What is comprehensive school health education?
Comprehensive school health education is a planned sequential curriculum with each lesson and activity building on the last. It is intended to address not only the physical, but also the social and emotional dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, enabling students to develop the skills and attitudes necessary for health-related problem solving and informed decision making. What makes a curriculum comprehensive? A comprehensive curriculum: Outlines the scope of instruction from start to finish. Monitored through its implementation, a comprehensive health curriculum is an age appropriate, planned, scientifically accurate, sequential program of health education for Kindergarten through Grade 12 students. Covers a variety of health topics. A comprehensive curriculum educates students about a range of categorical health problems and issue. It should cover 10 specific topics: 1. Mental and Emotional Health 2. Fam
