Grade 9 · printable course

Health Literacy and Personal Well-Being

Grade 9 · 380 pages · 47 lessons · PDF, print at home

A one-year (90-day) high school health course covering the domains a 9th grader needs to manage their own body and decisions: nutrition and food literacy, physical fitness and sleep, mental and emotional health, substance use and its effects, first aid and emergency response, personal safety, and consumer/digital health decision-making. Delivered one-to-one through an adaptive learning app with a parent as learning coach. The course excludes sexuality and sex education entirely; where topics border human development (e.g., puberty, body systems), treatment stays strictly on the medically factual, non-sexual side. Students learn to evaluate health information and claims, apply decision-making frameworks under real constraints (time, money, social pressure, incomplete information), and build practical emergency and self-care skills that transfer outside the classroom.

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Every unit and lesson in this book, in order. The same lessons are taught online at lettersanddevotion.com, so a family can move between paper and screen.

Health Literacy and Personal Well-Being

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Unit 1: Fueling and Recovering the Body: Nutrition, Fitness, and Sleep10 lessons
  1. 1.Energy balance (calories in vs. calories out) and its limits as a single-day predictor
  2. 2.Macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, fat) and their distinct physiological roles
  3. 3.Nutrition/ingredient label literacy versus front-of-package marketing claims
  4. 4.Components of physical fitness (cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility) as distinct, non-interchangeable adaptations
  5. 5.Sleep debt and circadian rhythm as they show up in a real sleep log
  6. 6.Dose-response relationship, introduced informally via caffeine/energy drinks
  7. 7.The goal-options-evidence-constraints-decide-review (GOECDR) decision framework
  8. 8.Revision of a personal food/movement/sleep plan under a changed, previously unseen constraint
  9. 9.The falseness of unconditional 'more is better' claims about sleep and exercise, as a general instance of dose-response and trade-off reasoning
  10. 10.Unit vocabulary: energy balance, macronutrient, sleep debt, circadian rhythm, dose-response
Unit 2: Stress, Emotion, and Help-Seeking9 lessons
  1. 11.The acute stress response sequence (trigger -> hypothalamic/hormonal signal -> physical changes -> resolution)
  2. 12.The distinction between acute and chronic stress activation and its link to recovery/sleep debt
  3. 13.The distinguishing structural feature between adaptive and maladaptive coping (does it address or reduce the stressor/its effects long-term, or only mute the feeling short-term)
  4. 14.Factual, non-diagnostic warning signs of anxiety and depression (duration, intensity, functional interference criteria)
  5. 15.The decision-making framework applied specifically to a help-seeking scenario
  6. 16.Protective factors and support networks and their causal role in stress/mood trajectories
  7. 17.The risk of delay/non-disclosure in a mental-health help-seeking situation
  8. 18.The opening disclosure move in a help-seeking conversation
  9. 19.Unit 1 vocabulary: sleep debt and recovery
Unit 3: Substance Use and Its Effects9 lessons
  1. 20.The dose-response relationship (dose, frequency, timing)
  2. 21.Individual variation in substance response
  3. 22.Acute vs. long-term effects vs. addiction as a physiological process
  4. 23.Intoxication vs. overdose/emergency warning signs
  5. 24.The help-seeking pathway (Unit 2) applied to substance use
  6. 25.Refusal skills under social pressure
  7. 26.Persuasion techniques in substance-use marketing
  8. 27.Substance-use messaging design targeted at an underlying motive
  9. 28.Integrated substance-use case analysis (dose-response, emergency classification, help-seeking pathway)
Unit 4: First Aid, Emergency Response, and Personal Safety10 lessons
  1. 29.The primary assessment sequence (scene safety, responsiveness, call for help, breathing check)
  2. 30.The abdominal thrust (choking) response sequence
  3. 31.The physiological rationale for direct pressure as bleeding control
  4. 32.Overdose/intoxication warning signs as an emergency-recognition trigger
  5. 33.Application of the recognize-decide-act emergency sequence to unrehearsed emergency types
  6. 34.The trade-off between deliberation and speed in the compressed emergency decision framework
  7. 35.The distinction between shock and simple fainting, and the corresponding first-aid response
  8. 36.A personal safety plan spanning home, online, and situational risk domains
  9. 37.The emergency-call script (location, nature of emergency, victim condition, stay on line)
  10. 38.Self-checking a physical first-aid procedure against an explicit checklist
Unit 5: Consumer and Digital Health Decisions9 lessons
  1. 39.Dose-response and nutrition-label literacy applied to supplement marketing claims
  2. 40.FDA regulatory pathway distinction between drugs and dietary supplements
  3. 41.Advertising techniques used in health-product marketing
  4. 42.Wellness-app claims about stress and mood evaluated against stress-physiology vocabulary
  5. 43.Vape/nicotine and recovery-product marketing claims evaluated against substance-effect knowledge
  6. 44.Health-app emergency-detection claims evaluated against call/no-call decision criteria
  7. 45.Evidence quality comparison across two competing health-product marketing claims
  8. 46.A personal purchase or app-adoption recommendation built on the full decision-making framework
  9. 47.The six steps of the goal-options-evidence-constraints-decide-review decision framework

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