HEALTH
CLASS SYLLABUS
School Year 1999-2000
First Semester
A. Making Healthy Choices
1. An introduction
to health
2. Personal care and
appearance
3. Your sense organs
B. Mental Health
1. Developing a healthy
personality
2. Healthy emotions
3. Managing stress
4. Treating mental
disorders
C. Nutrition
1. Understanding nutrition
2. Planning a diet
3. Digestion and excretion
Second Semester
D. Human Development
1. Family life
2. Growth and development
3. Reproduction and
heredity
E. Substance Abuse
1. Tobacco
2. Alcohol
3. Preventing drug
abuse
F. Modern Health Problems
1. Infectious diseases
2. Non-infectious
diseases
3. Selecting health
care
4. Public health
5. Personal safety
G. Physical Fitness
1. Bones and muscles
2. Circulation and
respiration
3. Coordination and
control
4. Lifelong fitness