Health

Health — Grade 6

The Grade 6 health curriculum is designed to meet students where they are developmentally, to fully engage their hearts, hands, and minds through collaborative learning, projects and discussions, and provide a safe space where students can ask and answer questions, at an often confusing time in their life. Preparing to live a healthy lifestyle and develop healthy relationships, personal identity, awareness, and social dynamics, as well as online safety and conduct are central tenets of the course. Students will learn how to navigate life in Middle School as they grow in their ability to identify and set meaningful goals and manage their time to provide balance in their lives.

Health — Grade 7

As students in Grade 7 build their autonomy and independence, the Grade 7 health course is designed to assist each student in developing and maintaining a lifestyle that promotes wellness by providing accurate and up-to-date healthrelated information as the foundation for making educated, responsible, and healthy personal decisions. In Grade 7 health, students learn to design their own plans for establishing healthy nutrition and physical fitness. They will create a food truck that combines fitness and nutrition so it directly impacts a specific body system. The students will also be asked to examine internal and external environmental choices that will affect their overall wellness.

Health — Grade 8

The Grade 8 health curriculum prepares students to apply what they’ve learned in previous years and to become their own advocate for a healthy lifestyle. Through a variety of hands-on activities, class discussions, writing, and creating exercises, students focus on mental health, avenues for getting help for themselves or others in need, dating and romantic relationships, as well as an in-depth look at body systems. As students begin their final year in Middle School, they are in a unique position as they begin to navigate the many challenges that come with adolescence. Making connections about the systems within their body and how they are affected by the choices they make, students will consider the effects of stress on the body, explore which stress management techniques work the best for them, and implement plans to create their own solutions to daily stresses.