HE19.5.6.A
Self-Awareness
Self-Awareness
Self-Awareness
Create a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.
Problem-Solving
Identify resources in the school that may assist with achieving personal health goals.
Anchor Standard 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. (Self-Management)
Monitor Progress
Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.
Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family
Injury Prevention
Propose safety precautions for Internet use and electronic gaming.
Anchor Standard 8: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health. (Advocacy)
Promote Healthy Habits
Implement a school health improvement project.
Example: participating in the development of a school wellness policy, conducting survey of school health issues
Grade 6
Anchor Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. (Health Promotion)
Describe the interrelationship between social and emotional health in adolescence.
Identify how positive relationships can enhance each dimension of health.
Explain how stress can affect personal health.
List ways to reduce or prevent injuries and illness.
Examples: stretching techniques, regular exercise, equipment safety, flu shot, obtaining immunizations against HPV and other conditions
Describe benefits of practicing healthy behaviors.
Examples: using household products only for intended purposes, dietary choices, physical activity, drinking plenty of water
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.
Examples: regular dental and vision check-ups, regular doctor visits
Anchor Standard 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. (Analyzing Influences)
Examine how family and peers influence the health of adolescents.
Examples: inactivity, fast food consumption
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.
Examples: social media, fast food advertisements, editing photos to enhance physical appearance
Explain the influence of values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.
Examples: family values, religious beliefs
Identify how bad health choices result in poor personal health.
Example: excessive caloric intake resulting in excess poundage
Anchor Standard 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health. (Access to Information/ Products/ Services)
Analyze the validity of a variety of Internet sources for health information.
Examples: valid sites -.edu (education), .org (non-profit), or .gov (government); unreliable health information sites - .com (commercial)
Identify local resources for reliable health information.
Examples: public health agencies, school nurse, health education teacher
Determine the accessibility of reliable resources, personnel, and services that enhance health.
Examples: school counselor, school nurse, dentist, 911
Anchor Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. (Interpersonal Communication)
Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
Examples: praise, high-five, fist bump, thumbs up