In recent months I have seen many homeschoolers in search of Homeschool Health and Nutrition for high school. This spurred me to do a search for myself. I was surprised to find so little where this topic is concerned! And if you live in NYS like we do, finding a homeschool health curriculum for high school may be of more importance to you because the NYS Homeschool Regulations require 1/2 credit of health for the high school years.

I did find a few programs for Fulfilling Homeschool High School Health Credits, both secular and Christian worldview, many only covered health or nutrition, but not both. However, I did find some good homeschool health options that cover both health and nutrition along with the ones that do a solid job of covering only homeschool health or nutrition.

One that stands out for me is Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition. {I received a copy of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition as part of this review and I was compensated for my time in writing it. All views are my own and I was not required to write a positive review. Please see my full Disclosure Policy for more details.} This is a homeschool health program for high school that has it all!

Homeschool Health and Nutrition for High School

Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition is a complete one or two-semester high school level health course (depending on how you spread it out) that covers the physical, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual aspects of growing into a healthy adult, written from a Christian worldview.

What’s Included

Student Textbook – Includes most of the reading, On Your Own Questions, and sets up the projects your teen should complete throughout the course

Student Notebook – This is where Apologia excels! We have used other Apologia curricula and I can’t say enough about these student notebooks! This notebook contains a grading chart, suggested daily schedule, pages for note taking while reading the textbook, space to answer the On Your Own Questions, more details about projects, and study guides.

Online Supplemental Info – Apologia has an online supplemental area which contains test solutions, study guide solutions, and extra reading suggestions for each module.

FREE E-Book – You can go to Homeschool 101 and download a FREE activity e-book Whole Health: God’s Design for Your Body, Mind, and Soul that contains extra activities and resources.  You also get samples from Health and Nutrition so you can check it out yourself before you purchase it!

What Topics Are Covered

Apologia’s Homeschool Health & Nutrition course is made up of 15 modules with a suggested schedule of three days each week for a total of 34 weeks. (Detailed schedule is located in the front portion of the student notebook. If you wanted to complete it in less time then your student can do more days each week, ie. Week One could be all 3 days of week One 1 plus 2 days of Week 2, and so on.

Topics include:

• Why does health matter?
• Genetics and temperament
• Physical influences on thoughts and feeling
• Mental and emotional stability
• Interpersonal harmony
• Your senses
• Nourishment and hydration
• What you eat and the why/how of exercise
• Infection and the lymphatic system
• Reproduction and STDs
• And SO MUCH MORE!

What We Love About It

Easy To Use Format

From the built in schedule to the practical spiral bound notebook, to the included extensive study guides and tests, this curriculum was built for ease of use!

Practical Topics & Advice

This book deals with not only the science behind so many of our body functions, but also deals with emotional health and offers practical tips and advice for handling it all. Things like how to deal with bad breath, proper flossing technique, blood typing, how to read food labels, a detailed how and why on vitamins and minerals, and even an extensive section on emotional health which is extremely important in times where the child suicide rate is startlingly high.

One of the things it has you do is take a color-blindness test. While we don’t have color blindness in our family, my son and I found it fascinating because we know people who are color blind and it really helped us to understand what they are actually seeing, or not seeing!

More Than Just Health or Science

This book truly does it all! It is an extensive human body science text, as well as health and nutrition (with tons of things to do and implement in your own life), as well as delving into mental and emotional stability.

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