Notebook Questions

1.1- What is Health?

1) Define the terms below:
HealthLife expectancyQuality of lifePhysical healthEmotional healthMental healthSocial health2) List three aspects of overall health.
3) Where on the health continuum are you today? What are some of the reasons you
are there today? What are some things you want to improve in your life to better your
overall health?
1.2- Identifying Health Risks
1) List and explain the factors that can influence health.
2) What are three strategies you can use to evaluate risk factors?
3) What are some habits that and/or unhealthy behaviors that you would like to
change in your own life? Why?
1.3- Taking Responsibility for Your Health
1) What are three steps you can take to help your personal health goals?
2) List the 6 skills that can help you improve your health.
3) What are your personal values? Write down 3 or more values that are important to
you and explain why each is important to you.
1.4- Being a Wise Consumer & DECIDE Process
1) What does each letter in the DECIDE process stand for?

2) Define:
FraudQuackery3) What are some warning signs of quackery?

2.1- Personality
1) List and define the 5 central traits that describes someones personality.
2) What two factors determine how personality is formed?
3) What traits describe your personality? Do you think you are influenced more by
heredity or by environment? Why?

2.2- Self-Esteem
1) What is self-esteem?
2) List the strategies for improving and maintaining your self-esteem.
3) List the needs that must be met before a person can achieve self-actualization.
4) What is one strategy that you use to help boost your own self-esteem? What is one
that you want to improve at?
2.3- Expressing Your Emotions
1) What are primary emotions? Learned emotions?
2) What are the three steps for recognizing your emotions?
3) List 4 helpful coping strategies and 2 harmful coping strategies.
4) What is a coping strategy that you use to help deal with situations? What is one that
you would like to try?

3.1- What Causes Stress?

1) Define:
Stress
Eustress
Distress
Stressor
2) What are the four general types of stressors?
3.2- How Stress Affects Your Body
1) List in order the three stages of the bodys response to stress.
2) List 5 behaviors changes that can act as early warning signs for stress.
3.3- Stress and Individuals
1) Define:
Optimism
Pessimism
Perfectionist
Resilience

3.4- Coping With Stress

1) List and explain the 6 strategies that you can use to help control stress.
2) What is one strategy that you already use to control stress? What is one that you
would like to improve at and/or try?
4.1- Mental Disorders
1) Define:

Mental Disorder
Anxiety
Phobia
Mood Disorder
Depression
2) What is a personality disorder? What are the characteristics for each type of
personality disorder?

4.2- Eating Disorders

1) Give the definition, signs and symptoms, health risks, and treatments for each of
the following eating disorders.
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia
Binge Eating Disorder
4.3- Depression and Suicide
1) What are signs of clinical depression?
2) List some alternative actions that people could do if they feel the urge to injure
themselves.
3) What are some risk factors of suicide?
4) What should you do and what should you NOT do if a friend is thinking about
suicide?
6.3- Responsible Relationships
1) What are the three stages in the cycle of violence? Give examples of what can
happen in each stage.
2) What are some warning signs of abuse?
3) What are the steps to ending an abusive relationship?

Bully Documentary Questions

1) What does the Longs story make you think about and feel? Who bears the
responsibility for the effects of bullying?
2) What does Alexs story make you think and feel? How do people respond when they
encounter a difference they dont understand?
3) What can parents and school officials do to help a child who is bullied? What kind of
responses can help and what kind will make matters worse? When is adult intervention
most helpful?
Bullying PSA Reflection Questions
1) What did you like about doing this project? Dislike?
2) What were some challenges you faced during the project? How did you/your group
deal with the challenges you faced?
3) If you could go back, what would you change about your project? Why?
4) What did you learn about technology while participating in this project?
5) How did creating the PSA change your opinion about bullying?
8.1- Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins
1) Define:
NutrientMetabolismCalorie
2) Give the function, types, and recommended amounts for carbohydrates, fats, and
proteins.
Carbohydrates
Function:
Types:
Recommended amount:
Fats
Function:

Types:
Recommended amount:
Proteins
Function:
Types:
Recommended amount:
8.2- Vitamins, Mineral, and Water
1) What are vitamins? What are the two classes of vitamins? Which vitamins are in
each class?
2) What are the seven minerals that we need?
3) How much water do we need to consume daily? What are some symptoms of
dehydration?
8.3- Guidelines for Healthful Eating
1) What foods do the six colored bands of the food pyramid stand for?
2) What are the recommended servings per day for each type of food?
9.1- Choosing Food Wisely
1) What is your basal metabolic rate (BMR)? Show work.
2) Reflect on what you learned about the different food labels and health claims. What
did you learn? Knowing what you know now, are you going to make any changes to
the food that you eat?

9.2- Safely Managing Your Weight

1) Define body composition.
2) What are the three factors that determine a persons weight? Put the factors in
order of which you believe they determine your weight. Explain why you ordered them
this way.

3) What are some dangerous diet plans? What are some sensible weight loss
techniques/strategies?
15.1- Alcohol is a drug
1) Define:
Drug:
Depressant:
2) What are some effects that alcohol can have on the body?
3) If a drink is labeled as 120 proof, how much percent alcohol is it?
4) How do alcohol advertisements try to influence people to drink their product?
5) Who/what has the biggest influence in your decisions about alcohol?
15.2- Alcohols Effects on the Body
1) Define intoxication:
2) Which is a more reliable measure of intoxication, blood alcohol level (BAC) or the
number of drinks consumed? Why?
3) What are the factors that affect a persons BAC?
4) What are some warning signs of alcohol poisoning?
16.2- Chemicals in Tobacco Products
1) Define:
Stimulants
Carcinogens
2) What are the major short-term effects of nicotine use?
3) What are the factors that can determine how quickly someone becomes addicted to
nicotine?
4) Other than nicotine, what are the two most harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke?

16.3- Risks of Tobacco Use

1) What are some long-term risks of tobacco use?

2) Define:
COPD:
Chronic Bronchitis:
Emphysema:
3) What is mainstream smoke? Sidestream smoke? Secondhand smoke?
4) What are some risks for women who smoke while pregnant?
5) What are some tips to quit tobacco use?
17.1- Legal and Illegal Drugs
1) What are the two categories of medicines? How are they different?
2) Define:
Drug abuse:
Drug misuse:
Psychoactive drug:
Drug antagonism:
Drug synergism:
17.3- Commonly Abused Drugs
1) Define, give examples, and list effects of:
Depressants:
Stimulants:
Hallucinogens:
Club Drugs:
21.1- Understanding Infectious Diseases
1) Define:
PathogensBacteriaVirusFungiProtozoans2) What are some ways that pathogens spread?

21.2- Defenses Against Disease

1) What are the 5 chemical and physical defenses that your body has?
2) What are the 3 functions of T cells?
3) What is the function of B cells? Define antibodies.
4) What are the four steps of the immune response?

21.3- Common Infectious Diseases

1) List the four common bacterial diseases and their symptoms.
2) Define:
Antibiotic:
3) List the four common viral diseases.
4) How are the 3 types of hepatitis transmitted?
5) When should you seek professional medical care?