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Objectives

Misson: Take Charge seeks to empower youth to take responsibility for their own health behaviors through healthy lifestyle choices and education.

Focus: PA, Nutrition, Your Health (diabetes, obesity, CVH risk factors)

Content Objectives- Physical Activity

Identify health benefits of being physically active.
Identify new physical activity ideas that have personal interest.
Identify physical fitness components and their meanings
Identify physical activities that contribute to increased fitness in selected components.
Recall that the national recommendation for the duration of physical activity that teens should participate in daily is 60 minutes.
Identify activities that are moderate to vigorous in intensity levels.
Identify characteristics of the different levels of intensity of exercise.
Associate physical activity and caloric intake as the key factors in maintaining energy balance.
Recognize that personal goal setting is important in helping an individual make changes in lifestyle habits.
Set at least two personal goals to improve physical activity or diet intake.
Complete daily logs on physical activity participation.
Articulate the need for physical activity in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Identify environmental influences (home, school, community) on physical activity opportunities and physical activity participation and formulate a plan to hypothetically make changes.
Evaluate media influences on healthy behaviors.

Content Objectives- Nutrition

Recognize components of healthy eating.
Recognize obesity as a consequence of poor nutritional habits.
Identify key vitamins and minerals and their contributions to good health.
Demonstrate knowledge of the energy balance principle.
Identify the USDA MyPyramid as a means to help individuals make good food choices and attain energy balance.
Identify the components of Nutrition Facts labels that are on packaged foods.
Demonstrate an ability to accurately read a Nutrition Facts label and calculate label information.
Distinguish between a portion size and a serving size.
Demonstrate an understanding of standard serving sizes for foods in various food groups.
Set at least two personal goals to improve physical activity or diet intake.
Complete daily logs on diet intake of fruits, vegetables, and drinks.
Articulate the need for good food choices in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Identify environmental influences (home, school, community) on food choice and formulate a plan to hypothetically make changes.
Evaluate media influences on healthy behaviors.

Content Objectives - Your Health

Demonstrate an understanding of energy balance and its importance in maintaining a healthy body weight.
Identify puberty (phase of growth and development), body type, and inherited traits as influences on body weight.
Identify body mass index (BMI) and how it relates to a healthy body weight.
Recall that diabetes is a chronic disease that prevents the body from making or properly using insulin.
Recognize that Type II diabetes can be caused by being overweight.
Recognize that teens can be diagnosed with either Type I or Type II diabetes.
Identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Identify symptoms of a heart attack and immediate action steps.
Recognize that lifestyle choices affect risks for chronic diseases.
Recognize the importance of a family health history.
Recognize environmental influences that affect one’s health status.

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