6-8_health_curriculum_guide_scales_and_resources_.pdfMiddle School Health Curriculum Guide
At Des Moines Public Schools, students will learn and have access to grade-level curriculum that is directly aligned to the National Health Education Standards (NHES).
The DMPS Health curriculum department adopted the NHES to help provide a instruction for teachers, administrators, and students. The NHES standards provide students, families, and communities with high expectations for learning 21st century skills.
Students will focus on building skills that include:
The DMPS Health curriculum department adopted the NHES to help provide a instruction for teachers, administrators, and students. The NHES standards provide students, families, and communities with high expectations for learning 21st century skills.
Students will focus on building skills that include:
- Analyzing Health Influences
- Accessing Health Information
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Communication and Decision Making
- Advocacy
Curriculum Topics & Units
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NutritionStudents will learn about the importance of Nutrition and how it fuels your body. Other topics include:
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Social and Emotional LearningWith a heavy focus on overall wellness in middle school health, sixth grade curriculum focuses a significant amount of instruction discussing social and emotional health and well-being. Providing students with the skills and knowledge to manage stress, use refusal skills, and recognizing and building healthy relationships.
Each grade level provides students will access to social and emotional learning and provide students with the skills and knowledge to stand up and say something, finding medical help, and prescription drug safety. |
Human Growth and Development
Human growth and development is an important topic to cover in middle school. The critical skills that are taught and practiced throughout this unit are life skills. Refusal skills, making strong choices and decisions, and setting personal goals are all critical topics covered throughout the human growth and development unit.
Other topics include:
Other topics include:
- Healthy Dating Relationships
- Abstinence and Refusal Skills
- Choices in Sexuality
- Puberty
- Hygiene and Health
- Physical Activity
DMPS Canvas Courses
6th & 7th Grade Canvas CourseThe middle school health canvas course is located in the DMPS commons library.
Search: 67health, HLTH601, HLTH701 or DMPSHealth to find the course, and select the grade level course to import the curriculum shell into your rostered course. Unit Topics:
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8th Grade Canvas CourseThe middle school health canvas course is located in the DMPS commons library.
Search: 8health, HLTH801, or DMPSHealth to find the course, and select the grade level course to import the curriculum shell into your rostered course. Unit Topics:
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