Health Return to index Grade 6 Grade 8-10

Grades 6 HEALTH Standard #1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention 6.1.1 Understands the relationship between positive health behavior and the prevention of health risks 6.1.2 Knows the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence   Standard #2: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks 6.2.1 Understands the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors 6.2.2 Understands ways to avoid and treat life threatening situations   Standard #3: Students will understand the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health 6.3.1 Understands the influence of local lifestyles and its effects on health behaviors 6.3.2 Realizes how messages from media and other sources influence health behavior   Standard #4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use communication skills to enhance health 6.4.1 Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, feelings, and respect for self and others 6.4.2 Demonstrates communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships Standard #5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health 6.5.1 Understands how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self and others   Standard #6: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health 6.6.1 Expresses information and opinions about health issues