JR. HIGH HEALTH
Jr. High Health is a mandatory course for all 7th grade students. Students participate in Health Class for one semester, and usually take Home and Careers opposite their Health Class.
Once out of Jr. High, all students must again take Health during one semester of their High School career in order to graduate.
Subjects taught in the 7th grade course include:
~Social Health: Relationships with Family and Friends
Peer Pressure and Health Choices
Dating Relationships and Marriage
Parenting
~Mental-Emotional Health: Risk Behaviors and Precautions
The Decision-Making Process
Goal Setting
~Physical Health: Changes during Adolescence
Reproductive systems
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Communicable Diseases, including STD's
Drug Education