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Health/Health Instruction
Health/Health Instruction
The Iowa State Legislature and the Iowa Department of Education require that all Iowa students in grades kindergarten through twelve be provided instruction in the following areas as part of their health curriculum. Instructional areas to be covered are: personal health; food and nutrition; environmental health; safety and survival skills; consumer health; family life; substance use and non-use, including the effects of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and poisons on the human body; human sexuality; self-esteem; stress management; interpersonal relationships; emotional and social health; health resources; prevention and control of disease; and the characteristics of communicable diseases, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Health instruction in each of these areas will be adapted appropriately for student age and understanding levels. Beginning no later than seventh grade, communicable disease instruction shall include information about sexually transmitted diseases.
Those individuals wishing to examine the course objectives and/or instructional materials can do so by contacting the school office. Parents/guardians having objections may file a written request with the building principal to exclude their student from instruction.
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Handbook Sections
- Abuse of Students by District Personnel
- Academic Eligibility
- Activities
- Activities Program
- Adventuretime
- Affirmative Action
- Appeal Procedures
- Arrival/Departure Times:
- Attendance
- Attendance/Activity Attendance by Absent Students - UMS
- Attendance/All Day Absence
- Attendance/Arrival/Departure Procedures/Arrival Times
- Attendance/Attendance & Punctuality - UMS
- Attendance/Attendance Requirements
- Attendance/Homework
- Attendance/Make-Up Work
- Attendance/Partial Day Absences
- Bicycles... - Middle School
- BUS CONDUCT RULES
- Cancellation Policy/Early Dismissal/Delayed Starts
- Caring:
- Character Does Count
- Citizenship:
- Co-Curricular Activities
- Code of Conduct
- Code of Conduct - UMS
- Complaint Procedures
- Controversial Issues
- Copying Copyright Materials
- Corporal Punishment
- Cumulative Records
- Curriculum
- Custody/Visitation Agreements
- Daily Schedule
- Dances
- Detention
- Detention - UMS
- Discipline, Behavior, and Responsibility of Students
- Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities/Federal Section 504 Policy Statement
- Displays of Affection
- Displays of Affection - UMS
- Distribution of Organization Materials
- Dress Guidelines
- Dress Guidelines - UMS
- Due Process
- Electronic Device/Cell Phone Policy
- Emergency Dismissal Plan
- Emergency Procedures
- Excessive Absences
- Excused Absences
- Fairness:
- Fees/Fee Waivers
- Fever
- Field Trips
- Fire and Tornado Drills
- Food and Beverages
- Food Service Program Rules
- Free and Reduced Price Meals (State Policy)
- Gangs
- General Co-Curricular Guidelines for Athletic Participation
- Gift Law
- Guidance Policy - UHS & UMS
- Guidance Program
- Gum Chewing/Candy - UMS
- Hazardous Materials/Asbestos-AHERA Notification
- Hazardous Materials/Hazardous Chemical Disclosure
- Health Screening
- Health/Accident/Illness at School
- Health/Health Instruction
- Health/Health Records
- Health/Health Services
- Health/Hearing
- Health/Immunizations
- Health/Incident Reports
- Health/Insurance of Students
- Health/Universal Precautions
- Holidays and Parties
- Homebound
- Homeless Statement
- Honor Roll
- Illnesses and Dismissal from School
- Internet - Student Usage
- Leaving School During Day
- Leaving School for Lunch
- Lockers of Students
- Lost and Found
- Lunch/Breakfast
- Media Center Guidelines
- Medical Conditions/Allergies
- Medical Information
- Medications
- Non-Discrimination Policy
- Open Enrollment Option
- Organizations
- Outside Resource People
- Parties/Social Functions - UMS
- Personal Property/Electronic Devices/Cell Phones
- Philosophy of Music Education In the Urbandale Community School District
- Physical Education - UMS
- Progress Reports/Conferences
- PTO - UMS
- Public Conduct on School Premises
- Records of Students
- Religion
- Religious Based Exclusion from School Program
- REPORTING OF AN ABSENCE:
- Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials
- Requests to Stay Indoors
- Respect:
- Responsibility:
- School Board Meetings
- School Days - Early Dismissal Due to Inclement Weather (K-12)
- School Days - Late Start (K-8)
- School District Curfew
- SCHOOL HOURS
- School Offices
- School Pictures
- School Pictures - UMS
- School Resource Officer/Juvenile Court Resource Officer/DARE Officer
- Sexual and Other Harassment
- Smoking Policy
- Solicitations
- Solicitations
- Special Education Services
- Staff
- Standards of the Music Department Of the Urbandale Community School District
- Student Directories
- Student Expressions
- Student Searches
- STUDENTS RIDING DIFFERENT BUSES
- Supplies
- Talented and Gifted - UMS
- Tardiness - UMS
- Telephone Usage - UMS
- Textbook Use
- Transportation/Bus Rules and Regulations
- Transportation/District Busing
- Trips with Students
- Trustworthiness:
- Tutoring and Conducting Personal Business
- UMS Band & Choir
- Unexcused Absences
- Video Cameras
- Visiting School and Vendors
- Visitors
- Volunteers
- Vomiting
- Weapons and Firearms