Time Management
Why is Time Management Important?
How does one become a good Time manager?
How do I manage my time for success in Secondary School?
Understand why secondary students need to manage their time effectively
Develop strategies for effectively managing their time i.e. completion of homework, use of the library/IT rooms, use appropriate secondary school
procedures
Are able to follow their timetable and ensure that they always have the correct equipment and are fully prepared for lessons
Developing Potential
What is potential?
What are some strategies for developing our potential?
How do we know when we are maximizing our potential?
Describe what potential is
Develop strategies for ensuring that they are reaching their potential
Set realistic and measurable targets in order to assist them in measuring their potential
Puberty and Nutrition
What biological changes take place during puberty and how do we cope with them?
What types of social changes take place during puberty and how do we cope with them?
What is the best diet for peak body performance in Puberty and beyond?
At the end of this unit students should be able to:
Describe the biological changes that occur in boys and girls as they go through puberty
Understand how they might be affected social due to the changes in their body
Develop strategies to cope with changes
Understand the principles behind a health diet
Health Related Fitness - Integrated project with PE
What is health, well-being and fitness?
Describe what being health and fit consists of
Understand that fitness is made up of different components
Complete an individual fitness profile
Study Skills: Exams
What is the best way to prepare for exams?
What are the most effective strategies for taking an Exam?
How should we eat, sleep, and behave during Exams?
Have an awareness of different revision strategies and utilize the ones they feel are most effective for them
Recognize their preferred Learning Style
Describe how to look after their body when revising
Course Content M2
Objectives
Student Outcomes
Diseases
What are Bacteria, viral, and fungal diseases?
What are waterborne diseases and how do they affect us?
What can we do to help reduce the risks of getting sick?
What areas of the schools have the most bacteria?
Describe the differences between Bacteria, Viral and Fungal diseases
Give examples of the different types of diseases
Understand the impact waterborne diseases have on society
Suggest strategies for minimizing infection rates
Undertake an investigation of the school, find out where possible sources of infection are to be found
First Aid
What is First Aid and in what situations might you have to use it?
What should I do in the case of bleeding, burns/scolds, choking, soft tissue injuries, broken bones, poisoning and animal bites?
Understand the principles and limitations of First Aid
Know what to do in the case of bleeding, burns/scolds, choking, soft tissue injuries, broken bones, poisoning and animal bites?
Smoking
Why do people smoke?
What are the biological affects of smoking?
What impact can smoking have on your social life?
How to deal with peer pressure?
Explain why some people choose to smoke while others choose not to
Understand the biological effects of smoking
Be able to describe how smoking can impact your social life
Develop strategies to deal with peer pressure regarding smoking
Have an understanding of how smoking is viewed in different cultures and communities, including here in Tanzania
Friendship and Self-Esteem
What is the purpose of friendship?
What is a good friend?
How does one develop positive self-esteem?
To what extent can positive Self-Esteem help you develop your friendship?
Describe what friendship is and why it is important.
Develop strategies for developing and creating friendship
Describe what self-esteem is and develop strategies to improve their personal self-esteem
Understand the link between self esteem and friendship
Health-Related Fitness - Integrated project with PE
What is the cardio-vascular system?
How can I improve my cardio-vascular fitness?
Understand how the cardio-vascular system works
Describe how different intensities of exercise affect the cardiovascular system.
Understand how to improve the efficiency of the c-v system be able to work out their individual target zone and produce a training session where the heart rate is in that zone.
Study Skills: Exams
What is the best way to prepare for exams?
What are the most effective strategies for taking an Exam?
How should we eat, sleep, and behave during Exams?
Use a variety of revision methods
Develop an ability to effectively take notes
Recognize their preferred Learning Style
Develop strategies for looking after themselves during the exam period
Course Content M3
Objectives
Student Outcomes
Rules, rights and responsibilities (linked to World Studies)
What would life be like in Anarchy?
Why do we have rules?
Are all rules good?
What are your rights and responsibilities?
Understand why society needs to follow rules
Form opinions regarding the rights and wrongs of rules
Understand what their rights as a child are
Understand what their responsibilities are
HIV/AIDS
What is HIV and AIDS?
How is it transmitted?
How does it affect your body?
How is it distributed worldwide?
What effect does it have on communities and the individual?
What prevention and cures are there?
Describe the difference between HIV and AIDS
Explain how HIV is transmitted
Understand how HIV and Aids affect the human body
Describe the steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of HIV and minimise it’s affect on the body
Understand how HIV/AIDS effects a person socially and its effects on the wider community, especially here in Tanzania
Alcohol
Why do some people drink and why do others choose not to drink?
How does alcohol affect your body?
What are some of the consequences of drinking?
How to deal with peer pressure?
Describe why some people choose to drink and why others choose not to.
Understand the affect of alcohol on the body, including gender differences
Understand what the consequences of drink might be and how these might be minimised
Develop strategies to cope with peer pressure to drink
Have an understanding of how drinking is viewed in different cultures and communities, including here in Tanzania
First Aid - (linked to life saving in PE)
What did you learn in M2?
How to respond to a situation?
How should you deal with an unconscious person?
Demonstrate the first aid skills learnt in M2
Develop the ability to assess the needs of swimmer/s in trouble and prioritize who needs help first
Demonstrate the ability to deal with an unconscious person who is
a)breathing, b)not breathing, but has a pulse and c) not breathing and has no pulse.
Understand the importance of getting fully qualified medical help
Health Related Fitness - Integrated project with PE
What are my strengths and weaknesses in relation to fitness, and how can I improve them?
Describe the different components of health and sports related fitness
Understand how they can be measured.
Develop an understanding of the methods used to improve these different components of fitness.
Evaluate their own level of fitness and plan a training session to improve areas they feel are in need of strengthening.
Teen Sexuality and Relationships
How do you develop trust in a relationship?
What are the 'bases' and what is the best way to round them?
To what extent can sex complicate a relationship?
Describe the different types of relationships they have with different people
Understand how trust is developed and maintained in a relationship
Understand that relationships have different ‘bases’ and that different individuals reach these bases at different times
Understand that teenaged relationships may well be complicated by sexual behaviour
Have an understanding of how teen sexuality is viewed in different cultures and communities, including here in Tanzania
Course Content M4
Objectives
Student Outcomes
Contraception
How are babies conceived?
What are the different types of contraception available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods?
Describe the biological process of conceptions in humans
Describe what the different methods of contraception are including abstinence
Understand the advantages and disadvantages of these different methods in relation to effectiveness of preventing conception, short and long-term effects on the body and protection from STDs
Demonstrate an understand of the correct way to use selected methods of contraception
Have an understanding of how teen sexuality is viewed in different cultures and communities, including here in Tanzania
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
What are STDs?
How can I identify and treat different STDs?
How can we prevent STDs
Describe what STDs are
Understand how STDs are transmitted and how this transmition can be prevented
Describe the short term and long term effects on the body of different STDs
Recognise the symptoms of STDs and appropriate treatments.
Work Experience?
What type of career might I be interested in?
What would I need to do to do to get into this job?
How should I write an application letter?
What makes a good CV?
What is an interview and how should I prepare myself?
Have a better idea of what type of career they might be interested in
Develop an understanding of what the entry requirements for this career are
Demonstrate the ability to write an application letter and construct a CV
Understand what is required of them in an interview
Undertake a weeks work experience that they have arranged
Gender Issues
How do we Gender identity: nature or nurture?
What are the stereotypes and the problems faced by men and women in society and what can be done about this?
What is Homosexuality and how is it viewed in different societies?
Describe what we mean by gender
Discuss the stereotypes held regarding gender and understand how this can cause problems for men and women
Understand how specific gender related behaviors are often socially learnt (nature vs nurture)
Develop strategies for dealing with barriers them might come across due to stereotypes commonly held
Understand the problems often faced by Homosexuals due to gender related stereotypes.
Relate the issues above to the situation in Tanzania
Course Content M5
Objectives
Student Outcomes
Stress Management
How do different people deal with stress?
How are tobacco, drugs and Alcohol used to deal with stress?
How do relationships, death, moving cause stress and how can you deal with it?
Why do some people feel suicidal?
Identify different causes of stress and suggest ways that people deal with them
Understand how Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco are used to deal with stress and the possible consequences of this
Understand why some people feel suicidal
Develop strategies for dealing with different types of stress
Drugs
Why do some young people use drugs?
What are the different types of drugs?
How do different drugs affect the human body?
How might the use of drugs affect your relationship with family and friends?
How to deal with peer pressure?
Understand why some people decide to take drugs
Identify the different types of drugs and describe how they affect the human body
Describe how the use of drugs might effect relationships with friends, family, school work and the wider community
Describe the legal consequences for drug use
Develop strategies for dealing with peer pressure regarding the use of drugs
Have an understanding of how drug use is viewed in different cultures and communities, including here in Tanzania
Where are you going next?
Where do you plan to be next year?
What would you like to be doing once you leave school?
What do you need to do in order to achieve this?
Develop a better idea of possible career paths that they might wish to follow
Understand the options open to them after they finish MYP both at ISM and other post 16 education institutions in Tanzania and abroad
Develop a plan of action that they and their parents need to follow
Nutrition; Stress and bad diets
What constitutes a balanced diet?
As a class plan and run a snack bar at break time
Describe what constitutes a balance and healthy diet
Understand how stress often affects eating patterns.
Develop an understanding of eating disorders and develop strategies to avoid them
Identify weakness in their own eating pattern
Create a healthy menu for a snack bar and operate a snack bar at break time
Study Skills for final exams
Independently prepare themselves for their final examinations.
