10.1.6.E, / Lesson 1
Go for Your Goals
Lesson 2
Teenagers Talk
Lesson 3
Communication: Look, Listen and Ask
Lesson 4
Assert Yourself
Lesson 5
Teens and Tough Decisions
Lesson 6
Tobacco: Nasty!
Lesson 7
Al K. Holic
Lesson 8
Get Attractive, Get Real
Lesson 9
The Truth About Drugs
Lesson 10
Wheel of Fortune /
  • Develop personal goals
  • List steps for reaching a goal
  • Demonstrate how to picture yourself overcoming obstacles to reach your goal
  • Discuss how famous people overcame obstacles and persevered to reach their goals
  • Discuss five areas of adolescent development
  • Discuss behaviors that can interfere with positive adolescent development
  • Discuss the ups and downs of being an adolescent
  • Define communication
  • Discuss three important elements of communication
  • Demonstrate active listening skills
  • Discuss the benefits of using active listening skills
  • Differentiate between assertive, passive and aggressive communication styles
  • List the verbal and non-verbal characteristics of assertive, passive and aggressive communication styles
  • Discuss why assertive communication is usually the most effective style
  • Describe his or her own preferred style
  • Perform role plays to practice assertive communication
  • List in priority order what goals and values are most important to him or her
  • Discuss the importance of picturing positive goals and considering consequences
  • Describe how using drugs can interfere with reaching personal goals
  • List why s/he would not use tobacco, alcohol and marijuana
  • Contrast the glamorous image and the nasty reality of using tobacco products
  • Discuss the high cost of using tobacco products
  • Write a letter to persuade a magazine or business to stop advertising tobacco products
  • Discuss the fact that anyone can be an alcoholic
  • List warning signs of alcoholism
  • Describe the effects of alcoholism on the family
  • Describe the effects of alcoholism on teenagers
  • Discuss reasons for the legal drinking age of 21
  • Discuss how society’s emphasis on ideal bodies can damage self-esteem and body image
  • List the dangers of using anabolic steroids to improve body image
  • Describe healthy ways to build attractive bodies
  • Contrast facts and myths about illegal drugs, including hallucinogens, cocaine, inhalants, heroin and marijuana
  • Differentiate between perceived and actual prevalence of drug use among teens
  • Define tolerance, dependence, synergy and withdrawal
  • Recite the school policies concerning illegal and prescription drugs
  • Recite steps for making good decisions
  • Demonstrate effective peer refusal skills
  • Describe positive qualities and other developmental assets in oneself and others
  • Recite consequences of using specific drugs, including tobacco, alcohol and marijuana
  • Recite steps for making good decisions
  • Recite steps for setting and achieving a goal
  • Describe effective communication skills
  • Describe positive ways to be healthy, physically fit and attractive
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Turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones
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A communication Experiment
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Teacher observes role plays
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Teacher observes role play
Persuasive letter
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Quiz on warning signs
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Quiz on anabolic steroids
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The match game
Teacher observes role play
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