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Overview

In this unit, students will begin their exploration of health by starting with
personal, individual health. They will interview members of their family as
well as their personal physician regarding health issues. They will compile
research on one health topic of interest in a fact sheet to share with peers.
Students will also begin to explore some of the important linkages between
different aspects of health that will be explored in greater depth in later units.

ACLiVity SPH l .1

What Do You Need to Be Healthy?

Students investigate what they need as individuals to be healthy. Students
begin by writing a reflection in their journals about what they need to be
physically healthy and emotionally healthy. Students then interview their
parents or guardians to determine what those individuals believe they need
to be healthy. Students use their reflections to write a list of questions re-
garding their personal health to ask their pediatrician or family physician.
They then interview the physician to gain more clinical knowledge of their
personal needs.

ACtiVity SPHl .2

Educating Others about Personal Health

Students should use this list and other information to create a one—page in—
formation sheet that will educate others on one topic of interest that emerged
in their exploration of health. The topics that the students choose should
vary widely and should range from prenatal care to exercise, nutrition, vacci—
nation, medical screenings, dental health, physical health, emotional health,
mental health, and so on. However, the topics should relate to personal
health rather than to public health, which will be addressed later. Students
should use the library and online resources to find at least five sources of
information to use to develop their information sheet. The information

should not be personal to the student but rather an exploration of a topic

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