• Vickery Creek
    Middle School
    HEALTH
     
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    We encourage communication with our community,
    so please do not hesitate to contact us about any questions or concerns you may have.
     
    We are very excited about health this year. 
    We have an informative curriculum to teach and hope to
    prepare each and every student for a bright, healthy future.
     
     

    Joey Garner - 7th grade

    Mark Taylor - 8th grade

    Ryan Miller - 6th grade

     

    (770) 667-2580 ext.230506

     

     
     
     
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    COURSE DESCRIPTION:
     
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    6th Grade
     

    Life Skills:

     
    Personal Health                                            
    Self-Image and Self-Improvement
    Making Decisions                                        
    Smoking: Myths and Realities
    Smoking and Biofeedback                         
    Alcohol: Myths and Realities
    Marijuana: Myths and Realities                  
    Advertising
    Violence and Media                                    
    Coping with Anxiety
    Coping with Anger                                       
    Communication Skills
    Social Skills                                                  
    Safety in the Home and Community
    Disease Prevention and Control                
    Intro. to Substance Abuse

    Intro. to First Aid and Injury Prevention

     
    Choosing the Best:
     
    Deciding on Your Future                        
    Figuring out Friendships and Relationships
    Relationships                               
    Identifying the Risks
    Choosing the Best Way                         
    Learning to say “No”

    Avoiding Unhealthy Relationships

     

     
     
    17th GRADE
     

    Life Skills:

     
    Personal and Community Health                
    Professional Health Services
    Drug Abuse and Violence                           
    Making Decisions
    Media Influence                                            
    Coping with Anxiety
    Coping with Anger                                       
    Communication Skills
    Social Skills                                                  
    Assertiveness
    Resolving Conflicts                                      
    Resisting Peer Pressure
    First Aid                                                        
    Substance Use and Abuse

    Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases

     
    Choosing the Best:

     

    Sex: Everybody is Talking About it The Risk of STDs and HIV/AIDS

    Teen Pregnancy and “Safe Sex”                
    Pressures to be Sexually Active
    Choosing the Best Path                              
    Set it! The Need for Boundaries
    Say it! The Need to Speak Up                   
    Show it! The Need to be Assertive

     

     
     
    18th GRADE
     

    Life Skills:

     
    Personal and Community Health                
    Drug Abuse: Causes and Effects
    Making Decisions                                        
    Media Influence
    Coping with Anxiety                                     
    Coping with Anger
    Social Skills                                                  
    Assertiveness
    Resolving Conflicts                                      
    Resisting Peer Pressure
    Nutrition and Diet                                         
    Eating Disorders
     
    Choosing the Best:
     
    Sex, Emotions, and Self-Respect                      
    Sex, Alcohol, and Respect
    Sex, STDs, and Honesty                                     
    Sex, HIV/AIDS, and Compassion
    Sex, Love, and Choices                                      
    Sex, Limits, and Self-Discipline