High school health?

[MAIMOM]

We just found out we will be moving this summer. DD will need to have one semester of health. What is available? I am not looking for a very detailed course...just one that meets the .5 credit requirement for Alaska.

[Sandwich in Wi]

Not sure what your requirements are, but we made up our own thing. I read through several books with my dd and we discussed, she wrote a brief summary of each chapter:

 

Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler

Facing the Facts: The Truth about S3x and You by Brenna Jones and Stan Jones (we just skimmed this one)

For Young Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa Rice

 

And now she will be listening to audio of The Great Courses' Nutrition made clear by Anding, Roberta.

 

Non-traditional, but it worked for us.

 

Blessings,

Sandwich

[FloridaLisa]

My oldest used Total Health. Although I perused the book back in the day, I really cannot give you a detailed review. I handed it off and checked the box. With the next one, I decided that Nutrition at the community college, along with our own family discussions, was a better way. We don't *need* health in Florida.

 

Lisa

[cbollin]

we used this http://www.mfwbooks.com/products/M50/50/25/0/1#health

 

supplemented with real life needs as well. and there was some kind of dvd on The Great Courses that was sale.... something about medical myths. that was just to meet our interest. I think without it, there was enough in the Total Health course lesson plans for credit.

[TechWife]

We're making our own up. I have quite a lot I want to cover that would come under "health." For ease of use, though, Alpha Omega Lifepacs are straightforward and easy to do independently. While Total Health is full of great information, I think it's a very large textbook to cover in one semester, IMO. The workbook is tedious, as well.

[creekland]

We used Abeka and both my boys (3) and I liked it. It's definitely Christian (so ignore this if desired), but it's quite good with the health part and easy to do. It's the only Abeka curricula we used. It's also extremely inexpensive and easy to find on e-bay and other places. (Skip their dating and relationship book... I suspect that is a good choice only for a very, very, conservative minority out there.)

 

Once mine had finished the official health course, we just continued reading Nutrition Action - a very nice, short, health (no advertisements) magazine put out by the Center for Public Health. It keeps one up on current research, etc, but it definitely doesn't "do" all of health as a half credit course does.

[Joan in GE]

We're mixing Glencoe Health with the Florida requirements found on their virtual school with another list I'd made for ds...

 

This is where a 'tag' would be probably helpful. If you go back to your original post and click 'edit' - you will see the option of tagging right under the title of your thread. Type in "health" then a comma and 'enter'. You could then submit your edited post. Then at the top of the thread you will see the tag "health". If you click it, it should bring up the old threads that have been tagged about health. I'm not sure if they have brought over all the tags but there were some recent threads...

 

And I did a thread a couple of years ago about it as well (as well as a recent one about health - nutrition)...So you could also search my name and health as well...

 

HTH,

Joan

[MAIMOM]

Thank you for all the input. I will tag my post....thanks for the directions on how that works. I did not know that...it sounds very helpful.

 

I was thinking about having my DD attend the Bible study at our chapel. One of the studies is Healthy living by Rex Russel. We are also going away for a weekend to to Passport 2 Purity and I thought about incorporating the 4th book in God's design for sex. I am thinking I could use that to create our own Health class. The study will give her a lot of health and nutrition as it is taught by a nutritionist. Between passport and facing the facts the truth about sex and you she will get her "sex education" portion.

 

Am I missing something that needs to be covered?

[mschickie]

Why not do a Red Cross First Aid and CPR class? There was a good sized section in the Abeka book on first aid.

[Lolly]

We used Lifepacs to check that silly box.

[J-rap]

We used the SOS (Switched on Schoolhouse) health program (all done on the computer). You can pick what you want to use on it, and after that, the computer does most of the work: grading, etc., unless they are open-ended questions. I blocked off all of the tests and extra assignments. I had my kids do just a quick run-through of the chapters with short quizzes.

 

We talk a lot about living a healthy lifestyle at home, so I didn't feel a need to have an in-depth curriculum.

[Joan in GE]

This is a perfect example of where tagging by non-OP would be helpful.

 

I saw on the health tag, it actually didn't turn up so many examples from the high school board. So I search for the ones where I'd posted and found some good ones (one of which I'd forgotten to tag myself :blushing: so was able to tag it) but most of them were not tagged. And now, even though I've done that search, I can't tag them. (Help OtherJohn!)

 

Here are some, though some that come up when I search the word "health" with my name are quite irrelevant (another reason why the tag is useful - it would screen out those completely irrelevant posts) ! but there are more that are quite relevant, but it's better if you search yourself so you can see which ones you could use.

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/286992-want-to-create-my-own-health-class/page__hl__+health

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/254346-high-school-health-requirement/#entry2532236

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/215928-life-management-skills-health-course-variations-in-fl/#entry2079982

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/224119-can-anyone-post-how-they-met-a-healthpe-credit/#entry2199171

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/443581-need-suggestions-to-help-pass-health-class-test/#entry4537157

 

Joan

[snowbeltmom]

I have seen questions regarding a health credit mentioned a few times now. I am confused as to who requires a credit in health? I have only researched a handful of colleges, but I have not seen a credit in health listed in a college's required courses of study. Are there colleges out there that require a credit in health?

 

I had not planned on issuing any credits for topics that I consider "simply living", such as daily exercise, nutrition, enjoying the arts, drivers ed, etc. Are these items that colleges will expect to see listed on the transcript?

[cbollin]

I have seen questions regarding a health credit mentioned a few times now. I am confused as to who requires a credit in health?

 

I live in a state where we use umbrella schools as a legal option to homeschool. The umbrella school I use requires it for issuing diploma.

In the state where I lived previously, the state colleges wanted to see homeschoolers (from that state) meeting the same courses for the public diploma, and that would have included a health credit. (content could be different, but they want to see similar sequence of courses).

 

mileage will vary.

[elegantlion]

I have seen questions regarding a health credit mentioned a few times now. I am confused as to who requires a credit in health? I have only researched a handful of colleges, but I have not seen a credit in health listed in a college's required courses of study. Are there colleges out there that require a credit in health?

 

I had not planned on issuing any credits for topics that I consider "simply living", such as daily exercise, nutrition, enjoying the arts, drivers ed, etc. Are these items that colleges will expect to see listed on the transcript?

 

 

Our public school require a health credit. A few colleges I've looked at don't require it, but we may cover it just to check the box as he'll mostly likely attend in-state.

 

I'm not sure if we'll call it health for .5 credit or do a 1 credit "life skills" which include health, driver's education, carpentry skills, and non-financial household management stuff.

 

I thought I saw someone reference this course from GA virtual learning. It's basic, I may use it along with some other nutritional information I have and call it good.

[Mom22ns]

We aren't required to do health and I don't think any colleges care about it. However, my oldest is ASD and we teach things that others learn by life experience. My second wants to go into a medically related field and we're using health to cover some topics that will benefit her.

[creekland]

I have seen questions regarding a health credit mentioned a few times now. I am confused as to who requires a credit in health? I have only researched a handful of colleges, but I have not seen a credit in health listed in a college's required courses of study. Are there colleges out there that require a credit in health?

 

I had not planned on issuing any credits for topics that I consider "simply living", such as daily exercise, nutrition, enjoying the arts, drivers ed, etc. Are these items that colleges will expect to see listed on the transcript?

 

In PA if one wants to qualify for any of the state scholarships you have to homeschool to your local school's standards (so they will sign off on it) or have an accredited agency of some sort. Our local school (and, I believe our state) requires health - so we did it. It was actually a course my three all said they liked, so I have no regrets on that end either.

[TexasRachel]

We did Lifepac for health. Just because it's required for Texas graduates so I figured we would use it as an easy elective. then she can study what she likes later while still making it seem like dd is doing school like the ps. It's a check mark.

[Joan in GE]

I have seen questions regarding a health credit mentioned a few times now. I am confused as to who requires a credit in health? I have only researched a handful of colleges, but I have not seen a credit in health listed in a college's required courses of study. Are there colleges out there that require a credit in health?

 

I had not planned on issuing any credits for topics that I consider "simply living", such as daily exercise, nutrition, enjoying the arts, drivers ed, etc. Are these items that colleges will expect to see listed on the transcript?

 

 

We did it for our umbrella school as well.

 

But it was a good time to find topics, from various lists of topics covered, that would be useful for dc to "know before they go" (out into the world). I was actually glad to have an excuse to include them :-) and be able to give a 1/2 credit for it.

 

When you look at the different lists (eg TC of Glencoe Health vs FVS and others) you see all the different possibilities of topics if your state doesn't have set criteria....

 

Joan

[snowbeltmom]

When you look at the different lists (eg TC of Glencoe Health vs FVS and others) you see all the different possibilities of topics if your state doesn't have set criteria....

 

Joan

 

 

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. Our state does require a health credit for public schooled kids, but as a homeschooler, I don't have to follow the state's graduation requirements for public school students.

 

Both of my boys have taken a CPR/First Aid class through the Red Cross. I just never thought to list it on their transcripts, but now I think I might..