Course Overview

Health Quest is a health science elective course for upper elementary and junior high students. The curriculum introduces students to the concepts of what good health is, why good health is important, and what students should do in order to achieve good health.

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:

Objectives

  • Demonstrate an awareness of health as it applies to their own bodies, minds, and emotions.
  • Demonstrate an awareness of health as it applies to their living environments.
  • Identify the components of a healthy lifestyle and set reasonable goals to achieve a lifestyle of wellness.
  • Understand that incorporating sound health practices creates a lifestyle of moderation and wellness.
  • Understand the responsibility of properly stewarding the bodies God has given them as directed in the Bible.
  • Describe health as it applies to broader society, the world, and their own responsibility to stimulate good health around them.

Unit Overview

Unit 1: Your Body

This unit introduces the different systems in the human body, showing how the body develops from birth through childhood, during adolescence, and in adulthood.

Unit 2: Your Feelings, Emotions and Behaviors

This unit demonstrates to students how they may develop good practices as they promote proper mental, emotional, physical, and social health.

Unit 3: Your Nutrition and Fitness

This unit teaches how to establish healthy eating practices and proper fitness routines.

Unit 4: Play It Safe!

This unit focuses on safety, emergency care, and disease prevention.

Unit 5: Being a Good Steward

This last unit discusses how students may apply the principles of good stewardship, covering topics like pollution, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

 
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