Ninth Grade Curriculum Resources
Standard of Learning
9.2 The student will analyze and evaluate the relationship among healthy behaviors, disease prevention and control, and comprehensive wellness. Key concepts/skills include:
- participation in activities that improve the cardiovascular system;
- development of a personal plan for remaining free of communicable diseases;
- recognition of the value of proper nutrition, rest, and regular activity.
Understanding the Standard
The student will design a personal plan of action to avoid communicable diseases.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will:
- define communicable diseases. (an illness caused by a pathogen/germ)
- describe typhoid fever, Lyme disease, hepatitis A, B, and C virus, salmonella, dengue fever, West Nile virus, malaria, listeriosis, chicken pox, colds, E. Coli, flu, cholera, leprosy, measles, viral meningitis, mumps, rabies, rubella, smallpox, tetanus, tuberculosis, whooping cough, yellow fever, conjunctivitis, impetigo, mononucleosis, polio, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, strep throat, scarlet fever, shingles, etc.
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identify precautions you can take to prevent communicable diseases:
- maintain good health - proper nutrition, sufficient rest and sleep, adequate physical activity, and regular medical check-ups;
- proper hygiene to minimize germ exposure;
- vaccinations; (immunizations) and
- use caution around people with communicable diseases. (cold, flu, etc.)
- describe how the immune system works.
Sample Lessons
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
A curriculum designed to introduce students to major concepts related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and to convey to students the relationship between basic biomedical research and the improvement of personal and public health.
Source: National Institutes of Health
Contact: http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements
Free
Virus Encounters
This curriculum offers middle and high school teachers a comprehensive set of multimedia aids and activities for teaching units on infectious disease topics. Through the use video, text and interactive discussions students progress through real-life applications and simulations.
Sponsor: CDC and Turner Broadcasting
Contact: http://turnerlearning.com/fyi/virusencounters/explan.htm
Free
Additional Instructional Resources
- American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/section_09/index.htmland http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection
- American Society for Microbiology - http://www.microbe.org/index.html and http://www.washup.org
- Center for Disease Control - http://www.cdc.gov
- Center for Disease Control - Travelers Health - http://www.cdc.gov/travel
- Epidemics - http://www.pbs.org/fredfriendly/epidemic/lessons
- Family Life Curriculum
- Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics
- Get Smart Virginia - http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/getsmart/index.asp
- Health Teacher - http://healthteacher.com/lessonguides
- Health Textbooks
- Illness & Disease – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource (health & fitness 9-12)
- Local Health Departments
- PBS Antibiotic Resistance - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/clock/index.htmland http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_03.html
- School Nurse
- Virginia Department of Health
- Virtual Museum of Bacteria - http://bacteriamuseum.org
Assessment Ideas
The student will:
- design a brochure outlining the precautions one can take to prevent communicable diseases.
- create and present their plan for avoiding communicable diseases.
