Standards - Health Education

Predict the consequences of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Discuss ways to prevent obesity.

Determine health risks associated with body piercings or tattoos.

Research family medical history and how it impacts personal health now and in the future.

Discuss hereditary diseases that impact personal health and wellness.

Describe how family values and behaviors influence the health of adolescents.

Explain how communities can affect personal health practices and behaviors.

Describe how the media can send mixed messages about health.

Explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Discuss how risky choices influence the likelihood of unhealthy behaviors, including tobacco use increasing the risk of using other drugs and peer pressure to consume alcohol.

Distinguish between facts and myths of health information.

Examine beliefs concerning the transmission of HIV/AIDS; distinguish between fact and fallacy.

Demonstrate the ability to locate valid school and community health resources.

Discuss effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

Model refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate skills that avoid conflict.

Distinguish when a self-decision should be made or if help should be sought from a responsible adult.

Determine when it is necessary to ask for assistance when making a health choice.

Analyze healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making decisions.

Assess current personal health practices and set a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve one or more health practices.

Describe changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities that impact personal health goals.

State the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors and avoiding risky behaviors.

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Create ways to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Describe which advertising appeals are being used in various advertisements.

Explain how emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, mental, and social health affect each other.

Determine how social influences can affect physical health.

Describe how risky health behaviors affect the emotional, physical, and social health of adolescents.

Analyze how the environment, family history, personal behaviors, and health care can affect individual healthful living.

Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and illness in adolescents as it pertains to family history, personal behaviors, and health care.

Create a plan for eliminating personal unhealthy behaviors.

Analyze the relationship between engaging in regular physical activity and healthy eating as ways to improve personal health.

Analyze family history to determine the effects of health conditions that may be chronic or acute diseases.

Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.

Examine ways the school and community encourage students to use appropriate life skills to improve health.