Florence District Five Comprehensive Health Instruction
In 1988, the South Carolina Legislature passed the Comprehensive Health Education Act into law. The purpose of the law is to address the crucial need for state public schools to be involved in the health and well-being of their students. Key components of the law established age-appropriate sequential instruction in the area of health education. Additional legislature mandated that schools provide opportunities for students to participate in physical activity on a regular basis. Kindergarten through grade five students are required to receive instruction in nutrition at least once a week. The Comprehensive Health Education Act mandates that schools provide time for health education instruction. Therefore, the South Carolina Department of Education professional staff, working in collaboration with the Safety Education Standards Review Committee and the Writing Team, created South Carolina Health and Safety Education Curriculum Standards to ensure that schools are satisfying the intent of the Comprehensive Health Education Act. Florence School District Five educators adhere to the law by using the SCDE Health and Safety Education curriculum, instructional support documents, and health instructional materials in our classrooms to educate our children to make health choices that promote healthy well-being.
2017 South Carolina Academic Standards for Health and Safety Education
https://ed.sc.gov/scdoe/assets/File/Health_Safety_Standards_Approved_Second_Reading_08082017.pdf
South Carolina Grade Level Health and Safety Education Curriculum Guidelines
Johnsonville Elementary School
Johnsonville Elementary teachers use the South Carolina State Health and Safety Education Curriculum Guidelines, Standards and Performance Indicators to implement Comprehensive Health Education. Teachers use the lessons, activity ideas, and assessments suggested in the state Curriculum Guide. Every class receives health instruction through units integrated within a Health block.
Materials Used in Classrooms
K-2
- Harcourt Health and Fitness - Copyright-2006
- ISBN 0-15-337526-4
- Harcourt School Publishers
- Textbooks and Resource Kits
- The OrganWise Guy
Grade 3
- Harcourt Health and Fitness - Copyright-2006
- ISBN 0-15-337526-4
- Harcourt School Publishers
- Textbooks and Resource Kits
- The OrganWise Guy
Grade 4
- Harcourt Health and Fitness - Copyright-2006
- ISBN 0-15-337527-2
- Harcourt School Publishers
- The OrganWise Guy
Curriculum Guides and Scope and Sequences
Johnsonville Middle School
Students at Johnsonville Middle School receive health education in Physical Education (PE), health, and science classes. This content is offered to fifth and sixth grade during a 60-minute block daily of health for one semester. Seventh and eighth graders are presented comprehensive health related topics during a nine weeks of their science instruction. The instructors address sensitive topics that include reproductive health education and transmitted disease. The course also helps students with health-related physical fitness, physical skill competence, physical activity, and positive attitudes. The instruction also includes instruction on a variety of other topics: safety and accident prevention, personal health, nutrition, and substance abuse.
Grade 5
- Harcourt Health and Fitness
- Copyright-2006
- ISBN 0-15-337529-2
- Harcourt School Publishers
- The OrganWise Guy
Grades 6-8
- Glencoe Teen Health
- Courses 1,2, and 3
- Copyright-2014
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Glencoe
- Textbooks and Resource Kits
- Other resources
- Teacher Made Projects
Curriculum Guides and Scope and Sequences
Johnsonville High School
The main objective of this embedded course is to inform students about sexual reproduction. The students learn basic anatomy of their reproductive organs, how organs work to reproduce, risks that come along with being sexually active (pregnancy, STD’s, and physical/emotional problems). In addition, students learn about the physiological changes that occur in the body during puberty with an emphasis on resulting consequences of parenthood while still being in high school. This course also covers the content covers all standards included in the South Carolina Grade Level Health and Safety Education Curriculum Guidelines. This length of curriculum incorporates the equivalent of 8.5 days of instruction (4x4 Scheduling) to satisfy the 750 minutes required to satisfy the requirement.
Parent Choice: While the district thinks that everyone should take part in the Sexual Education portion of the PE curriculum, it will not be a part of the student’s actual grade for the semester. The parent/guardian has the right to keep their child out of this portion of the class. If a parent wishes for his/her child to opt out from participating, a signed waiver will be required.
Johnsonville High School utilizes the CPR in Schools Training developed by the American Heart Association. The CPR in Schools Training Kit incorporates resuscitation science from the official 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
The CPR in Schools Training Kit empowers students to learn the core skills of adult CPR and choking relief, as well as gain an awareness of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Annually, all students At Johnsonville High School are engaged in the CPR in Schools Training.
Additionally, one health class is offered to students.
PERSONAL HEALTH (340223CW)
Credit: 1 Unit Grade Placement: 10-12
Prerequisite: Physical Education 1
This course will enable students to gain knowledge and skills about healthful living topics important to their age levels. Taught within our Physical Education Department, students are provided opportunities to explore the effect of health behaviors on an individual's quality of life. This course assists students in understanding that health is a lifetime commitment by analyzing individual risk factors and health decisions that promote health and prevent disease.
High School
- Glencoe Health
- Glencoe Families Today
- Wellness and Sexual Health – Worth the Wait
- Living WELL Aware Adolescent Wellness & Sexual Health
- Textbooks and Resource Kits
- Other resources
- Teacher Made Projects-Supertracker.usda.gov
- Courses
- CATE Nutrition and Food
- Food for Today
- Apex Learning Health Course
- Sexual Health Unit
- Safer Choices Comprehensive Health Manuel
- The Truth About Dugs: Education Package
- Choice with Current Health Magazines