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Grades
9-12
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Intentional
&
Unintentional Injuries,
Including Violence Prevention |
Managing
Conflicts and Preventing Violence
Content
- Healthy and harmful relationships
- Causes of conflict; how conflicts
can escalate
- Factors that contribute to and
prevent violence
- Consequences of violence
- Characteristics and laws related
to sexual harassment and abusive relationships
- Resources to prevent and avoid
violence
- Individual's responsibility for
safety of self and others
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
- Prevent violence
- Deal with sexual harassment
- Deal with abusive relationships
- Access resources
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| Tobacco
Use |
Teens
Campaign Against Tobacco
Content
- Factors that contribute to
positive health behaviors
- Health benefits of abstaining from
use
- Resources for information, help,
and cessation
- Financial, political, social,
health, and legal issues related to tobacco
- Messages that will encourage youth
not to use or to quit
Skills
- Advocate for the prevention,
reduction, or elimination of use among peers
- Promote a tobacco-free environment
- Abstain from use (refusal)
- Encourage others to abstain
- Quit using
- Encourage others to quit
- Support others who want to quit
- Access resources
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Help
Yourself to Good Nutrition
Content
- Health benefits of eating:
- foods from the five food groups
- recommended number and size of servings from each food group
- Weight management principles and
myths regarding weight loss
- Influence of body image on eating
patterns
- Healthy and unhealthy eating
patterns
Skills
- Plan:
- healthy weight loss/maintenance
- nutritious meals within a budget
- nutritious meals at fast food restaurants
- for improved personal nutrition
- Analyze effects of nutrition on:
- physical activity
- athletic performance
- pregnancy
- fetal development
- Analyze nutrition information and
resources
- Synthesize and communicate
research findings on nutrition
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| Alcohol
& Other Drug Use |
Teen
Voice Solutions
Content
- Scope of adolescent drug use
- Physical, emotional, social, and
economic consequences of drug use
- Impact of environment on the
problem of drug use
- Legal issues related to drug use
among adolescents
Skills
- Evaluate internal and external
pressures to use drugs
- Synthesize and communicate
research findings on reducing drug use
- Communicate assertively
- Refuse
- Solve personal and social problems
- Propose and evaluate possible
solutions for reducing drug use among adolescents
- Communicate a proposed solution to
the problem of drug use to school and/or community representatives
- Access resources
NOTE: "Drug" refers to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
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| Physical
Activity |
Stay
Physically Active-For Life
Content
- Six components of wellness
- Contribution of physical activity
to physical wellness
- Recommended amount and type of
physical activity for health benefits
- Benefits of regular physical
activity
- Consequences of being inactive
- Strategies to overcome barriers
Skills
- Analyze barriers to being active
- Assess current level of activity
- Set personal physical activity
goals
- Advocate for school and community
support of physical activity
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Sexual
Behaviors
that Result in
Unwanted Pregnancies
& STDs, Including
HIV |
School
districts in Michigan choose from available curricular programs or
develop a local curriculum to teach sexuality education and HIV and
other STDs.
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