ALL THE THINGS YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT 5TH AND 6TH GRADE HEALTH BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

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ALL THE THINGS YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT 5TH AND
6TH GRADE HEALTH BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

• Presented By Mike Solheim

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Health Information

• There are 2 ways to connect online
• 1. www.oregonsd.net
• Rome corners
• Faculty
• Michael Solheim- connects to blog
• Directly to my blog
• http//rcihealth.blogspot.com

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Grading for Health

• Grading
• We grade the same as the rest of RCI.
• We use Outcomes and Study Skills to evaluate the
  students.
• Homework and Tests are graded using the Numbering
  system 1-4.
• This year Health class is implementing parent-
  child homework into each of the 5th and 6th grade
  Outcomes- 5 Minute Education

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Grading in Health

• Study Skills
• Examples of study skills include
• Stays on task
• Produces quality work
• Completes assignments on time
• Organizes work
• Works independently
• Shows respect
• Follows classroom rules
• Cooperates

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Health

• Health is a 1 semester or 12 week class. It
  meets every other day.
• 5th grade
• First Aid
• Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness (AODA)
• Human Growth and Development.
• 6th grade
• Nutrition
• Alcohol and Other Drug Awareness (AODA)
• Human Growth and Development

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Health

• Packets
• Students are expected to use this everyday in
  class. It contains all class information,
  activities and homework!
• Designed to help students be involved in class.
• Test questions are also reviewed daily and
  students are allowed to write these down as well!
• WHY??!?!
• Gives the kids a chance to be responsible on
  their own, and a chance to be really successful
  if they choose.
• If taking a written test, AND their 5 Minute
  Education assignments are completed, they can use
  their packet on the test!!
• If their homework is not completed and they have
  to take a written test, they cannot use their
  packet on the test.

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Health Projects

• Examples
• First Aid Kit, Posters, Power Points, Interviews.
  
• Kids can choose
• Project
• Or
• Test
• Do Not have to take a written test if a project
  is completed!
• No project Written test.

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Health

• 5 Minute Education
• What is it?
• Homework that you, the parent/guardian, have to
  do with your child. You have to write down what
  they explain we did in Health that day in their
  packet. It should only take 5 minutes. More
  if you want.
• WHY?!?!
• Daily reminders are given in class, a written
  reminder is left up in the room at all times.
• This is basically the only outside homework for
  Health!! We do this for each unit.

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First Aid 5TH Grade

• In the first aid unit, 5th graders learn basic
  first aid techniques to deal with the following
  situations
• Accidents and Prevention
• First on the scene and 9-1-1
• Poisoning
• Choking
• Burns
• Bites and Stings
• Bleeding

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AODA 5TH Grade

• In the AODA unit 5th graders learn
• Decide Skills
• Prevalence of Drug use
• Making Friends Skill
• Dangers of
• Tobacco/chewing tobacco
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Cocaine/Inhalants
• Refusal Skills
• Stress
• Living with an Alcoholic

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GROWING UP and CHANGES5TH Grade

• Families
• Values
• Media
• Self- esteem
• Hygiene
• Puberty and Changes
• Reproductive parts
• Menstruation
• Gender roles
• Sexual Orientation

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Families

• Lesson Objective Students will learn the
  importance of family, what family means, and that
  there is not a set style of family.
• Parts of the lesson
• Use balloons in a fun activity that demonstrates
  how families can work really well together, and
  how they dont sometimes.

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Values

• Lesson objective Discuss what values are, where
  they come from, and that parents are the most
  important source of values.
• Parts of the lesson
• Using made up scenarios the students discuss what
  Value should have been used in different
  situations.
• Equality
• Honesty
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Etc.

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Media

• Lessons Objective The students will evaluate the
  information, and messages within commercials,
  magazines, and the internet.
• Parts of the lesson
• Students research in groups, four media venues
  (2 web pages (pbskids.org and bam.gov), TV,
  magazines)
• They present their findings to the class.

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Story of Me

• Lesson Objective The student will review the
  growth and accomplishment they have made from
  birth to present.
• Parts of the lesson Using 2 photos brought into
  class, students will place their photos on a
  worksheet and write down things they have learned
  to do since they have been little. This
  demonstrates how much they have changed already.

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Hygiene

• Lesson Objective Explain healthy hygiene habits
  needed due to changes during adolescence.
• Parts of the lesson View a DVD on hygiene best
  practices. DVD is titled, Brush up on
  Hygiene. Using some puzzles and word searches,
  students will learn in a fun way how to better
  take care of themselves. A checklist will be
  sent home for the students to track their clean
  habits for a week.

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Puberty and Body Changes(Boys and Girls Separate)

• Lesson Objective Examine the physical changes
  that occur during adolescence
• Parts of the lesson
• Discuss whats, whens and whys of adolescence.
• View a video that looks at the changes through
  adolescence, Were Growing Up.
• Worksheet on male and female changes that are
  different or the same.

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Puberty and Menstruation (Boys and girls
separate)

• Lesson Objective Help show some anatomy, growth
  and development, along with the menstrual cycle.
• Parts of the lesson
• View video, Always Changing, Always Growing.
• Explain the path of the egg cell.
• Discuss why it is not okay to make fun of
  menstruation.

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Reproductive Parts

• Lesson Objective Identify which reproductive
  parts are male and which are female.
• Parts of the lesson
• Review of physical changes
• Video, National Geographics reproductive
  Systems, on changes and parts.
• Matching worksheet (male parts to male picture,
  female parts to female picture).
• Students must be able to know which parts belong
  to a male and vice versa. They do not have to
  know where. In 6th grade they will.

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Gender Roles

• Lesson Objective Define and discuss the terms
  stereotype, gender, gender role, and gender
  identity.
• Parts of the lesson
• Examine class gender beliefs through magazine
  ads.
• Define terms
• Homework showing empathy toward the opposite
  gender.

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Sexual Identity/Orientation

• Lesson Objective Define the terms sexual
  orientation, gay, lesbian, straight, homosexual,
  heterosexual, homophobia, and heterophobia and
  discuss why using the terms incorrectly is not
  okay.
• Parts of the lesson
• Tell the students that we are not going to
  discuss our beliefs about right or wrong, we are
  only going to discuss what the terms mean and how
  people can be hurt by using these terms
  incorrectly.
• Define the terms.
• Read a story that shows how people are hurt when
  someone uses terms in a hurtful manner.

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6th grade Nutrition

• Lessons
• Food Guide Pyramid
• Computer Lab assignment- uses the website-
  www.mypyramid.gov
• Reading Food Labels
• Super Size Me Lesson- How Friends may influence
  our food choices
• Super Size Me Lesson- How media and TV can
  influence our choice to eat at McDonalds and
  other fast food places.
• Portion Sizes
• Eating Disorders (2 days)
• Review Game- Jeopardy type questions game
• Test

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6th Grade AODA Lessons

• Introduction day- Tobacco
• Chewing Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Steroids
• Cocaine/Inhalants
• Paper Bag- Peer Pressure
• Addiction
• Refusal Skills
• Inside/Outside- friends influences on us
• Part of the Group- judgments on others
• Media/Advertising- influence on our decisions
• Living with an Alcoholic
• Review and Test

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6th grade Human Growth and Development

• Lessons
• Body Image
• Values
• Decision Making
• Communication
• Self-Esteem
• Cost of raising You
• Stereotyping
• Reproductive Systems- National Geographic
• Transmission Impossible- STIs (sexually
  transmitted infections)
• HIV/AIDS info.
• Staying Safe from Sexual Abuse
• Review and test

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6th grade HGD

• Body Image
• Lesson Objective
• Students will define body image and create
  suggestions for improving and maintaining ones
  body image during puberty.
• Parts of the Lesson
• We look at a website in class, www.bam.gov, that
  helps students see what media does to make
  models/people look the way they do in magazines
  and how this may affect them.

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6th grade HGD

• Values
• Lesson Objective To show how we spend money
  sometimes shows us where our values are.
• Parts of the Lesson
• To play a pretend game/auction to demonstrate
  where our goals and values may be. During
  puberty years, values may change or be
  experimented with. These changing values can be
  a significant factor in the goals we keep and the
  ones we change.

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6th grade HGD

• Decision Making
• Lesson Objective
• Students will demonstrate that what kind of
  information you get, and who you talk to helps us
  make informed decisions.
• Parts of the Lesson Using MMs, the class must
  work together to guess how many MMs are in a
  jar.

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6th grade HGD

• Communication
• Lesson Objective
• Students will learn the different styles of
  communication (verbal, non-verbal, active and
  passive).
• Parts of the Lesson
• They will again play a series of interactive
  games to demonstrate how we communicate with each
  other can help or hurt relationships.
• Example Telegraph- sitting back to back, one
  student draws what other explains.

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6th grade HGD

• Self-Esteem
• Lesson Objective
• What people say to us, and what happens to us
  affects us emotionally and physically. How we
  respond to these events in our lives can boost or
  hurt our self-esteem and emotional well-being.
• Parts of the Lesson The students will interact
  in a relay race that demonstrates how negative
  comments can weigh us down after time. We write
  negative comments on little pieces of paper and
  progressively add them so the students have to
  carry them in a relay race.
• Students will then define terms (sexual
  orientation, gay) and discuss how these terms
  used incorrectly can impact other people.

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6th grade HGD

• Cost of Raising You
• Lesson Objective
• Understanding the realities of parenthood is a
  strategy for pregnancy prevention as well as a
  good way to help students appreciate the tasks
  their parents face.
• Parts of the Lesson Students will add up
  expenses often faced by all families. They will
  quickly learn that it is difficult to make ends
  meet even in the best of circumstances, let alone
  being too young and pregnant.

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6th grade HGD

• Stereotyping
• Lesson Objective
• Students will learn that making decisions or
  forming opinions without sufficient information
  will lead to poor decisions and unfair judgments
  about people.
• Parts of the Lesson
• We begin the lesson with an old experiment using
  eye color as a stereotype and how its silly to
  use that.
• We will play a guessing game with an object in a
  paper bag. Each round the students get to
  increase the amount of knowledge they get about
  the object they are trying to guess. It
  represents how fast we sometimes judge others
  based only on looks and how complex knowing
  someone really is.
• We will define terms Stereotype, gender role,
  and sexism.

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6th grade HGD

• Reproductive System Parts
• Lesson Objective To learn the parts of the
  reproduction system for male and female.
• Parts of the Lesson
• Students will view a video from National
  Geographic on the reproductive system. They will
  label the male and female parts.

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6th grade HGD

• Transmission Impossible
• Lesson Objectives To experience how fast
  diseases can be transferred between people
  (sexually transmitted infections).
• Parts of the Lesson
• Students will participate in a trading card game
  that illustrates the spread of Sexually
  transmitted disease (STD) from one infected
  person to another. It also illustrates how
  abstinent behavior eliminates the risk of
  contracting an STD.
• Students will begin a DVD that explains what
  HIV/AIDS is and how it works in the body. They
  will learn how to protect themselves.
• Terms will be defined abstinence, contraception,
  oral sex, and sexual intercourse.
• Pregnancy options will be presented as well
  child rearing, adoption, and abortion.

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6th grade HGD

• HIV/AIDS
• Lesson Objectives Students will learn what
  HIV/AIDS is and also what it does to the body.
• Parts of the Lesson
• Students will finish viewing a previous DVD on
  what HIV/AIDS is (short- if needed).
• Students will then watch a short story DVD on
  Kristens story- a typical girl who contracted
  HIV/AIDS and died from the disease. It
  demonstrates what the disease can do to someone
  and how it can affect those around you.
• We will then take a myth/fact quiz to better
  understand our own questions about the disease.

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6th grade HGD

• Staying Safe From Sexual Abuse
• Lesson Objective
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of
  sexual abuse and the use of assertive
  communication in potentially threatening
  situations.
• Parts of the Lesson
• Students will read a short skit that will
  generate a discussion about sexual harassment.
• Students will learn 5 ways to stay safe
• Listen to your uh-oh feeling
• Say NO!
• Run Away
• Tell a trusted adult
• Go to a safe place

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6th grade HGD

• Body Jeopardy review game
• Lesson Objective Students review lessons and
  test questions.
• Parts of the Lesson
• Play a review game that goes over all of the test
  questions from the entire unit.