Comprehensive Health
By: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Melanie Lynch, and Melissa MunsellCopyright: 2015
Subject: Health: High School
Grade Level: 9-12
- Comprehensive Health offers a complete solution for high school health classes. All health education information, including pregnancy prevention and sexuality topics, is presented in the text, with no supplements needed. In this up-to-date, skills-based text, health and wellness topics are presented as a dynamic discussion, relevant to students' lives. In addition to the standard topics, the text contains in-depth coverage of sleep, body image, and health across the lifespan. Content and skills are aligned to the National Health Education Standards and the National Sexuality Education Standards.
- Examples of up-to-date coverage not found in other texts include discussions of e-cigarettes, substance abuse in the context of changing laws, cyber-bullying, and other online safety issues.
- Extensive instructor's resources, including videos, lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments, save time and help to create the most appropriate lessons for the classroom.
- Award-winning health teachers created an abundance of classroom-tested activities to engage students as they study key concepts.
- Products & Prices 6-12 Education
- Table of Contents
- Unit I - Introduction to Health and Wellness1. Understanding Your Health and Wellness
2. Risk Factors: Behavior, Genes, EnvironmentUnit II - Nutrition and Food Choices3. Nutrition
4. Body Weight and Composition
5. Body ImageUnit III - Fitness and Personal Health6. Physical Fitness
7. Sleep
8. Personal Hygiene and Basic HealthcareUnit IV - Understanding and Avoiding Hazardous Substances9. Tobacco
10. Alcohol
11. Medications and DrugsUnit V - Diseases and Disorders12. Infectious Diseases
13. Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
14. Noncommunicable DiseasesUnit VI - Mental and Emotional Health and Wellness15. Achieving Mental and Emotional Health
16. Managing the Stress in Your Life
17. Mental Illnesses and DisordersUnit VII - Social Health and Wellness18. Healthy Family and Peer Relationships
19. Dealing with Conflict, Violence, and AbuseUnit VIII - The Human Life Cycle20. Reproduction and Pregnancy
21. Childbirth and Parenting Newborns
22. Human Development across the Life Span
23. Pregnancy Prevention
24. Understanding SexualityBackground LessonsBody Systems
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- Correlations
- CaliforniaCalifornia Health Education Content Standards (PDF, 202 KB)MarylandMaryland Comprehensive Health Standards (PDF, 118 KB)National StandardsNational Health Education Standards (PDF, 117 KB)National Sexuality Education Standards (PDF, 452 KB)New JerseyPennsylvaniaPennsylvania HPE Standards (PDF, 96 KB)TexasHealth I, Grades 9-10 (PDF, 546 KB)West VirginiaHealth – Grade 9 (PDF, 391 KB)
- About the Author(s)