Unit 1: Personal Consumer Health

2. Unit 1: Personal Consumer Health • Getting Acquainted with Health • Warm Up #1 • Health Continuum • Risky Business Tri-Fold • Decision Making Model • Take Control!

3. Decision Making

4. Serious Health Risks for Youth • Essential Standards in Healthful Living Education are based on the prevention of serious health risks for young people. These are behaviors that could lead to injury or illness, now or in the future

5. Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence • Tobacco use • Alcohol and other drugs • Sexual risk behaviors • Unhealthy dietary behaviors • Physical inactivity

6. There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It is not my fault. It takes forever to find my way out.

7. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t seen it. I fall in. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.

8. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it there. I still fall in… It’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

9. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. I walk down another street.

10. Decision: • A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration. • The action or process of deciding something or of resolving a question. • Risky Behavior • Tendency to engage in behaviors that have the potential to be harmful or dangerous, yet at the same time provide the opportunity for some kind of outcome that can be perceived as positive