HEALTH

In Health, students develop skills that will make them health-literate adults. Students gain a deeper understanding of the knowledge and behaviors they use to safeguard their health, particularly pertaining to health risks. Students are taught how to access accurate information that they can use to promote health for themselves and others. Students use problem-solving, research, goal-setting and communication skills to protect their health and that of the community.

This course is designed to be taken in the 9th or 10 grade. However, with parent permission, this course may be delayed until grade 11 or 12, taken by correspondence, or taken for dual college credit. The health requirement may also be met by successful completion of one credit of Health Science Technology Education, or student may take Anatomy and Physiology and receive credit for health upon successful completion of the health credit-by-exam.