Health...It's Your Choice curriculum is designed to assist youth in making informed lifestyle choices. The curriculum is designed around the six wellness factors:

Body Motion – Physical wellness deals with your body. Besides keeping from getting sick, physical wellness includes such things as diet and exercise, avoiding unhealthy habits and keeping your body parts healthy.

Circle of Friends – Social wellness deals with how you relate to others. It involves your relationships with family, friends, and other people.

Brain Power – Intellectual wellness deals with your ability to use your brain. It involves such things as learning, decision-making, problem solving, imagination, and creativity.

Express Yourself – Emotional wellness deals with your feelings. It involves your self-esteem and your feelings toward others. It also includes how you deal with changes.

Dream On – Spiritual wellness deals with an invisible force within you. For some people, it is a small inner voice. For others, it's a special feeling. Your spirit helps make you the person you are, it's values and what gives meaning to your life.

My World – Environmental wellness deals with the world around you. It involves playing and working in school, your home, the neighborhood, and the community.

Instructional Materials

The curriculum includes a Helper's Guide and four student manuals for grades K – 2 (Exploring Your Body), 3-4 (Discovering Myself), 5-6 (Fun with Friends), 7-9 (Teen Talk), and 10 – 12 (Preparing for the Future). Activities are tied to National Health Standards.

Illinois State Goals & Learning Standards

01A. Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections.

01C. Comprehend a broad range of reading materials.

03A. Use correct grammar, spelling, puctuation, capitalization and structure.

03B. Compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences.

03C. Communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes.

04A. Listen effectively in formal and informal situations.

04B. Speak effectively using language appropriate to the situation and audience.

05A. Locate, organize, and use information from various sources to answer questions, solve problems and communicate ideas.

05B. Analyze and evaluate information acquired from various sources.

05C. Apply acquired information, concepts and ideas to communicate in a variety of formats.

19A. Demonstrate physical competency in individual and team sports, creative movement and leisure and work-related activities

19B. Anaylze various movement concepts and applications.

19C. Demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety and strategies during physical activity.

20A. Know and apply the principles and components of health-related fitness.

20B. Assess individual fitness levels.

20C. Set goals based on fitness data and develop, implement and monitor an individual fitness improvement plan.

22A. Explain the basic principles of health promotion, illness prevention and safety.

22B. Describe and explain the factors that influence health among individuals, groups and communities.

22C. Explain how the environment can affect health.

23A. Describe and explain the structure and functions of the human body systems and how they interrelate

23B. Explain the effects of health-related actions on body systems.

23C. Describe factors that affect growth and development.

24A. Demonstrate procedures for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict.

24B. Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual health.

24C. Demonstrate skills essential to enhancing and avoiding dangerous situations.