High School Health

[cbhrbooth]

Looking over my Texas high school recommended credit hours, I see that I've forgotten to plan for Health. When my older daughter went through high school, I counted Apologia Human Anatomy as her health credit. She also was a Red Cross certified swim instructor with many CPR classes (even some CPR classes she taught) under her belt, so I felt good about checking Health off our list.

 

However, I'm not sure if this daughter (10th grade) will take Human Anatomy, and she has had only 2 CPR elementary courses. (She is also a Red Cross swim instructor, but has been less involved.) I don't want to wait until her senior year for her to take this credit.

 

My question. . . do you teach a "health" course? Or Is it a credit you blow off? (It's not required for us, but I'd like to have a good answer for why it's not on the transcript if someone, who was so intensely bored with his life, ever asked. :laugh: )

 

Suggestions?

 

[Sebastian (a lady)]

It probably won't be on our transcript for the same reason driver's ed, PE, typing, and personal finance aren't likely to make it onto the transcript.  Not because we didn't expose the boys to these skills or concepts but because they were part of our daily life and not our academics.  I feel that our academic day is full enough without adding in classes I think are more skills based.  JMHO.

If I had to do a health class, I'd probably get a Teaching Company series or a pretty basic textbook.  (They've already done Boy Scout first aid and personal fitness as well as nutrition and fitness requirements in other badges.)  I would like my kids to be able to read a news article on a health topic and make sense of the claims.  I'd like them to know their family health history and how to schedule an appointment.  But I'm not sure that's worthy of a course.

[snowbeltmom]

It probably won't be on our transcript for the same reason driver's ed, PE, typing, and personal finance aren't likely to make it onto the transcript.  Not because we didn't expose the boys to these skills or concepts but because they were part of our daily life and not our academics.  I feel that our academic day is full enough without adding in classes I think are more skills based.  JMHO.

 

:iagree:

 

It will not be listed on our transcript either.

[Julie in MN]

It probably won't be on our transcript for the same reason driver's ed, PE, typing, and personal finance aren't likely to make it onto the transcript. 

 

I have heard of PE and health being on college requirement lists.  Therefore, if one didn't take it in high school, then one must pay to take it in college.  Someone told me they had to do that in college, I wish I could remember who. 

 

In order to avoid that, if at all humanly possible, I try to have these on the transcript. 

 

For health, I've used Total Health, ABeka health, and do-it-yourself health.  I don't worry too much unless the student really is in need of instruction (such as my dd and phy ed).  Typically the public schools do a lot of non-textbook stuff in those types of courses.  We won't go into how I got credit for ping pong in the early 70s :)

 

Julie

 

[cbhrbooth]

Thanks for your responses! You've helped a lot. I'm leaning, slightly, towards a do-it-yourself one, so I can cross it off the list. After I outlined the topics (Nutrition, Personal Hygiene, Lifestyle, Safety, Growth & Development) I saw how easily the class could be addressed without turning it into a full-meal-deal. :hurray: Once I work out a weekly schedule, I'll know for sure. Your time is much appreciated! 

 

 

 

 

[Sebastian (a lady)]

Were I doing a class I'd use the book Take Care of Yourself for part of it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0738213489/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1374618548&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY190

 

This was given to us when we lived overseas and it was really helpful for figuring out what needed to be checked out and what was just something to wait out.

[Mom22ns]

With my first I used Intellego Health. It was meh. This time I'm using Oak Meadow Health. I have it in hand and have looked through it, but haven't actually used it yet to give a review. It is designed as a full credit. I didn't realize that when I got it. I was planning on just .5 credit, but it does look good.

[JanetC]

With my first I used Intellego Health. It was meh. This time I'm using Oak Meadow Health. I have it in hand and have looked through it, but haven't actually used it yet to give a review. It is designed as a full credit. I didn't realize that when I got it. I was planning on just .5 credit, but it does look good.

 

Could you give a more detailed review of Intellego Health?  What was "meh" about it?  I was thinking about buying this for the fall.

 

 

--Janet

[Sebastian (a lady)]

I have heard of PE and health being on college requirement lists.  Therefore, if one didn't take it in high school, then one must pay to take it in college.  Someone told me they had to do that in college, I wish I could remember who. 

 

In order to avoid that, if at all humanly possible, I try to have these on the transcript. 

 

For health, I've used Total Health, ABeka health, and do-it-yourself health.  I don't worry too much unless the student really is in need of instruction (such as my dd and phy ed).  Typically the public schools do a lot of non-textbook stuff in those types of courses.  We won't go into how I got credit for ping pong in the early 70s :)

 

Julie

 

I'm not sure this makes a ton of sense to me.  Even if a college had a PE requirement, why would the high school course fill that general ed requirement?   I guess I'd need to see that requirement in context.

 

I did take 8 semesters of 1 credit PE classes in college as a core requirement.  Nothing from high school was going to get me out of that.

[Mom22ns]

Intellego Health is basically a set of links. It was reasonably well done and covered a good set of topics. What I didn't like was too many links that either didn't work or were hard to use. Quite a few were to lesson plans. Some were to sites or files that needed additional content to make them useful and the ancillary materials were not available free. I had hoped that ds would be able to use Intellego fairly independently. I went through before him to give assignments, but it took far more effort on my part than I had intended to make it workable. 

 

It is a good foundation. If you don't mind putting a little work into it, the price is right.

[cbollin]

I'm not sure this makes a ton of sense to me.  Even if a college had a PE requirement, why would the high school course fill that general ed requirement?   I guess I'd need to see that requirement in context.

 

I did take 8 semesters of 1 credit PE classes in college as a core requirement.  Nothing from high school was going to get me out of that.

 

I read her statement as the other way around.... It's a  "college entrance requirement" and if you didn't have it in high school, they'd admit but then require the course in freshman year.  I think one of our state schools has similar kind of thing with US history or state history...  it's not required in most degrees, but if you didn't take it in high school then it is required.  But they don't currently have it that way for PE/Health.  They decided recently a 4th math class is more important. :)

[cbollin]

My cover school still wants to see Health as a class.  We did Total Health with lesson plans from my father's world, and added in a medical myths video from Great Courses.

 

I also had my daughter learn "one minute" hands only bystander good enough CPR.  you know... the version that you do the compressions to the beat of Stayin" Alive (for legit and real... really).   anyway... here's a PSA of some firefighters with a fun video to explain it

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22714059/chattanooga-fire-graduates-make-cpr-video-coreographed-to-stayin-alive

or here

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/HandsOnlyCPR/Hands-Only-CPR_UCM_440559_SubHomePage.jsp

 

just in case anyone is wanting to learn that  :)

 

[JanetC]

It is a good foundation. If you don't mind putting a little work into it, the price is right.

Hmm. I already have a lot of teacher intensive stuff going on this year. I should probably reconsider.

[Julie in MN]

I'm not sure this makes a ton of sense to me.  Even if a college had a PE requirement, why would the high school course fill that general ed requirement?   I guess I'd need to see that requirement in context.

 

I did take 8 semesters of 1 credit PE classes in college as a core requirement.  Nothing from high school was going to get me out of that.

 

 

I read her statement as the other way around.... It's a  "college entrance requirement" and if you didn't have it in high school, they'd admit but then require the course in freshman year.  I think one of our state schools has similar kind of thing with US history or state history...  it's not required in most degrees, but if you didn't take it in high school then it is required.  But they don't currently have it that way for PE/Health.  They decided recently a 4th math class is more important. :)

 

Crystal understands me :)

 

So, say the U of MN requires phy ed in high school as an admission requirement (it doesn't, but it does require fine arts, so you could substitute that).  If the U of MN admitted my son without the required high school course, then he could attend there.  However, he couldn't graduate from the U of MN until both his college requirements were fulfilled AND its high school admission requirements.  So if the required high school course wasn't done in high school, then it would need to be completed in college, likely a zero-credit course on the college transcript but still paying the college prices for the course.

 

So, no, health and phy ed aren't required at the U of MN (neither in high school nor in college).  But because someone told me their college required them to make up missing phy ed credits from their high school transcript, I've not wanted to take any chances on that since then.  Who knows what schools my kids might end up at.

 

Trying to make sense is my nemesis, or so my kids tell me.

Julie

[Kareni]

My question. . . do you teach a "health" course? Or Is it a credit you blow off? (It's not required for us, but I'd like to have a good answer for why it's not on the transcript if someone, who was so intensely bored with his life, ever asked. :laugh: )

 

Suggestions?

 

My daughter did not take a formal Health class in high school. In all the colleges that my daughter considered, we did not see one that actually required a health credit.

 

My state does require health of public schooled students (though the requirements for homeschooled students are different). On the homeschool profile that I sent with my daughter's college applications, I had the following statement:

 

"DD has no formal health credit on her transcript; however, we have covered this subject on an informal basis throughout her high school years."

 

So, I did not issue any credit for Health. Just one approach for you to consider.

 

Regards,

Kareni