Welcome to my home page.  I teach seventh and eighth grade Health classes. 

The goal of the course is to provide students with accurate information and skills needed to make positive decisions which may affect  their  health throughout their lifetime.  

Seventh Grade Health 

The units to be studied are Project ALERT: This drug curriculum's focus is on motivating non-use, learning to recognize pressures to use, and developing and practicing skills to resist these pressures; Developing Good Decision-Making Skills, and Family Life and Human Development.

Eighth Grade Health

The units to be studied are Mental Health,(identify and manage feelings: identify the effects of stress and learn healthy stress management skills), Drugs (eight basic groups of drugs and their consequences of use and abuse), Cardiovascular Disease ( concept of wellness;identify controllable and uncontrollable risk factors)  and Family Life and Human Developmen