Health Education California

Health Education is a one-semester course aligned to California Health Education Content Standards. It also meets the requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act. The course is  designed to build the skills students in grades 9 through 12 need to protect, enhance, and promote their own health and the health of others. This skills-based course helps students develop knowledge, attitudes, and essential skills in a variety of health-related subjects, including mental and emotional health, social health, nutrition, physical fitness, substance use and abuse, disease prevention and treatment, and injury prevention and safety. With accessible information and interactive learning, the course teaches students to apply the skills they need to stay healthy. These skills include identifying and accessing valid health information, practicing self-management, identifying internal and external influences, communicating effectively, making healthy decisions, setting goals, and advocating for themselves and others.

There are no required materials for this course.