Standard/Goal One

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 1: Students will evaluate how personal behavior can impact the health of self, peers, and family.

6-8 BENCHMARKS:

  1. model appropriate ways to express feelings in a variety of age-appropriate situations.
  2. engage in a variety of positive, personal hygienic behaviors.
  3. analyze how appropriate and inappropriate health practices affect self and family.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities: (These statements are provided only as SAMPLES. There is one, (sometime two) sample statement per benchmark. In the development of a comprehensive local curriculum, districts must articulate a variety of statements which support the benchmarks at each grade level.)

Sixth Grade

Seventh Grade

Eighth Grade
  1. use appropriate communication skills when expressing needs, wants, and feelings to others.
  2. describe the necessity of modifying grooming and hygiene practices as the body changes.
  3. identify practices that improve levels of health for self and family, e.g., eating a balance, nutritious diet.

 
  1. use appropriate and healthy communication strategies when expressing needs, wants, and feeling to others.
  2. explore positive ways to express/handle emotions, e.g., mood swings, hurt feelings, loneliness.
  3. determine how personal hygiene and grooming affect personal health, e.g., regular dental care, bathing.
  4. investigate practices that improve levels of health for self and family, e.g., regular physical activity.
  1. express needs, wants, and feelings to others in a considerate and respectful manner.
  2. evaluate the effect of hygiene and grooming on personal health, e.g., care of teeth with braces, appropriate skin care.
  3. analyze health practices which demonstrate an improved level of health for self and family, e.g., determining the effect of good sleep habits.

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 2: Students will analyze the impact of emotional, social, and physical health on various interrelated body parts.

6-8 BENCHMARKS:

  1. explain how health is influenced by the interaction of body systems.
  2. examine practices which enhance personal emotional, social, and physical well being.
  3. examine ways to avoid, minimize, or cope with adolescent health problems.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Sixth Grade

Seventh Grade

Eighth Grade
  1. explain how body systems work together and can be affected by outside forces.
  2. describe the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence.
  3. describe the impact health habits have on personal well being, e.g., stress management, nutrition, physical fitness.

 

 

 
  1. determine how functions of the body systems can be altered by external forces, e.g., disease, risky behavior, and nutrition.
  2. describe how personal behavior and responsibility impact an individual’s health and well being.
  3. analyze the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence.
  4. describe healthy lifestyle practices which are influenced by norms and social forces, e.g., diet, sexual activity, physical fitness.
  1. analyze how normal functioning of the body systems can be altered or interrupted, e.g., disease, injury, and improper nutrition.
  2. analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease prevention throughout life.
  3. evaluate the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence, e.g., stress management.

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 3: Students will analyze how medical research, government regulations, and public health policies influence health promotion and disease prevention.

6-8 BENCHMARKS:

  1. determine how medical research influences health care and disease prevention.
  2. analyze health care requirements and policies which affect safety and well being.
  3. examine health practices which may cause and/or spread/prevent diseases.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Sixth Grade

Seventh Grade

Eighth Grade
  1. explore how research and medical advances have helped control and prevent disease, e.g., heart disease, and cancer.
  2. explain how various policies and regulations can promote personal health and well being.
  3. examine how personal decisions can affect the control or spread of communicable diseases, e.g. head lice.

 

 
  1. investigate how research and medical advances help control and prevent health problems, e.g., asthma, and allergies.
  2. describe the influence of governmental policies and regulations on the promotion of health and disease prevention.
  3. investigate the effect of specific practices and behaviors on the control or spread of communicable diseases, e.g., hepatitis, HIV.
  1. analyze how the prevention and control of health problems are influenced by research and medical advances, e.g., diabetes and diet, cancer and sunscreen.
  2. analyze how public health policies and government regulations influence health promotion and disease prevention, e.g. immunization policies, health certification.
  3. evaluate the effect of specific practices that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases.