Sex Ed Opt-Out Scope and Sequence

District 211 Comprehensive Sexual Health Freshman Wellness (P144) Opt-Scope/Sequence

The following lessons include content that is required by the ISBE as instructional mandates for the curriculum areas of health, physical education, and safety. The topics covered include the following: human ecology & health, public and environmental health, consumer health, personal health habits, and cancer. Lessons one through eight will be facilitated through an online platform called Edgenuity. In lieu of a traditional assessment, students will demonstrate their learning through the completion of a project during lessons nine and ten.

Critical Learning Standard: Students will demonstrate decision-making skills and responsible behaviors in personal, school, and community contexts and understand the impact of making healthy decisions over the course of their lifetime.

Lesson 1: Environmental Conditions and Safety

Lesson 1 Learning Targets:

Describe how personal choice affects the safety of an exercise environment.
Discuss how extreme heat and cold can influence the safety of physical activity.
Explain methods for maintaining proper fluid balance during physical activity.

Lesson 2: Environmental Health

Lesson 2 Learning Targets:

Critique strategies developed and approved by environmental protection agencies for protecting the environment.
Describe issues related to air quality and its effects on health.
Examine how various types of pollution impact local communities around the world.

Lesson 3: Making Consumer Choices

Lesson 3 Learning Targets:

Analyze health messages delivered through advertisements in the media.
Describe factors that influence consumer decisions about health products, procedures, and information.
Explore the ways in which technology affects the accessibility and reliability of healthcare information.

Lesson 4: Dealing with Consumer Issues

Lesson 4 Learning Targets:

Explain methods for addressing critical health issues that result from fraud.
Identify government agencies, consumer groups, and business organizations in the community and world that advocate for consumer rights.
List and describe common health-related and fitness-related fallacies.

Lesson 5: Stress and Health

Lesson 5 Learning Targets:

Describe how people react to stress physically, emotionally, and behaviorally.
Explain common sources of stress.
Recognize the relationship between stress and disease.

Lesson 6: Healthy Friendships

Lesson 6 Learning Targets:

Discuss resolutions for common difficulties that affect friendships.
List strategies for forming, building and strengthening healthy friendships.
Examine how changes and challenges in the family impact health and wellness.

Lesson 7: Responding to Violence and Abuse

Lesson 7 Learning Targets:

Describe how sources of conflict, violence, and abuse can be minimized.
Identify strategies for remaining safe at home and in the community.
Identify the causes and influences of various types of violence.

Lesson 8: Cancer

Lesson 8 Learning Targets:

Describe the causes and types of cancer.
Explain methods for treating cancer and recognize the importance of early detection.
Identify behaviors that put an individual at risk for developing cancer.

Lesson 9 & 10: Project Development and Assessment

Students will identify a topic from the unit (lessons 1-8) and create a presentation or two-page written report on the impact of that topic to wellness. The final project will serve as the assessment for the unit.