Description
Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive health course that will provide students with what they need to know to make the best choices for themselves as they become young adults.
Curriculum Overview
Apologia’s health and nutrition curriculum covers the physical, nutritional, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual aspects of growing into a healthy adult.
The course respectfully covers topics including mental illness, sexual reproduction, and biological sex as related to our gender roles from a Biblical worldview.
Topics covered include:
- Why Does Health Matter?
- Physical Influences on Thoughts and Feelings
- Mental and Emotional Stability
- Interpersonal Harmony
- Senses
- Nourishment and Hydration
- Food Science: Macronutrients and Micronutrients
- Body Systems and Structure
- Physical Fitness
- Infection and Immunity
- Spiritual Health
- Sexual Reproduction
Textbook
Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition is written in a conversational format, with the author talking directly to your student. Your student is guided through key learning strategies, such as thinking critically about what they are learning, identifying important parts of the information presented, taking meaningful notes, and completing projects.
Testing
There is no Solutions Manual for this course. The tests are located in the student notebook, and the answer keys for study guides and tests are accessible in Book Extras.
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Student Notebook
The student notebook for Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition, 2nd Edition, is highly recommended. It is designed to help students foster the independence, organization, and preparation they need to thrive academically.
Notetaking helps students retain information, review for tests, and record their thoughts as they connect the concepts presented in the textbook with their own ideas. Taking good notes can bridge the gap to mastering a concept with the following advantages:
- Students stay focused on what they are reading.
- Students pay closer attention, which increases their retention.
- Students have notes in their own words to review for tests.
- Students learn to connect new information to what they already know.
Additionally, the student notebook helps students answer study questions, record their work on the course projects, and keep a carefully organized account of their coursework.
The student notebook contains:
- Suggested Daily Schedule
- Note-taking pages
- Space to answer all study questions in the textbook, which serves as a review and prep for the tests
- Project assignments and forms
- Module tests and evaluation guides
- Personal reflection pages where students record their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual reactions to what they are learning
Audiobook
The audiobook version of the textbook is the perfect accompaniment to the textbook for students who are auditory learners, slow readers, or have learning challenges that make reading difficult.
Frequently Asked Questions
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