Standards - Health Education

Explain how stress can affect personal health.

List ways to reduce or prevent injuries and illness.

Describe benefits of practicing healthy behaviors.

Examine how personal health and wellness are affected positively or negatively by an individual's surroundings.

Identify how positive family practices and beliefs promote personal health.

Examine how family and peers influence the health of adolescents.

List personal family guidelines and rules that enhance health.

List peer situations that enhance health.

Identify health services offered in the school.

Investigate how messages from media influence health behaviors.

Explain the influence of values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.

Identify how bad health choices result in poor personal health.

Analyze the validity of a variety of Internet sources for health information.

Identify local resources for reliable health information.

Determine the accessibility of reliable resources, personnel, and services that enhance health.

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate appropriate nonverbal communication skills someone could use when upset.

List refusal and negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Determine when and how to utilize different communication strategies to deal with a variety of situations and conflicts.

Describe situations that can help or hinder making a healthy decision.

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.

Assess personal health practices.

Describe how setting goals to increase time for physical activity and academic study may reduce stress.

List activities that can improve physical and mental health.

Critique examples of responsible behaviors that reduce health risks.

Describe practices to avoid to reduce health risks to self and others.

State a health-enhancing position and support it with accurate information.

Identify ways by which health messages can be altered to appeal to different audiences.

Summarize the interrelationship of emotional, social, and physical health.

Determine how peers may affect the six dimensions of health.

Illustrate how changing family dynamics can affect health.

Predict the risk of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Give examples of dangers associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

Determine barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Examine how nutritional choices and psychological issues may lead to eating disorders.