Teen Health Course 2

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Introduction
How can making healthy decisions affect your physical, mental/emotional, and social health? Learn why the health habits of teens are monitored and how risk behaviors impact their health. Then consider how you can use the decision-making model to make healthy choices to improve your health and wellness.

Link to explore: Healthy Youth http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/healthtopics/index.htm

Instructions

• Start at the Healthy Youth Web site
• Click on and read through the paragraphs on the Six Critical Health Behaviors, taking notes as you go. Then choose one Other Important Health Topic and read the information under the heading you choose.
• When you are done, answer the questions below.
• Finally, using the information from the Web site above, write six healthy choices teens can make to avoid risks to their health.

1			Which of the six critical health behaviors did you choose?
2			Think of one situation regarding that topic that might affect your health and write it down.
3			List the six decision making steps you learned about in your text
4			Describe the steps a teen should consider to make a healthy decision in the situation you described in step 2.
5			What other important fact did you learn from the health topic you read about that is important to adolescent health?