21.3-5.HL.1
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Obtain, interpret, understand and use basic health concepts to enhance personal, family, and community health.
Know and use concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention
- Describe the influence of risk and protective factors
- Identify examples of physical, emotional, intellectual, environmental, social, sexual and spiritual wellness during childhood
- Analyze how heredity, environment and personal health are related
- Explain proper prevention/management of health crises
- Identify where to find help with health care when needed
- Describe the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems
- Identify how personal choices impact health and disease prevention
- Describe preventive physical and mental health measures, including proper diet, nutrition, exercise, risk avoidance and stress reduction
Analyze influencing factors on health enhancing behaviors
- Describe how diverse families, peers, cultural practices and attitudes influence health related decisions
- Describe how media, technology, research and medical advances impact health
- Recognize how national and international public health and safety issues affect personal and family health status
21.3-5.HL.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Utilize interactive literacy and social skills to establish personal family, and community health goals.
Demonstrate social and communication skills that enhance health and increase safety
- Demonstrate appropriate verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health of self and others
- Practice strategies to manage or resolve conflict
- State methods of obtaining help for self and others
- Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, empathy and respect for self and others
Advocate for personal, family and community health
- Identify personal, family and community health needs
- Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices
- Describe ways to improve family and community health
- Articulate effective communication related to health care practices
- Use assertive communications skills to consistently advocate for a healthy, violence-free environment
21.3-5.HL.3
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate critical literacy/thinking skills related to personal, family, and community wellness.
Demonstrate decision making skills
- Explain different approaches to making decisions
- Describe the effectiveness of health-related decisions
- Demonstrate the ability to seek assistance when making health related decisions
- Recognize that health related decisions have an impact on individual, family, community, and environment
Demonstrate goal-setting skills
- Develop goals to enhance health status
21.3-5.HL.4
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Recognize that media and other influences affect personal, family and community health.
Analyze the influence of family, peers, health professionals, culture, media, technology, and other health factors
- Demonstrate appropriate responses to negative and positive health influences
- Recognize public health policies that aid in the prevention and maintenance of school and community health
- Describe the influence of cultural diversities on health behaviors
- Explain how information from school and family influences health
- Identify characteristics of valid health information sources
- Recognize the techniques used by print and non-print media sources
Access valid information, products and services
- Identify factors that influence the selection of health products and services
21.3-5.HL.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate behaviors that foster healthy, active lifestyles for individuals and the benefit of society.
Achieve and maintain health enhancing level of physical activity
- Identify personal physical strengths and weaknesses
- Engage in physical activities to improve fitness components
Practice preventive health behaviors
- Demonstrate appropriate and effective stress management
- Assess risk factors that contribute to healthy choices
- Choose healthy foods
- Demonstrate behaviors that contribute to holistic wellness for individuals, families and communities