6th Grade Healthy Habits
Health TEKS
Semester Course | ||||||||
Unit Title | Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellness | Taking Care of Mental and Emotional Health | Nutrition and Physical Activity
FitnessGram Assessment | Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs | Protecting Your Physical Health and Safety | Social Health and Wellness | Social Health: Violence Prevention *Parent Permission Required | Human Development and Reproductive Health *Parent Permission Required |
Time | 21 days | 12 days | 16 days | 11 days | 9 days | 6 days | 9 days | 4 days |
Understandings | Students understand the dimensions of health and wellness, body systems, personal hygiene, and healthy sleep habits to make informed decisions that support lifelong health. | Students understand the relationship between mental, emotional, and social health, develop healthy coping strategies, recognize mental health concerns, and identify trusted adults and resources for support. | Students understand how healthy eating and regular physical activity contribute to growth, energy balance, disease prevention, and lifelong wellness.
Students understand that they will participate in the FitnessGram health-related fitness assessment to measure components of fitness and monitor personal progress. | Students understand the health, legal, and social consequences of tobacco, vaping, alcohol, medications, and other drugs while practicing refusal and decision-making skills. | Students understand disease prevention, personal safety, injury prevention, first aid, and environmental health practices that promote individual and community wellness. | Students understand how effective communication, healthy relationships, respect, consent, and personal boundaries contribute to positive social health and overall well-being.. | Students recognize warning signs of violence, abuse, trafficking, and unsafe situations. Students identify strategies to promote personal safety, respond appropriately, and seek help from trusted adults and community resources. | Students understand the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social changes of adolescence, the human reproductive system, abstinence, responsible decision-making, pregnancy prevention, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. |
TEKS | 6.1A–C, 6.2A–G, 6.4A–D, 6.5A–B | 6.3E–F, 6.6A–H, 6.11 | 6.7A–E, 6.8A–B 6.1A, 6.2A | 6.10A–D | 6.12A–E, 6.13A–F, 6.14A–E | 6.3A–D, 6.15A–D | 6.16A–B | 6.17A–C, 6.18A–D, 6.19A–C, 6.20A–F, 6.21A–G, 6.22A–E, 6.23A–I |
Health Skills | • Health & Wellness • Body Systems • Personal Hygiene • Healthy Sleep Habits • Goal Setting • Decision Making | • Emotional Regulation • Mental Health Awareness • Coping Strategies • Stress Management • Suicide Prevention | • MyPlate • Macronutrients & Micronutrients • Nutrition Labels • Healthy Eating • Physical Activity Guidelines • Interpret FitnessGram results and set personal health & fitness goals. | • Tobacco & Vaping • Alcohol • Prescription & OTC Medications • Substance Use Prevention • Refusal Skills | • Disease Prevention • Communicable Diseases • First Aid • Injury Prevention • Environmental Health | • Healthy Relationships • Communication Skills • Active Listening • Conflict Resolution • Consent • Personal Boundaries | • Violence Prevention • Recognizing Unsafe Situations • Reporting Abuse • Seeking Help from Trusted Adults • Personal Safety • Bystander Awareness | • Human Development • Puberty • Reproductive Systems • Healthy Relationships • Abstinence • Responsible Decision-Making • Pregnancy Prevention • STIs & HIV/AIDS |