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The Michigan Model is a kindergarten through
twelfth grade comprehensive school health education curriculum.
The kindergarten through sixth grade curriculum is
organized around themes which address the following content areas:
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Nutrition Education
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Family Health
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Consumer Health
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Community Health
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Safety and First Aid
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Substance Use and Abuse
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Growth and Development
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Personal Health Practices
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Emotional and Mental Health
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Disease Prevention and Control
The seventh through twelfth grade curriculum is
organized into modules that address the six categories of behaviors that
cause the most adverse health and social outcomes according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These categories are:
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Tobacco Use
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Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Sexual Behaviors That Lead to Unwanted Pregnancies
and STD's
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Dietary Behaviors
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Lack of Physical Activity
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Intentional and Unintentional Injuries
The Michigan Model Kindergarten through
Sixth grade has been revised and updated (1992-1995). The
following revised and newly developed modules are available for grades
7/8 and 9-12.
Grades 7/8 include the following:
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It's No Mystery: Tobacco Is A Killer
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Protect a Friend-Share Your Skills: Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention
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HIV, AIDS, and Other STD's
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What's Food Got to Do With It?
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It's Time To Move!
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The Two "R's" for Stopping Assault and
Preventing Violence
Grades 9 - 12 include the following:
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Teens Campaign Against Tobacco
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Teens Voice Solutions to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other
Drugs
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Help Yourself To Good Nutrition
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Stay Physically Active-For Life
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Managing Conflicts and Preventing Violence
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Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health
Education
Integration of Character Education with the Michigan
Model
Grades Kindergarten through Sixth
The following provides a brief description of how the
following six core values are integrated into the kindergarten through
sixth grade Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education
curricula.
Trustworthiness: honesty, acting with
integrity, keeping promises, demonstrating loyalty.
Respect: showing regard for the worth of
someone or something, autonomy, privacy, dignity and respect for self
and others, courtesy, tolerance, acceptance, respect for the
environment.
Responsibility: accountability, taking
care of self and others, fulfilling our obligations, contributing to our
communities, building a better world, pursuit of excellence.
Caring: showing compassion and
consideration for all others, giving, sharing, showing kindness, loving,
affirming each other.
Justice and Fairness: procedural
fairness, impartiality, consistency, equality, equity, due process, fair
and nonviolent conflict resolution.
Civic Virtue & Citizenship: law-abiding,
providing community service, furthering the protection of environment.
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