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Grades
7-8
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Intentional
&
Unintentional Injuries,
Including Violence Prevention |
The
Two "R's" for Stopping Assault and Preventing Violence
Content
- Healthy and harmful relationships
- Causes of conflict; how conflicts
can escalate
- Influences that promote and
discourage violence
- Characteristics and laws related
to sexual harassment and abusive relationships
- Resources to stop assault and
prevent violence
Skills
- Resolve conflicts:
- listening
- expressing emotions and thoughts
- showing empathy
- managing anger
- responding to anger
- problem solving/negotiation
- De-escalate intimidation
- Avoid and escape violence
- Maintain personal safety
- Deal with sexual harassment
- Deal with abusive relationships
- Help others
- Advocate for nonviolence
- Access resources
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| Tobacco
Use |
It's
No Mystery: Tobacco Is a Killer
Content
- Health benefits of abstaining from
use
- Health, legal, social and
financial consequences of use
Skills
- Analyze influences to use tobacco
- Abstain from use (refusal)
- Support others who abstain
- Support others who want to quit
- Counter negative influences
- Promote the norm of abstinence
- Avoid secondhand smoke
- Access resources
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What's
Food Got to Do With It?
Content
- Health benefits of eating:
- foods from the five food groups
- recommended number and size of servings from each food group
- Factors in weight control
- Influence of body image on eating
patterns
Skills
- Read food labels
- Select a balanced diet
- Design diets to meet specific
goals
- Plan nutritious meals at fast food
restaurants
- Plan to improve personal dietary
habits
- Analyze
- food packaging and advertising claims
- nutrition information
- Advocate with others for
availability of nutritious foods
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| Alcohol
& Other Drug Use |
Protect
A Friend - Share Your Skills
Content
- Influences that promote drug use
in young people
- Rules and laws related to drugs
- Health, social, and legal
consequences of drug use
- Resources for drug-related
information and help
Skills
- Evaluate internal and external
pressures to use drugs
- Express opinions, thoughts, and
feelings
- Solve problems
- Refuse
- Identify trouble
- Promote drug-free messages to
peers
- Apply a personal commitment to
living drug fre
- Access resources
NOTE: "Drug" refers to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
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| Physical
Activity |
It's
Time to Move!
Content
- Benefits of regular physical
activity
- Recommended amount and types of
physical activity for health benefits
- Consequences of being inactive
- Barriers to being active
- Strategies to overcome barriers
Skills
- Analyze influences which encourage
physical activity
- Set personal physical activity
goals and monitor progress
- Promote physical activity among
peers
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Sexual
Behaviors
that Result in
Unwanted Pregnancies
& STDs, Including
HIV |
HIV,
AIDS and Other STDs
Content
- Consequences of STDs on a person's
life
- How STDs are and are not
transmitted
- Health risks of different
behaviors
- Situations requiring professional
health services
- Resources for information ant help
related to STDs
Skills
- Apply strategies to promote
abstinence
- Avoid and escape risky situations:
- communication
- refusal
- identifying trouble
- Plan to stay free of STDs
- Influence peers by modeling
positive behaviors
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