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Health

At CREC we strive to ensure that every child learns the skills necessary to make health enhancing decisions regarding their own health and advocate for changes to help improve the health of individuals in their family, school, community and beyond.  These skills are designed to help our students make healthy decisions to improve their health now and throughout their lifetime.

Grades 6 - 8

  • Build Healthy Habits: Students will understand how their strengths, choices, and behaviors support physical, mental, and emotional wellness. They will also learn how to manage health conditions and make healthy decisions.
  • Understand Influences on Health: Students will explore how family, friends, community, society, and the environment affect their health and the health of others.
  • Use Reliable Health Resources: Students will identify trusted adults, health professionals, and accurate sources of information, while learning to recognize and manage misinformation.
  • Communicate Effectively: Students will practice expressing thoughts and feelings clearly, listening actively, setting boundaries, showing consent, resolving conflicts, and demonstrating empathy and compassion.
  • Make Thoughtful Decisions: Students will use decision-making skills to evaluate options, consider consequences, and make choices that support the health and well-being of themselves and others.
  • Set Goals and Track Progress: Students will assess personal health, set meaningful goals, develop plans to reach them, and adjust actions as needed to improve well-being.
  • Practice and Promote Health: Students will demonstrate behaviors that support personal and community health, including safe practices, healthy habits, and advocacy for self and others.
  • Advocate for Health: Students will identify opportunities to promote health and well-being, use advocacy strategies effectively, and evaluate the impact of their efforts.
  • Connect Health Literacy to Outcomes: Students will understand how knowledge about health helps improve personal, community, and societal well-being.

 

Resources for Parents at Home

 

Opt-Out Letter for Growth and Development and HIV/AIDS Education

Middle School

 

For more information, please contact the Health and Physical Education Curriculum Facilitator, Karen Stowe at kstowe@crec.org

  • grade 6
  • grade 7
  • grade 8