Grade 9 - Health & PE

Health B - Semester 2 (Credit: 0.50)

Semester B focuses on the developmental aspects of being human and healthy. Students learn about some of the more dramatic changes that the human body experiences from birth to death. They explore topics related to aging and sexuality and identify ways to remain healthy and safe throughout life's major events and challenges. As in Semester A, this part of the course emphasizes what students can do to improve or maintain their own health and encourages them to be a positive influence on family and friends. Each lesson helps identify ways that students might use what they have learned in the lesson in their own lives.

Major Concepts:

Substance Abuse
Sexuality and Reproductive Health
Infectious Diseases
Cancer Types and Risk Reduction
Human Development and Aging
Death and Dying
Stages of Grief