Health — Evidence, Choices and Community is a one-semester, grade 9 health course aligned to the California Health Education Content Standards and built to meet California’s requirements for high-school health instruction.
Four units, twenty lessons: Mind, Mood and Getting Help (stress, mental health, suicide prevention and 988, valid health information and health care access), Fuel and Movement (the Dietary Guidelines, food labels, supplements and fitness claims, eating disorders, physical activity), Substances, Emergencies and Safety (the adolescent brain, vaping, alcohol, fentanyl and counterfeit pills, naloxone, hands-only CPR and AEDs, impaired driving, emergency preparedness) and Growth, Relationships and Sexual Health (the California Healthy Youth Act unit: development, healthy relationships, affirmative consent, harassment and trafficking awareness, and all FDA-approved methods of preventing pregnancy, HIV and other STIs).
Parents and guardians may excuse a student from comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention instruction in Unit 4 by written request (Education Code 51938). Excused students complete an equal-credit alternative assignment and face no penalty.
Hands-only CPR: students learn and practice it; a CPR/First Aid/AED certification card can only be issued by a certified instructor (for example, American Red Cross or American Heart Association), which the school arranges separately.
Sources: SLS-authored content drawing on CDC, NIH (NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA), FDA, HHS, USDA, SAMHSA and DEA publications (U.S. government works, public domain), and OpenStax Psychology 2e and Anatomy and Physiology 2e (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; referenced, not reproduced).
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Unit 1: Mind, Mood and Getting Help5
- 1.1Mental Health on a Continuum — Reading the Youth Risk Behavior Survey50 mins
- 1.2Skills Lab — Stress, Sleep and a Coping Plan50 mins
- 1.3Decision Lab — Helping a Friend: Warning Signs, 988 and Trusted Adults50 mins
- 1.4Workshop — Finding Help You Can Trust: Health Information and Health Care100 mins
- 1.5Performance Task — School Mental Health Resource Guide and Stigma-Reduction Campaign150 mins
- Unit 2: Fuel and Movement5
- 2.1What the Dietary Guidelines Say — and Why They Change50 mins
- 2.2Skills Lab — Reading the Nutrition Facts Label and Keeping Food Safe50 mins
- 2.3Decision Lab — Supplements, Diet Pills, Steroids and Eating Disorders50 mins
- 2.4Workshop — Moving More: Physical Activity Guidelines and the Environments That Shape Them100 mins
- 2.5Performance Task — School Food and Movement Environment Audit and Advocacy Brief150 mins
- Unit 3: Substances, Emergencies and Safety5
- 3.1The Adolescent Brain and Substances — Vaping, Alcohol, Cannabis and Counterfeit Pills50 mins
- 3.2Skills Lab — Emergency Response: Hands-Only CPR, the AED and Naloxone100 mins
- 3.3Decision Lab — Pressure, Norms and the 911 Decision50 mins
- 3.4Workshop — Injury Prevention and Emergency Preparedness in California100 mins
- 3.5Performance Task — Prevention Campaign with Evidence Brief150 mins
- Unit 4: Growth, Relationships and Sexual Health5
- 4.1Growing Up — Development, Identity and Healthy Relationships50 mins
- 4.2Skills Lab — Pregnancy, HIV and STI Prevention: Reading the Effectiveness Data100 mins
- 4.3Decision Lab — Affirmative Consent, Harassment and Trafficking Awareness50 mins
- 4.4Workshop — Sexual Health Information, Rights and Access to Care100 mins
- 4.5Performance Task — Peer Health Resource Project150 mins
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