Personal safety, health, drug abuse, sex, natural hazards and risks Concepts

Primary

Safety Concepts

1. Safety and security are basic needs of humans.
2. Safety involves freedom from danger, risk, or injury.
3. Security involves feelings of confidence and lack of anxiety and fear.
4. Following safety rules at home and school prevent injury.
5. Knowing when and whom to ask for help reduces risk.
6. Knowing when and how to say no reduces risk.

Health - nutrition, sex, exercise, drug abuse Concepts

1. Individuals have some responsibility for their own health.
2. Some diseases are communicable, such as colds, can be prevented with hygiene.
3. The body's defense mechanisms can prevent or overcome illness.
4. Nutrition is essential to health.
5. What people eat or use affects their well being.

Natural hazards Concepts

1. Internal and external processes of the earth system cause natural hazards, events that change or destroy human and wildlife habitats, damage property, and harm or kill humans.
2. Natural hazards include earthquakes, landslides, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, floods, storms, and even possible impacts of asteroids.

Risks Concepts

1. Life involves risks.

Intermediate

Safety Concepts

1. The potential for accidents and the existence of hazards imposes the need for injury prevention.
2. Safe living involves the development and use of safety precautions and the recognition of risk in personal decisions.
3. Injury prevention has personal and social dimensions.

Health - nutrition, sex, exercise, drug abuse Concepts

1. Good nutrition include eating a variety of foods, eating less sugar, and eating less fat.
2. Regular exercise in important to the maintenance and improvement of health.
3. The benefits of physical fitness include maintaining healthy weight, having energy and strength for routine activities, good muscle tone, bone strength, strong heart/lung systems, and improved mental health.
4. Personal exercise, especially developing cardiovascular endurance, is the foundation of physical fitness.
5. Different substances can damage the body and how it functions.
6. Such substances include tobacco, alcohol, over the counter medicines, and illicit drugs.
7. Prescription drugs, can be beneficial, but that any substance can be harmful if used inappropriately.
8. The use of tobacco increases the risk of illness.

Natural hazards Concepts

1. Human activities also can induce hazards through resources acquisition, urban growth, land-use decisions, and waste disposal.
2. Such activities can accelerate many natural changes.

Risks Concepts

1. Risk analysis considers the type of hazard and estimates the number of people that might be exposed and the number likely to suffer consequences. The results are used to determine the options for reducing or eliminating risks.

Middle School

Safety Concepts

1. Natural environments may contain substances (for example, radon and lead) that are harmful to human beings.
2. Maintaining environmental health involves establishing or monitoring quality standards, related to use of soil, water, and air.

Health - nutrition, sex, exercise, drug abuse Concepts

1. Food provides energy and nutrients for growth and development.
2. Nutrition requirements vary with body weight, age, sex, activity, and body functioning.
3. Alcohol and other drugs are often abused substances.
4. Such drugs change how the body functions and can lead to addiction.
5. Sex drive is a natural human function that requires understanding.
6. Sex is also a prominent means of transmitting diseases.
7. The diseases can be prevented through a variety of precautions.

Natural hazards Concepts

1. Natural hazards can present personal and societal challenges because miss identifying the change or incorrectly estimating the rate and scale of change may result in either too little attention and significant human costs or too much cost for unneeded preventative measures.

Risks Concepts

1. Risk analysis considers the type of hazard and estimates the number of people that might be exposed and the number likely to suffer consequences. The results are used to determine the options for reducing or eliminating risks. There are risks associated with natural hazards (fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions). with chemical hazards (pollutants in air, water, soil, and food), with biological hazards (pollen, viruses, bacterial, and parasite), social hazards (occupational safety and transportation) and with personal hazards (smoking, dieting, and drinking).
2. Individuals can use a systematic approach to thinking critically about risks and benefits. Examples include applying probability estimates to risks and comparing them to estimated personal and social benefits. Important personal and social decisions are made based on perceptions of benefits and risks.