Mental Health Illnesses: Identifies signs and symptoms of the following, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders
Identify warning signs of depression and prevention of suicide
Describe treatment options for mental illnesses and community resources for help and support
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: understands the consequences of drugs and develops refusal skills in order to make healthy decisions, demonstrates comprehension of vocabulary, identifies the stages and types of addiction, describes consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs on the body systems, identifies the categories of drugs and the effect on the Central Nervous System, analyzes the influences of peer pressure and media, identifies community resources for help with substance abuse
Human Growth and Development: Develop strategies to effectively communicate about sexuality, demonstrates an understanding of the dimensions of sexuality including gender differences, stereotypes, and sexual orientation, identify developmental changes during adolescence, identify anatomy and physiology of male and female reproductive systems, develop personal boundaries for healthy dating relationships, understands and identifies reasons that abstinence is a healthy choice for teens, demonstrate comprehension of teen pregnancy prevention, understands the influence of society(family, peers, and media) on sexuality and consequences of sexual activity, develops awareness and prevention of sexually transmitted infections ( including HIV/AIDS)

Dakota Middle School

Eighth Grade

Art

Automation and Robotics

English Language Arts

Health

Math

Music

Physical Education (P.E.)

Science

Social Studies

21st Century Technology and Careers