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| HE.K.R.1.1 | Define and give examples of kindness and caring. |
| HE.K.R.1.2 | Demonstrate the ability to take turns and share with others. |
| HE.K.R.1.3 | Describe ways to show respect to others. |
| HE.K.R.1.4 | Identify the difference between the truth and a lie. |
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| HE.K.R.2.1 | Identify healthy choices that affect personal wellness. |
| HE.K.R.2.2 | Demonstrate the ability to follow rules and directions. |
| HE.K.R.2.3 | Discuss the value of goal setting. |
| HE.K.R.2.4 | Identify and recognize basic feelings. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sad, mad, happy, excited, and worried. |
| HE.K.R.2.5 | Identify personal strengths and actions individuals can do independently. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social strengths including listening, sharing, adapting, empathy, showing courage, and leadership. |
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| HE.K.R.3.1 | Identify the roles and responsibilities of trusted adults. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Trusted adults may include parents, teachers, police officers, school counselors, and grandparents. |
| HE.K.R.3.2 | Identify characteristics of a good citizen in school and the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes following rules, listening, and being a good friend. |
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| HE.K.R.4.1 | Identify when help is needed and who to ask for help. |
| HE.K.R.4.2 | Identify the importance of sharing thoughts and ideas to solve problems. |
| HE.K.R.4.3 | Discuss ways to work together to solve problems. |
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| HE.K.PHC.1.1 | Identify healthy behaviors that affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes personal care behaviors, including brushing teeth, having adequate sleep, personal hygiene, physical activity, and practicing healthy eating habits. |
| HE.K.PHC.1.2 | Understand how you can prevent childhood injuries in the home, school, and community settings. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes wearing a helmet and flotation devices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes identifying poisons and other harmful substances. |
| HE.K.PHC.1.3 | Recognize there are body parts inside and outside of the body. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the heart, brain, muscles, and skin. |
| HE.K.PHC.1.4 | Recognize ways you can prevent common communicable diseases. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes washing hands, covering mouth to cough and sneeze, and flushing toilets. |
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| HE.K.PHC.2.1 | Identify members of the school and community who support personal health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Members include teachers, counselors, nurses, doctors, and first responders. |
| HE.K.PHC.2.2 | Name healthy behaviors that family members should practice. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes brushing teeth and staying home when sick. |
| HE.K.PHC.2.3 | Identify safe and unsafe examples of internet use. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safe uses such as playing games, watching appropriate television shows, and learning. Clarification 2: Instruction includes unsafe uses such as sharing private information and interacting with unknown senders. Clarification 3: Instruction includes unsafe screen time leading to health issues. |
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| HE.K.PHC.3.1 | Name situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes water safety, following school rules, and practicing good hygiene. |
| HE.K.PHC.3.2 | Recognize healthy options to personal health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes visiting the doctor, obeying safety rules, and practicing emergency preparedness. Clarification 2: Instruction includes limiting screen time and television shows to less than one hour per day to increase physical and mental wellbeing. Clarification 3: Instruction includes reporting unsafe behavior, in person and on the internet, to a trusted adult. |
| HE.K.PHC.3.3 | Recognize the consequences of not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes injury to self and/or others. |
| HE.K.PHC.3.4 | Define a personal health goal and how it relates to overall health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes importance of goals. Examples: Example: Eating a healthy breakfast, brushing teeth twice a day, engaging in daily physical activity, limiting sugary drinks, increasing intake of fruits and vegetables. |
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| HE.K.PHC.4.1 | Identify the appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes seeking safety, running for help, and talking to a trusted adult. |
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| HE.K.CEH.1.1 | Recognize ways the community encourages a healthy environment. Examples: Example: Pedestrian bridges, crosswalks, crossing guards, law enforcement. |
| HE.K.CEH.1.2 | Recognize ways in the community to prevent common communicable diseases. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes washing hands, covering mouth to cough and sneeze, and flushing toilets. |
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| HE.K.CEH.2.1 | Explain the importance of rules to maintain health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes additional classroom and school rules for healthy behaviors. Examples: Example: Walking instead of running, waiting your turn, keeping hands and feet to yourself. |
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| HE.K.CEH.3.1 | Recognize ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, car seat installation, etc. |
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| HE.K.CEH.4.1 | Encourage others make positive health choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes encouraging others to choose healthy options, selecting nutritious food, participating in physical activity, and practicing personal hygiene. Examples: Example: Encouraging hand washing. |
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| HE.K.CH.1.1 | Recognize warning labels and signs on hazardous products and places. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Warning labels and signs include poison symbol, universal symbols for “No” and “Do not touch,” and crosswalk signals. |
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| HE.K.CH.3.1 | Define healthy and unhealthy choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes limiting screen time and playing outdoors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes choosing healthy foods. |
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| HE.K.CH.4.1 | Define ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking to speak to a trusted adult when help is needed. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking out the school nurse to help with a health-related problem. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.R.1.1 | Discuss ways to respect personal property and personal space of others. |
| HE.1.R.1.2 | Describe the traits of a good friend. |
| HE.1.R.1.3 | Identify the benefits of sharing and cooperation. |
| HE.1.R.1.4 | Define and give examples of honesty. |
| HE.1.R.1.5 | Identify strategies to overcome a challenge. |
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| HE.1.R.2.1 | Identify my role and responsibilities in the school, community, and family. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes following directions, rules, and procedures. |
| HE.1.R.2.2 | Establish a short-term goal as a class and take action toward achieving the goal. |
| HE.1.R.2.3 | Identify the characteristics of a responsible decision maker. |
| HE.1.R.2.4 | Describe how individual actions can affect others. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sad, mad, happy, excited, and worried. |
| HE.1.R.2.5 | Identify strategies to discover and demonstrate personal strengths. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sense of pride, working toward intrinsic motivation, and experiencing a sense of accomplishment. |
| HE.1.R.2.6 | Identify healthy ways to express needs and wants. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking for assistance from a trusted adult. |
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| HE.1.R.3.1 | Identify characteristics of a leader in the school community. |
| HE.1.R.3.2 | Demonstrate the characteristics of a good citizen in school and the community. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.R.4.1 | Identify the importance of working together to solve problems. |
| HE.1.R.4.2 | Identify the importance of sharing thoughts and ideas as an individual and as part of a group. |
| HE.1.R.4.3 | Understand that conflict may arise when working together. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes differing perspectives. |
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| HE.1.PHC.1.1 | Recognize how healthy behaviors affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes eating breakfast, playing safely on the playground, wearing a helmet on a bike, and participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity. |
| HE.1.PHC.1.2 | Identify how you can prevent childhood injuries in the home, school, and community settings. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as water safety, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety and playground rules. Clarification 2: Instruction includes school safety. |
| HE.1.PHC.1.3 | Identify the correct names of human body parts. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Body parts include stomach, intestines, heart, lungs, skin, muscles, and bones. |
| HE.1.PHC.1.4 | Describe ways you can prevent common communicable diseases. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes washing hands, covering mouth to cough and sneeze, and not sharing food or utensils. |
| HE.1.PHC.1.5 | Tell about behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on following rules and personal hygiene. Clarification 2: Instruction includes limiting screen time to less than one hour per day to increase physical and mental wellbeing. Clarification 3: Instruction includes reporting unsafe behavior, in person and on the internet, to a trusted adult. Examples: Example: Swimming with a buddy and following playground rules. |
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| HE.1.PHC.2.1 | Identify how children learn health behaviors from family and friends. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes family and parents encouraging healthy behaviors such as eating healthy dinners together, physical activities together, setting bedtimes, and screen time rules. Clarification 2: Instruction includes friends exhibiting positive behaviors such as sharing and kindness. |
| HE.1.PHC.2.2 | Explain why personal information should not be shared on the internet. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes dangers of unknown senders. Examples: Example: Personal information to include address, phone numbers, health information, passwords. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.PHC.3.1 | Describe situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes crossing a street and participating in water activities. |
| HE.1.PHC.3.2 | Identify healthy options to personal health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as wearing a bicycle helmet or water flotation devices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes reporting danger or unsafe activities to a trusted adult. |
| HE.1.PHC.3.3 | Explain the consequences of not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes spreading germs that can cause illness in oneself or others. Clarification 2: Instruction includes being physically hurt or hurting others on the playground, on the bus, in the classroom, at home, and in the community. |
| HE.1.PHC.3.4 | Establish a short-term health goal as a class and monitor progress toward achieving the goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: To monitor progress, examples include observation, charting, etc. Examples: Example: Washing hands after using bathroom and before meals, walking quietly in line, raising your hand, etc. |
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| HE.1.PHC.4.1 | Describe appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes talking to a trusted adult and/or parent. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking safety and running for help. Clarification 3: Instruction includes asking for help with safety items. |
| HE.1.PHC.4.2 | Identify ways one can make request to promote personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking for items such as a life jacket or hand soap. Clarification 2: Instruction includes asking for help with tasks such as fixing a seat belt and crossing the street. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CEH.1.1 | Identify ways the community encourages a healthy environment. Examples: Example: Pedestrian bridges, crosswalks, crossing guards, law enforcement. |
| HE.1.CEH.1.2 | Understand ways to prevent common communicable diseases in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on personal hygiene to include washing hands, covering mouth to cough and sneeze, and not sharing food or utensils. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CEH.2.1 | Recognize health consequences for not following rules. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes potential negative consequences such as injuries, arguments, and hurt feelings. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CEH.3.1 | Identify ways in the community to prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, booster seat installation, swimming programs, etc. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CEH.4.1 | Help others to make positive health choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes following rules. Clarification 2: Instruction includes selecting healthy foods. Clarification 3: Instruction includes participating in physical activities. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CH.1.1 | Determine the meaning of warning labels and signs on hazardous products and places. Examples: Example: Hazardous products may include medication bottles, alcohol, and other substances; hazardous places may include no-entry zones or hot stoves. Example: Warning labels and signs include poison symbol, universal symbols for “No” and “Do not touch,” and crosswalk signals. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CH.3.1 | List healthy and unhealthy choices for personal health and safety. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes wearing a helmet. Clarification 2: Instruction includes limiting screen time and choosing physical activity. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.1.CH.4.1 | Discuss ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking to speak to a trusted adult when help is needed. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking out the school nurse to help with a health-related problem. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.R.1.1 | Identify the benefits of showing kindness and treating others with respect. |
| HE.2.R.1.2 | Identify what a conflict is and how disagreements can happen. |
| HE.2.R.1.3 | Explain the importance of being truthful. |
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| HE.2.R.2.1 | Identify ways to make positive contributions to the wellbeing of the school and the community. |
| HE.2.R.2.2 | Identify personal goals and strategies to achieve those goals. |
| HE.2.R.2.3 | Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and listening skills. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes paying attention, making eye contact, asking for help, etc. |
| HE.2.R.2.4 | Identify personal strengths and areas for improvement. |
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| HE.2.R.3.1 | Identify ways to benefit the school and the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes conservation, recycling, being a classroom helper, and volunteering. |
| HE.2.R.3.2 | Identify characteristics of a community leader. |
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| HE.2.R.4.1 | Identify strategies to work together to solve problems. |
| HE.2.R.4.2 | Identify how disagreements can be settled using conflict resolution skills. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.PHC.1.1 | Discuss how healthy behaviors affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes eating breakfast, playing safely on the playground, wearing a helmet on a bike, and participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity. |
| HE.2.PHC.1.2 | Describe ways you can prevent personal injuries. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as water safety, pedestrian safety, and bicycle safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing abusive behaviors. |
| HE.2.PHC.1.3 | Recognize the locations and functions of major human organs. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the functions of the heart, lungs, and muscles in relation to cardiovascular health. |
| HE.2.PHC.1.4 | Select trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes individuals such as family members, educators, and first responders. Clarification 2: Instruction includes identifying who to report suspicious internet behavior to. |
| HE.2.PHC.1.5 | Recognize healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes seeking a safe environment and seeking help. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing safe websites to visit and television shows to watch. |
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| HE.2.PHC.2.1 | Describe how outside influences, family, and friends can influence personal health decisions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes consistent home safety rules. Clarification 2: Instruction includes telling the truth and treating others with respect. |
| HE.2.PHC.2.2 | Describe ways a safe, healthy home environment can promote personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes secured poisonous products and substances. Clarification 2: Instruction includes home safety plan for events such as fires and hurricanes. |
| HE.2.PHC.2.3 | Describe the attributes of a safe and responsible internet user. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes protecting personal information, reporting cyberbullying, and recognizing inappropriate content/contact. Clarification 2: Instruction includes limiting screen time to avoid health risks to vision, sleep quality, and mental health. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.PHC.3.1 | Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes determining when a friend is in trouble. Clarification 2: Instruction includes choosing safe environments and safe adults to trust. |
| HE.2.PHC.3.2 | List healthy options to health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as wearing a bicycle helmet or water flotation devices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes peer cooperation and communication. |
| HE.2.PHC.3.3 | Compare the consequences of following/not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes staying home when sick vs. attending school and spreading germs that can cause illness in oneself or others. Clarification 2: Instruction includes being physically hurt or hurting others in your environment. |
| HE.2.PHC.3.4 | Discuss short-term and long-term goals and their importance to physical health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the difference between short- and long-term goals. Examples: Example: Daily, weekly, monthly activities that impact physical health. |
| HE.2.PHC.3.5 | Establish a short-term health goal as a class and monitor progress toward achieving the goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: To monitor progress, examples include observation, charting, etc. Examples: Example: Washing hands after using bathroom and before meals, walking quietly in line, raising your hand, etc. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.PHC.4.1 | Demonstrate appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes talking to a trusted adult and/or parent. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking safety and running for help. Clarification 3: Instruction includes asking for help with safety items, e.g., a life jacket, hand soap, buckling a seat belt, crossing the street, etc |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CEH.1.1 | Identify how healthy behaviors affect the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practicing healthy hygiene to prevent spread of disease. |
| HE.2.CEH.1.2 | Describe ways to prevent common communicable diseases in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on personal hygiene to include washing hands, covering mouth to cough and sneeze, and not sharing food or utensils. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CEH.2.1 | Explain the ways that rules make the classroom, school, and community safer. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Discussion includes rules such as walking instead of running, waiting your turn, and following traffic and water safety laws. |
| HE.2.CEH.2.2 | Describe how the school and community influence health behaviors of children. Examples: Example: Nutrition in school lunches, community gardens, recycling, school health fairs. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CEH.3.1 | Describe ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, swimming programs, etc. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CEH.4.1 | Support peers when making positive health choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes using a buddy system and helping others. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing trusted adults as a resource. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CH.1.1 | Understand the meaning of warning labels and signs on hazardous products. Examples: Example: Hazardous products may include medication bottles, alcohol, and other substances; hazardous places may include no-entry zones, hazardous waste zones, and hot stoves. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CH.3.1 | Describe healthy and unhealthy choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes limiting screen time, including television, safe websites and video games, to less than two hours per day. Clarification 2: Instruction includes nutritional food choices instead of unhealthy food in the cafeteria. Clarification 3: Instruction includes the benefits of adequate water consumption. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.2.CH.4.1 | Practice ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking to speak to a trusted adult when help is needed. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking out the school nurse to help with a health-related problem. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.R.1.1 | Identify skills needed when working with others. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes listening, cooperating, taking turns, and compromise. |
| HE.3.R.1.2 | Identify ways to display trustworthiness. |
| HE.3.R.1.3 | Discuss ways to be loyal to friends and family. |
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| HE.3.R.2.1 | Categorize resources used to achieve a personal goal. |
| HE.3.R.2.2 | Identify ways in which my decisions affect others. |
| HE.3.R.2.3 | Describe positive ways to deal with failure and learn from challenges. |
| HE.3.R.2.4 | Discuss how skills can be improved through hard work and perseverance. |
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| HE.3.R.3.1 | Identify leadership opportunities within the school and the community. |
| HE.3.R.3.2 | Identify opportunities to volunteer or serve others in the school or community. |
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| HE.3.R.4.1 | Explain the importance of always taking ownership for personal actions. |
| HE.3.R.4.2 | Identify different solutions and potential outcomes when problems arise. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.PHC.1.1 | Describe healthy behaviors that affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes preventing the spread of germs. Examples: Example: Covering mouth during a cough/sneeze, washing hands before eating and after using the bathroom, performing daily physical activity, never using others’ hair/toothbrushes, exercising regularly, avoiding junk food, and avoiding tobacco and alcohol products. |
| HE.3.PHC.1.2 | Apply ways you can prevent personal injuries. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as water safety, pedestrian safety, fire safety, gun safety, and bicycle safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing abusive behaviors (personal safety). |
| HE.3.PHC.1.3 | Recognize that body parts and organs work together to form human body systems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Body systems include the circulatory system, digestive system, nervous system, reproductive system, and other body systems. |
| HE.3.PHC.1.4 | Discuss behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on following rules and personal hygiene. Examples: Example: Swimming with a buddy and following playground rules. |
| HE.3.PHC.1.5 | Demonstrate health behaviors to maintain or improve personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes following rules and listening to trusted adults. Clarification 2: Instruction includes exercising, eating healthy foods and staying hydrated. |
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| HE.3.PHC.2.1 | Describe how outside influences, family, and friends can influence health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes family beliefs and traditions. Clarification 2: Instruction includes friends’ beliefs and traditions. |
| HE.3.PHC.2.2 | Identify what the school and community do to support personal health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes nutrition in school lunches and school and community gardens. Clarification 2: Instruction includes safety drills including fire, weather, and lock-down drills in the school. |
| HE.3.PHC.2.3 | Understand the positive and negative impacts technology may have on health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction for positive impacts includes calling 911 when help is needed, medical advances, telehealth, and interacting with peers online in a healthy way. Clarification 2: Instruction for negative impacts includes excess screen time (over two hours per day), overuse of cell phones and computers, and overuse of video games. |
| HE.3.PHC.2.4 | Identify appropriate and inappropriate uses of the internet and communicating with others through technology. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction for appropriate uses includes completing homework and visiting safe websites with a parent or trusted adult. Clarification 2: Instruction for inappropriate uses includes interacting with unknown users, cyberbullying, and visiting unsafe websites. |
| HE.3.PHC.2.5 | Identify types of cyberbullying. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else online. Clarification 2: Instruction includes sharing personal or private information about someone else. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.PHC.3.1 | Explain when assistance is needed when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes when to reach out to an appropriate health helper, when to call 911, and to whom fears of personal safety or health issues should be reported. |
| HE.3.PHC.3.2 | Recognize healthy options when making decisions for yourself that avoid or reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes oral hygiene and going to the doctor. Clarification 2: Instruction includes eating healthy foods and participating in physical activity. |
| HE.3.PHC.3.3 | Discuss the potential short-term personal impact of each option when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes benefits of personal hygiene, such as preventing illness and disease. |
| HE.3.PHC.3.4 | Select a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes tracking daily physical activity or limiting media use. |
| HE.3.PHC.3.5 | Discuss healthy options to health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes choosing healthy foods. Clarification 2: Instruction includes choosing safe environments and safe adults to trust. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.PHC.4.1 | Practice appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes talking to a trusted adult and/or parent. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking safety and running for help. Clarification 3: Instruction includes asking for help with safety items, e.g., a life jacket, hand soap, buckling a seat belt, crossing the street, etc. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.CEH.1.1 | Relate how healthy behaviors impact the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practicing good hygiene. Clarification 2: Instruction includes working well with others. |
| HE.3.CEH.1.2 | Understand common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes diabetes, asthma, and food allergies. |
| HE.3.CEH.1.3 | Identify the impact of internet and social media in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes positive impact such as spreading awareness and information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes negative impact such as sharing misinformation, cyberbullies, and health risks. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.CEH.2.1 | Identify classroom and school rules that promote health and disease prevention. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Discussion includes rules such as walking instead of running, keeping areas clean, and listening to school personnel. |
| HE.3.CEH.2.2 | Explore how the traditions and customs of the school and community influence health behavior of children. Examples: Example: School health fundraisers and health fairs, school assemblies, community gardens. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.CEH.3.1 | Explore ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, swimming programs, etc. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.CEH.4.1 | Encourage positive behaviors and healthy choices by others. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes selecting healthy food choices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes following playground rules. |
| BENCHMARK CODE | BENCHMARK |
| HE.3.CH.1.1 | Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include internet, brochures, books, and local organizations such as the Department of Health. |
| HE.3.CH.1.2 | Describe why it is important to seek health care. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes prevention of tooth decay, hearing exams to assess hearing, and eye exams to assess vision. |
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| HE.3.CH.2.1 | Describe how the internet and various media/social media outlets influence the selection of health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes food packaging, television ads, billboards, and social media. |
| HE.3.CH.2.2 | Identify resources that could assist in achieving personal health goals. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Examples include family support, organized sports, school walking club, teachers, school counselors, etc. |
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| HE.3.CH.3.1 | Describe criteria for selecting health information, resources, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes reading food labels. Clarification 2: Instruction includes finding valid and reputable websites, books, and brochures. |
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| HE.3.CH.4.1 | Describe ways to encourage healthy school environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in healthy clubs or activities at school. Clarification 2: Instruction includes taking safe routes to school. |
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| HE.4.R.1.1 | Consider the perspectives of others. |
| HE.4.R.1.2 | Identify the benefits of treating others with respect. |
| HE.4.R.1.3 | Predict the potential outcomes of repeating and/or sharing information that is not true. |
| HE.4.R.1.4 | Identify strategies to help persevere in difficult situations. |
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| HE.4.R.2.1 | Discuss ways to take responsibility for one’s actions. |
| HE.4.R.2.2 | Identify the value of making healthy choices for personal well-being. |
| HE.4.R.2.3 | Create a personal goal and track progress toward achievement. |
| HE.4.R.2.4 | Explain how attitudes and thoughts can influence your behavior. |
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| HE.4.R.3.1 | Identify opportunities to actively participate as a responsible citizen in the school and the local community. |
| HE.4.R.3.2 | Model serving or helping others in the school or community. |
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| HE.4.R.4.1 | Describe how perseverance may help overcome obstacles. |
| HE.4.R.4.2 | Describe strategies to resolve conflicts. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes compromise, agreeing to disagree, and civil discourse. |
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| HE.4.PHC.1.1 | Identify examples of mental and physical health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Mental health: examples include healthy coping skills; self-regulating and self-soothing behaviors; ability to communicate needs, control impulses, and focus/refocusing on current tasks; showing empathy and compassion; listening skills, etc. Clarification 2: Physical health: examples include healthy eating behaviors; performing daily physical activity; personal hygiene care; and avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. |
| HE.4.PHC.1.2 | Analyze ways you can prevent personal injuries. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as water safety, pedestrian safety, fire safety, gun safety, and bicycle safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing abusive behaviors (personal safety). |
| HE.4.PHC.1.3 | Identify the human body parts and organs that work together to form healthy body systems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Body systems include the circulatory system, digestive system, nervous system, reproductive system, and other body systems. |
| HE.4.PHC.1.4 | Identify the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes choosing healthy foods for optimal growth and development. Clarification 2: Instruction includes participating in daily physical activity to prevent heart disease and obesity. Clarification 3: Instruction includes wearing safety gear, including a bike helmet, to prevent injuries. Clarification 4: Instruction includes washing hands for disease prevention. |
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| HE.4.PHC.2.1 | Identify how outside influences, including family and friends, affect health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes recognizing and avoiding bullying behaviors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes choosing to avoid tobacco products or inhalants. |
| HE.4.PHC.2.2 | Describe ways a safe, healthy school environment can influence personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety patrols, school crossing guards, and safety resource officers. Clarification 2: Instruction includes hand washing and practicing good hygiene. Clarification 3: Instruction includes daily physical activity as part of the school day. |
| HE.4.PHC.2.3 | Discuss how technology influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the negative impacts of cyberbullying. Clarification 2: Instruction includes limiting screen time to less than two hours per day to prevent health risks such as sleep difficulties, mood problems, physical inactivity, and decreased learning opportunities. |
| HE.4.PHC.2.4 | Discuss how media/social media influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes marketing strategies to appeal to specific audiences. Clarification 2: Instruction includes negative effects on mental health, such as social media addiction. Examples: Example: Anti-drug campaigns. |
| HE.4.PHC.2.5 | Identify health-related consequences of inappropriate and/or excessive internet use. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Health-related consequences include decreased mental well-being, loss of vision, sleep difficulties, and decreased physical activity leading to obesity. Clarification 2: Health-related consequences include musculoskeletal conditions caused by prolonged use of devices. |
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| HE.4.PHC.3.1 | Examine when assistance is needed to make a health-related decision. |
| HE.4.PHC.3.2 | Apply healthy options when making decisions to maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes avoiding substances, such as tobacco and alcohol. Clarification 2: Instruction includes practicing general personal hygiene to prevent disease and illness. |
| HE.4.PHC.3.3 | Predict the potential short-term impact of each option on self and others when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in physical activity and effect on cardiovascular and physical health. Clarification 2: Instruction includes practicing proper hygiene and nutrition and effect on quality of life. |
| HE.4.PHC.3.4 | Create a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement. Examples: Example: Eating healthy, balanced meals and/or participating in daily physical activity. |
| HE.4.PHC.3.5 | Choose healthy options to health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes responding to an injury; connecting with the appropriate health helper, including school counselors (mental health issues); peer pressure/healthy friendships, etc. |
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| HE.4.PHC.4.1 | Select appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes talking to a trusted adult and/or parent. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking safety and running for help. Clarification 3: Instruction includes asking for help with safety items, e.g., a life jacket, hand soap. Examples: Example: Talking to a trusted adult, assertiveness skills. |
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| HE.4.CEH.1.1 | Investigate how healthy and unhealthy behaviors impact the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practicing good hygiene to prevent illness. Clarification 2: Instruction includes disadvantages of not following community/school rules. |
| HE.4.CEH.1.2 | Recognize common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes diabetes, asthma, and food allergies. |
| HE.4.CEH.1.3 | Discuss the impact of internet and social media in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes positive impact such as spreading awareness and information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes negative impacts such as sharing misinformation, human trafficking, cyberbullies, permanence of social media posts, and social media addiction. |
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| HE.4.CEH.2.1 | Recognize types of school rules and community laws that promote health and disease prevention. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Discussion includes laws such as wearing a seat belt or helmet, clean indoor-air laws, and speed limits. |
| HE.4.CEH.2.2 | Explain the important roles that school and community play in health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes disaster preparedness. Clarification 2: Instruction includes school and community recycling programs and organizations. |
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| HE.4.CEH.3.1 | Compare community resources available to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, swimming programs, etc. |
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| HE.4.CEH.4.1 | Assist others to make positive health choices in their school and community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes modeling safe behaviors, including water safety and street safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes reporting bullying and unsafe behaviors. |
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| HE.4.CH.1.1 | Describe characteristics of valid health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Characteristics include professional certification, proper labeling, complete directions for use, source, and date. Clarification 2: Instruction includes trusted adults, reliable and trustworthy websites, etc. |
| HE.4.CH.1.2 | Distinguish differences among various healthcare providers, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes different types of healthcare providers and emergency medical services. Clarification 2: Instruction includes prescription versus non-prescription drugs. |
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| HE.4.CH.2.1 | Recognize ways health messages and communication techniques can be targeted for different audiences through internet and social media sources. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes music, television ads, billboards, and social media. |
| HE.4.CH.2.2 | Categorize resources that could assist in achieving a small group personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include family, school personnel, community service providers, and resource guides. |
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| HE.4.CH.3.1 | Construct criteria for selecting health resources, products, services, and reputable technologies. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes asking if resources are safe, affordable, reliable, and available. |
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| HE.4.CH.4.1 | Choose ways to promote healthy school environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in healthy clubs or activities at school. Clarification 2: Instruction includes taking safe routes to school. |
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| HE.5.R.1.1 | Discuss how to work together to achieve a positive outcome. |
| HE.5.R.1.2 | Identify how to communicate effectively within a group. |
| HE.5.R.1.3 | Describe the importance of considering the perspective of others when communicating. |
| HE.5.R.1.4 | Discuss ways that honesty and trustworthiness can lead to school and career success. |
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| HE.5.R.2.1 | Describe the importance of having the courage to the do the right thing even when it is difficult. |
| HE.5.R.2.2 | Discuss how responsible decision-making affects personal well-being. |
| HE.5.R.2.3 | Select reliable resources that would assist in achieving a personal goal. |
| HE.5.R.2.4 | Devise an individual goal (short or long term) to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal practice. |
| HE.5.R.2.5 | Explain how attitudes and thoughts can influence your behavior and affect others. |
| HE.5.R.2.6 | Demonstrate how to positively respond to external influences. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media, television, music, and peers. |
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| HE.5.R.3.1 | Identify leadership skills that encourage and empower others. |
| HE.5.R.3.2 | Identify ways to participate in decision-making in the school or community. |
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| HE.5.R.4.1 | Apply organizational strategies that support completing multiple tasks efficiently. |
| HE.5.R.4.2 | Identify successful strategies for adjusting to change and setbacks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes coping, grit, and new learning opportunities. |
| HE.5.R.4.3 | Compare conflict resolution methods to identify potential solutions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Methods include negotiation, give and take, and analyze pros and cons. |
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| HE.5.PHC.1.1 | Demonstrate the physical and mental dimensions of health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the importance of getting along with others and respecting personal space. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the importance of feeling safe. |
| HE.5.PHC.1.2 | Explain ways you can prevent personal injuries. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices such as water safety, pedestrian safety, fire safety, gun safety, and bicycle safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing abusive behaviors (personal safety). |
| HE.5.PHC.1.3 | Explain how human body parts and organs work together in healthy body systems, including the endocrine and reproductive systems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the digestive and circulatory systems receiving and distributing nutrients to provide energy. Clarification 2: Instruction includes endocrine glands influencing the reproductive system. Clarification 3: Instruction includes respiratory system providing oxygen to other body systems. |
| HE.5.PHC.1.4 | Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes avoiding substances, including alcohol and tobacco, to prevent disease. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the positive impact of healthy relationships. Clarification 3: Instruction includes safe behaviors, including wearing a bike helmet or seatbelt to prevent injuries. |
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| HE.5.PHC.2.1 | Explain how outside influences, including family and friends, affect health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes recognizing and avoiding bullying behaviors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes choosing to avoid tobacco products or inhalants. Clarification 3: Instruction includes media, family system, culture, peers, friends, and community. |
| HE.5.PHC.2.2 | Explain ways a safe, healthy home and school environment promote personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes having a smoke-free home environment. Clarification 2: Instruction includes having a clean/orderly environment with rules. |
| HE.5.PHC.2.3 | Explain how technology influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the negative impacts of cyberbullying. Clarification 2: Instruction includes overuse of screen time leading to mental health challenges, including addiction. |
| HE.5.PHC.2.4 | Discuss how media/social media influences personal and family health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes marketing strategies to appeal to specific audiences. Clarification 2: Instruction includes social media impact on body image, self-esteem, and self-image. Examples: Example: Nutrition/diet trends. |
| HE.5.PHC.2.5 | Identify the legal and social consequences of inappropriate social media use. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Legal consequences includes disciplinary action by the school or criminal penalties. Clarification 2: Social consequences include social isolation, decline in academic performance, loss of friendships, and decreased social skills. |
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| HE.5.PHC.3.1 | Analyze when assistance is needed when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safety practices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes addressing peer relationships and dangerous events. |
| HE.5.PHC.3.2 | Select a healthy option when making decisions for yourself to maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes reporting bullying and resolving conflicts with peers. Clarification 2: Instruction includes using safety equipment and gear. |
| HE.5.PHC.3.3 | Compare the potential short-term impact of each option on self and others when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the impact of substance use, including alcohol or tobacco. Clarification 2: Instruction includes practicing positive character traits and behavior to form relationships. |
| HE.5.PHC.3.4 | Develop a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement. |
| HE.5.PHC.3.5 | Summarize healthy options to health-related issues or problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes discussion with a trusted adult, parent, or school counselor. |
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| HE.5.PHC.4.1 | Evaluate appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes talking to a trusted adult and/or parent. Clarification 2: Instruction includes seeking safety and running for help. Clarification 3: Instruction includes asking for help with safety items, e.g., a life jacket, hand soap. |
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| HE.5.CEH.1.1 | Compare and contrast how healthy and unhealthy behaviors impact the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes outcomes of not following school and community rules. |
| HE.5.CEH.1.2 | Explain common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes diabetes, asthma, and food allergies. |
| HE.5.CEH.1.3 | Explain how community health can be impacted by internet and social media in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes spreading awareness and information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes public service announcements on health. |
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| HE.5.CEH.2.1 | Give examples of school and public health policies that influence health promotion and disease prevention. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Examples include seat belt laws, helmet laws, emergency drills, and school bus policies. |
| HE.5.CEH.2.2 | Investigate influences that change health beliefs and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes substance use behaviors being portrayed in the media. Clarification 2: Instruction includes social media influence. |
| HE.5.CEH.2.3 | Determine how media/social media influences health behaviors and the selection of health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media platforms influencing the selection of products. |
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| HE.5.CEH.3.1 | Research community resources available to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems. Examples: Example: Community/school health fairs, immunizations, swimming programs, etc. |
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| HE.5.CEH.4.1 | Persuade others to make positive health choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practicing negotiation skills. Clarification 2: Instruction includes advocating for a tobacco-free environment. |
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| HE.5.CH.1.1 | Discuss characteristics of valid health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Characteristics include professional certification, proper labeling, complete directions for use, source, and date. |
| HE.5.CH.1.2 | Research resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include technology (phone, television, internet, radio), media, locations (library, health department, pharmacy, hospitals), and items (scale, pedometer). |
| HE.5.CH.1.3 | Recognize appropriate health care products and services in the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes seeking counseling or healthcare for individual needs. |
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| HE.5.CH.2.1 | Identify ways health messages and communication techniques can be targeted for different audiences through internet and social media sources. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes surveys, advertisements, billboards, and social media. |
| HE.5.CH.2.2 | Select reliable resources that would assist in achieving a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include family, school personnel, community service providers, and resource guides. |
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| HE.5.CH.3.1 | Evaluate criteria for selecting health resources, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes determining criteria function, directions for use, competence of providers, and costs. |
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| HE.5.CH.4.1 | Develop a plan as a class to champion healthy school environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in healthy clubs or activities at school. Clarification 2: Instruction includes taking safe routes to school. |
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| HE.68.R.1.1 | Demonstrate the ability to respond with empathy in a variety of contexts and situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying others’ feelings, perspectives, circumstances, experiences, and active listening. |
| HE.68.R.1.2 | Describe the importance of empathy, kindness, honesty and trust in building and sustaining relationships. |
| HE.68.R.1.3 | Identify sources of relational conflicts and healthy approaches to conflict resolutions. |
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| HE.68.R.2.1 | Discuss how character is shaped by attitudes, decisions and actions. |
| HE.68.R.2.2 | Demonstrate responsible decision-making that considers multiple perspectives. |
| HE.68.R.2.3 | Describe the importance of following school and community laws and rules. |
| HE.68.R.2.4 | Monitor progress toward attaining a personal goal. |
| HE.68.R.2.5 | Explain strategies and skills needed to assess progress and maintenance of a challenging personal goal. |
| HE.68.R.2.6 | Describe how personal goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities. |
| HE.68.R.2.7 | Identify how continuous learning leads to personal growth. |
| HE.68.R.2.8 | Identify strategies to manage challenges and setbacks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes time management, setting boundaries, setting realistic goals, and self-care. |
| HE.68.R.2.9 | Identify healthy responses to negative peer pressure. |
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| HE.68.R.3.1 | Discuss ways a leader can build the trust of individuals and groups. |
| HE.68.R.3.2 | Explain and develop ways to apply leadership skills in the school and the community. |
| HE.68.R.3.3 | Identify the importance of volunteerism in positively affecting the community and nation. |
| HE.68.R.3.4 | Identify ways to participate in our constitutional republic through public policy, voting, and leadership positions. |
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| HE.68.R.4.1 | Analyze possible solutions to a problem to determine the best outcome for oneself and others. |
| HE.68.R.4.2 | Develop and apply conflict resolution skills in a variety of situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes coping, grit, and new learning opportunities. |
| HE.68.R.4.3 | Analyze ways to pursue common goals as a part of a team or group. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Methods include negotiation, give and take, and analyze pros and cons. |
| HE.68.R.4.4 | Identify the importance of perseverance when facing difficulty solving a problem. |
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| HE.6.PHC.1.1 | Describe how the physical, mental social, and intellectual dimensions of health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes nutrition, sleep, physical stamina, and hunger. Clarification 2: Instruction includes mental alertness, interpersonal conflicts, mental stress, and solving problems. |
| HE.6.PHC.1.2 | Identify personal health problems and concerns common to adolescents including reproductive development. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes acne, eating disorders, depression, suicidal ideations, and puberty. |
| HE.6.PHC.1.3 | Examine the importance of assuming responsibility for personal reproductive health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes hygiene, physical activity, nutrition, and medical/dental checkups. Clarification 2: Instruction includes resisting peer pressure and developing healthy relationships. |
| HE.6.PHC.1.4 | Describe situations when professional health services may be required. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes injuries, influenza, and depression. Clarification 2: Instruction includes substance use and abuse, child abuse, and domestic violence. |
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| HE.6.PHC.2.1 | Analyze how media/social media influences personal and peer thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes marketing strategies to appeal to specific audiences. Clarification 2: Instruction includes misconception of “friends” online versus friendship in real life. Clarification 3: Instruction includes the awareness of artificial intelligence algorithms online. Examples: Example: Social media dependence affecting friendships and body image influence. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.2 | Identify environmental factors that affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes contaminated food, air, and water quality. Clarification 2: Instruction includes availability of sidewalks and road hazards. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.3 | Examine how friends and peers influence the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes media, social media, and spreading rumors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes conflict resolution skills. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.4 | Examine how family and culture influence the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes family rules, family diet, and physical activity. Clarification 2: Instruction includes how family relationships impact behaviors. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.5 | Recognize how personal health choices can affect hereditary risk factors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes healthy choices that reduce the impact of hereditary diseases such as heart disease or cancers, allergies, and asthma. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.6 | Determine how social norms may impact healthy and unhealthy behavior. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how social norms can function as unspoken rules or guidelines for behavior and expected behavior, such as substance use, bullying, and participating in extracurricular activities. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.7 | Explain how body systems are impacted by hereditary factors and infectious diseases. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes hereditary diseases, such as sickle cell disease, cancer, and heart disease. Clarification 2: Instruction includes how medical conditions, such as asthma, allergies, diabetes, and Cystic Fibrosis, are exacerbated by infectious diseases. |
| HE.6.PHC.2.8 | Describe legal and ethical behaviors when using the internet and social media. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes respecting privacy, being honest, and sharing appropriate information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing and reporting signs of human trafficking and cyberbullying. |
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| HE.6.PHC.3.1 | Distinguish between the need for individual or collaborative decision making. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes considering the severity of the situation and personal skills. Clarification 2: Instruction includes considering when someone is a danger to self or others. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.2 | Specify the potential outcomes of each option when making a personal health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical, social, financial, and legal consequences. Clarification 2: Instruction includes emergency preparedness. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.3 | Predict the potential outcomes of a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes negative outcomes of not following safety guidelines and being inactive. Clarification 2: Instruction includes positive outcomes of eating healthy and being physically active. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.4 | Use various methods to measure personal health status. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes body composition, surveys, heart-rate monitors, pedometer, blood pressure cuff, and other clinical measurements. Clarification 2: Instruction includes stress-management techniques, such as breathing exercises and journaling. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.5 | Develop an individual goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity, eating habits, and personal hygiene. Clarification 2: Instruction includes safety habits, internet use/safety, and bullying-prevention strategies. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.6 | Determine strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes journaling, daily checklists, identify peer supports, injury-prevention measures, and use of health-related apps. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.7 | Monitor progress toward attaining a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes use of checklists, logs, pedometers, websites, and health monitoring apps. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.8 | Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy/risky behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes disease related to poor nutrition and inactivity. Clarification 2: Instruction includes cancer and chronic lung disease related to tobacco use. Clarification 3: Instruction includes injuries caused from failure to follow safety guidelines. |
| HE.6.PHC.3.9 | Explore healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes internal influences, such as hygiene, sleep, and fitness. Clarification 2: Instruction includes external influences, such as healthy relationship skills, influences of advertising, social media, and internet safety. Clarification 3: Instruction includes abstaining from risky behaviors. |
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| HE.6.PHC.4.1 | Use valid and reliable information to request access to health products, services, or environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes requesting sidewalks and accessing recreational areas. |
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| HE.6.CEH.1.1 | Describe how the physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of community health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes connections between healthy behaviors and healthy outcomes. Examples: Example: Nutrition leading to increased mental alertness, interpersonal conflicts leading to mental stress. |
| HE.6.CEH.1.2 | Identify community health problems and concerns common to adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Community health problems may include teen dating violence and teen pregnancy. Clarification 2: Instruction may include human trafficking awareness and prevention. |
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| HE.6.CEH.2.1 | Identify the impact of health information conveyed to students by the school and community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes first-aid education and safety education in school and how it benefits students. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the impact of substance use prevention programs. |
| HE.6.CEH.2.2 | Investigate changes to societal norms and how they influence health beliefs and behaviors. Examples: Example: Location sharing, creation of designated smoking areas, increased access to community-based activities. |
| HE.6.CEH.2.3 | Examine how media/social media influences peer and community health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media platforms influencing health behaviors and practices. Examples: Example: Music lyrics that encourage risky health behaviors, vaping and tobacco ads targeting younger populations, body image influence on social media. |
| HE.6.CEH.2.4 | Propose ways that technology can influence peer and community health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how internet and social media apps influence nutrition and physical activity. |
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| HE.6.CEH.3.1 | Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practicing responsible behavior such as treating others with respect. Examples: Example: Saying no to drugs, eating a balanced diet over fast food, exercising daily. |
| HE.6.CEH.3.2 | Specify the potential outcomes of each option when making a community health-related decision. Examples: Example: Building trails, opening/closing community centers, opportunities to access fresh fruits/vegetables. |
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| HE.6.CEH.4.1 | Describe how the community can influence and support others to make positive health choices. Examples: Example: Bike trails, recreational areas, health-related community events. |
| HE.6.CEH.4.2 | State a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information. Examples: Example: Health-enhancing positions may include tobacco and vaping laws, zero-tolerance policies, and bullying rules. |
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| HE.6.CH.1.1 | Examine how appropriate health care can promote personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes following recommended visits to health care providers, such as pediatrician and dentist. |
| HE.6.CH.1.2 | Investigate a variety of technologies to gather health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Technologies include a thermometer, scale, blood pressure machine, and other health related tools. Clarification 2: Technologies may include television, internet, social media, and health-related apps. |
| HE.6.CH.1.3 | Identify available resources and services needed to attain a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include technology (phone, television, internet, radio), media, locations (library, health department, pharmacy, hospitals), and items (scale, pedometer). |
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| HE.6.CH.2.1 | Illustrate ways health messages and communication techniques can be targeted for different audiences through internet and social media sources. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how social media platforms use algorithms to target specific audiences to promote products or services. |
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| HE.6.CH.3.1 | Examine the validity of health information and determine the cost benefit of health products and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes determining criteria function, directions for use, competence of providers, and costs. |
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| HE.6.CH.4.1 | Identify ways students can request access to appropriate resources and services that promote healthy living. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes contacting a school counselor, school nurse, and school personnel for medical care. |
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| HE.7.PHC.1.1 | Explain how physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes mental stress that may arise from exam season at school. Clarification 2: Instruction includes mental stress leading to physical illness. Clarification 3: Instruction includes peer relationship conflict leading to decreased self-esteem. |
| HE.7.PHC.1.2 | Classify infectious diseases and their modes of transmission to the human body. Examples: Example: Malaria and Zika through mosquitoes, transmission of viruses through sharing of personal items, human immunodeficiency virus. |
| HE.7.PHC.1.3 | Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal and reproductive health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity, eating habits, and adequate sleep. Clarification 2: Instruction includes proper care of reproductive organs/systems. |
| HE.7.PHC.1.4 | Differentiate among professional health services that may be required. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes difference between dentist vs. orthodontist. Clarification 2: Instruction includes difference between family physician vs. specialist. |
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| HE.7.PHC.2.1 | Interpret the potential impact of media/social media on health behaviors, personal thoughts, and feelings. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media influence, such as targeted ads, “influencers,” challenges, and trends. Clarification 2: Instruction includes misconception of “friends” online versus friendship in real life. Clarification 3: Instruction includes the permanence of what a person posts online, and how it may affect them throughout life. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.2 | Analyze how environmental factors affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safe food handling practices to avoid foodborne illnesses. Clarification 2: Instruction includes appropriate home heating and cooling, air, and water quality. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.3 | Analyze how friends and peers influence the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how friends and peers can influence self-confidence, behaviors, and relationships. Examples: Example: Teen dating violence and abuse. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.4 | Analyze how family and cultural changes influence the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes family communication behaviors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes smoking in home and alcohol consumption by family members. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.5 | Describe how personal health choices can affect hereditary risk factors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes healthy choices that reduce the impact of hereditary diseases such as sickle cell disease, diabetes, and acne. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.6 | Analyze personal beliefs as they relate to health practices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes weight management through physical activity. Clarification 2: Instruction includes disease prevention through hand washing. Clarification 3: Instruction includes knowing when sharing personal information is safe and secure. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.7 | Explain the influence of personal values, attitudes, and beliefs about individual health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how a healthy level of self-respect deters unhealthy choices and behaviors. |
| HE.7.PHC.2.8 | Describe safe and legal practices when participating in online communities. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes online communities such as discussion groups, blogs, and social networking websites. Clarification 2: Instruction includes reporting unsafe activity, reporting dangerous or unwanted activity, reporting cyberbullying, and limiting screen time for personal health. |
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| HE.7.PHC.3.1 | Predict when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process. Examples: Example: Riding in a vehicle with underage drivers, drug use, determining whether a relationship is healthy or not. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.2 | Select healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision. Examples: Example: Prescription drug use, using safety equipment, selecting nutritious food, internet safety, managing stress. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.3 | Determine when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying healthy peer groups and trusted adults. Clarification 2: Instruction includes identifying when to reach out for help. Examples: Example: Reaching a fork in the road. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.4 | Predict the short and long-term consequences of engaging in health-risk behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes risky behaviors such as driving under the influence. Clarification 2: Instruction includes poor health maintenance such as lack of exercise and poor diet. Clarification 3: Instruction includes consequences of teenage pregnancy. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.5 | Devise an individual goal (short or long term) to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participation in organized activities/sports. Clarification 2: Instruction includes safety habits, internet use and safety, and conflict resolution. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.6 | Explain strategies and skills needed to assess progress and maintenance of a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes journaling, daily checklists, and rewarding milestones. Clarification 2: Instruction includes use of pedometers, monitoring healthy food intake, and identification of groups for support. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.7 | Compare and contrast the effects of healthy and unhealthy behaviors on personal health. Examples: Example: Smoking vs. nonsmoking, fast food vs. well-balanced diet. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.8 | Describe ways one can reduce or prevent injuries and adolescent health problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes helmet use, seat belt use, pedestrian safety, unsupervised handling of firearms, and proper use of over-the-counter medications. |
| HE.7.PHC.3.9 | Practice behaviors that will maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks, including reproductive health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes refusal skills, problem solving, and engaging in respectful relationships. Clarification 2: Instruction includes engaging or reengaging abstinence. |
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| HE.7.PHC.4.1 | Articulate ways to request access to healthy products, services, and environments. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes appropriate communication to a trusted adult that products or services are needed. Examples: Example: Accessing first aid, band-aids, hygiene products, counseling services, smoke free environments, healthy food options. |
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| HE.7.CEH.1.1 | Investigate how the physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of community health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes connections between healthy behaviors and healthy outcomes. Examples: Example: Nutrition leading to increased mental alertness, interpersonal conflicts leading to mental stress. |
| HE.7.CEH.1.2 | Describe community health problems and concerns common to adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes community health problems may include teen dating violence and teen pregnancy. Clarification 2: Instruction includes human trafficking awareness and prevention. |
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| HE.7.CEH.2.1 | Examine how the school and community may influence the health behaviors of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes rules and policies enforced by the school and community that may lead to better health outcomes. Examples: Example: Safety drills and education, digital devices policies, food choices. |
| HE.7.CEH.2.2 | Evaluate how changes in social norms impact healthy and unhealthy behavior. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of substance abuse, including secondhand smoke or driving/operating under the influence. |
| HE.7.CEH.2.3 | Evaluate how media/social media influences peer and community health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media platforms influencing health behaviors and practices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes permanency of sharing materials online. Examples: Example: Music lyrics that encourage risky health behaviors, vaping and tobacco ads targeting younger populations, body image influence on social media. |
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| HE.7.CEH.3.1 | Describe ways the community can reduce or prevent injuries and adolescent health problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safe practices such as protective gear. Clarification 2: Instruction includes safe practices on the internet such as reporting cyberbullying and practicing safety on social media. Examples: Example: Helmet use, seat belt use, firearm safety, internet safety. |
| HE.7.CEH.3.2 | Explain how injury or illness stemming from unhealthy or risky behaviors impacts the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how increased community illnesses burdens local resources, such as healthcare and workforce. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the impact of death, illness, or injury of a community member. |
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| HE.7.CEH.4.1 | Evaluate how community practices influence the positive health choices of others. Examples: Example: Public service announcements, health forums, guest speakers. |
| HE.7.CEH.4.2 | Articulate a position on a health-related issue and support it with accurate health information. Examples: Example: Health-enhancing positions may include tobacco and vaping laws, zero-tolerance policies, and bullying rules. |
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| HE.7.CH.1.1 | Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes having a health action plan or provider to contact when help is needed. Examples: Example: Asthma action plan, registered dietitian to plan healthy meals, doctor to prescribe medicine. |
| HE.7.CH.1.2 | Evaluate a variety of technologies to gather health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying appropriate technologies under a variety of circumstances. Examples: Example: Technologies may include fitness apps, wearable devices, web resources. |
| HE.7.CH.1.3 | Determine appropriate resources and services needed to attain a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Resources include technology (phone, television, internet, apps), media, locations (library, health department, pharmacy, hospitals), support groups (weight management, running clubs, fitness classes), and items (scale, pedometer). |
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| HE.7.CH.2.1 | Analyze ways consumer health messages can target different audiences through internet and social media sources. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how organizations/companies use a variety of public service announcements, celebrities, social media posts, and platforms. |
| HE.7.CH.2.2 | Analyze how messages from media/social media influence health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes cyberbullying affecting mental well-being. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the compounding influence of “likes” and “comments” on posts and how they activate the reward centers in the brain. Examples: Example: Examples include sports figures promoting fast food and provocative images on media/social media. |
| HE.7.CH.2.3 | Evaluate the influence of technology in locating valid health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes evaluation of a variety of health websites, apps, health devices, and organizations to receive information. |
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| HE.7.CH.3.1 | Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes reviewing a variety of resources including advertisements, health-claim articles, and personal claims. |
| HE.7.CH.3.2 | Compare resources and services needed to attain a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes determining criteria function, directions for use, competence of providers, and costs. |
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| HE.7.CH.4.1 | Articulate ways students can request access to appropriate resources and services that promote healthy living. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how to request support from a school counselor, school nurse, and school personnel for medical care. |
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| HE.8.PHC.1.1 | Analyze how the physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of personal health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the relationship between sleeping and studying for tests. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the relationship between road rage and vehicular crashes. Clarification 3: Instruction includes the relationship between bullying, dating violence, human trafficking and self-esteem. |
| HE.8.PHC.1.2 | Identify major chronic diseases that impact human body systems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes cancer, hypertension and coronary artery disease, asthma, and diabetes. |
| HE.8.PHC.1.3 | Assess the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and abstinence to prevent STIs. Clarification 2: Instruction includes diet, physical activity, hygiene. |
| HE.8.PHC.1.4 | Assess personal health practices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity and sleep habits. Clarification 2: Instruction includes interpersonal skills. Clarification 3: Instruction includes risky behavior and injury prevention. |
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| HE.8.PHC.2.1 | Analyze the influences of media/social media on physical, emotional, and social health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sleep deprivation influencing increased risk of disease, obesity, and chronic health conditions. Clarification 2: Instruction includes too much screen time leading to loss of cognitive capacity, stress management capabilities, and social skills. Examples: Example: Normalization of underage substance use. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.2 | Analyze the influence of personal values, attitudes, and beliefs about individual health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social conformity, desires, and impulses. Clarification 2: Instruction includes how a healthy level of self-respect deters unhealthy choices and behaviors. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.3 | Predict how environmental factors affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes heat index, air, and water quality. Clarification 2: Instruction includes streetlights and signs. Clarification 3: Instruction includes bullying, gangs, and weapons in the community. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.4 | Assess the role of the beliefs of friends and peers on the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes drug-use myths. Clarification 2: Instruction includes perception of healthy body composition. Clarification 3: Instruction includes energy drink myths. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.5 | Assess the role of the beliefs of family and culture on the health of adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of alternative medical care and family religious beliefs on health practices. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.6 | Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors. Examples: Example: Faith-based fasting, diet, rites of passage, exercise. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.7 | Explore how heredity and family history can affect personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes sickle cell disease, heart disease, diabetes, and mental health. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.8 | Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Examples: Example: Body size determining health status, fad diets leading to weight loss. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.9 | Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes weight reduction, cost of healthier food, availability of exercise equipment, and general health. |
| HE.8.PHC.2.10 | Explain the impact of cyberbullying and inappropriate use of social media on personal wellness. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the compounding impact on mental health, such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, social isolation, and susceptibility to human trafficking. |
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| HE.8.PHC.3.1 | Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful prepared plan of action. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes consumption of alcohol, use of marijuana, and prescription drug abuse. Clarification 2: Instruction includes prevention of dating violence. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.2 | Compile the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes consequences related to injury, addiction, and reproductive health. Clarification 2: Instruction includes consequences related to legal, social, and financial ramifications. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.3 | Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes pressure to consume alcohol, self-injury, weight management, and mental-health concerns. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.4 | Evaluate the outcomes of a health-related decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes substance use and abuse outcomes such as addiction and brain damage. Clarification 2: Instruction includes weight management from proper nutrition and exercise. Clarification 3: Instruction includes disease prevention from personal hygiene practices and reproductive health. Clarification 4: Instruction includes injury prevention from safety practices. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.5 | Determine situations when specific professional health services or providers may be required. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes head injuries, infections, depression, human trafficking, and abuse. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.6 | Investigate personal strategies to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes recognize signs and symptoms of depression, accessing resources, avoiding unsafe areas, and healthy relationship skills. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.7 | Design an individual goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity, eating habits, and sleep habits. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.8 | Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity and nutrition modification. Clarification 2: Instruction includes use of health apps. |
| HE.8.PHC.3.9 | Apply healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in various physical activities, setting healthy goals, making healthy food choices, adequate sleep patterns. Clarification 2: Instruction includes fostering healthy relationships, resisting negative peer pressure, and reproductive health practices. Clarification 3: Instruction includes practicing internet safety. Clarification 4: Instruction includes limiting screentime to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal conditions caused by prolonged use of devices. |
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| HE.8.PHC.4.1 | Promote ways to acquire health services, products and or environments based on accurate and truthful information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes advocating for one’s own health, wellbeing, and quality of life. Examples: Example: Safe routes to school, such as lighting, sidewalks, crosswalks, and/or environments. |
| HE.8.PHC.4.2 | Identify strategies to combat cyberbullying and online harassment. Examples: Example: Reporting online suspicious behavior, reporting cyberbullying and harassment, maintaining personal security, identifying human trafficking. |
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| HE.8.CEH.1.1 | Analyze how the physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of community health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes connections between healthy behaviors and healthy outcomes. Examples: Example: Road rage leading to vehicular crashes, bullying impacting self-esteem, interpersonal conflicts leading to mental stress. |
| HE.8.CEH.1.2 | Evaluate community health problems and concerns common to adolescents. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes community health problems may include teen dating violence and teen pregnancy. Clarification 2: Instruction includes human trafficking and cyberbullying awareness/prevention. |
| HE.8.CEH.1.3 | Identify the social determinants of health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes economic stability, education access and quality, healthcare access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. |
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| HE.8.CEH.2.1 | Analyze how the school and community may influence adolescent health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes practices and resources in the school and community that may lead to better health outcomes for adolescents. Examples: Example: Drug abuse education programs, volunteering opportunities, availability of facilities and programs for students. |
| HE.8.CEH.2.2 | Critique school and public health policies that influence health promotion and disease prevention. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes rules and policies enforced by the school and community that may lead to better health outcomes. Examples: Example: Driving laws and sanitation laws. |
| HE.8.CEH.2.3 | Analyze how media/social media influences community health behaviors. Examples: Example: Ads encouraging substance use in youth populations, language on social media and in music/television shows, fashion trends. |
| HE.8.CEH.2.4 | Predict how environmental factors affect community health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of weather, to include hurricanes and tornadoes, on community health and wellbeing. Clarification 2: Instruction includes impact of violence and safety on community health and wellbeing. |
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| HE.8.CEH.3.1 | Investigate community strategies to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes recognizing signs and symptoms of physical or mental illness. Clarification 2: Instruction includes identifying and accessing resources to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems. |
| HE.8.CEH.3.2 | Anticipate how injury or illness stemming from unhealthy or risky behaviors impacts the community. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes death or injury from car crashes and underage drinking/distracted driving. Clarification 2: Instruction includes infections and disease from poor personal health practices. |
| HE.8.CEH.3.3 | Categorize healthy and unhealthy alternatives to community health-related issues or problems. Examples: Example: Health-related issues may include drug use, obesity, teen pregnancy, food deserts. |
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| HE.8.CEH.4.1 | Promote positive health choices with the influence and support of others. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes promotion of sexual abstinence and substance use prevention. |
| HE.8.CEH.4.2 | Justify a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information. Examples: Example: Health-enhancing positions may include abstinence from unhealthy behaviors, legal-age limits, and zero-tolerance policies. |
| HE.8.CEH.4.3 | Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, peers, families, and schools. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes promotion of community initiatives, such as media or prevention campaigns. Clarification 2: Instruction includes participation in school community wellness and organizations. Examples: Example: Media campaigns, posters, performances, public service announcements, School Health Advisory Committee. |
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| HE.8.CH.1.1 | Analyze how appropriate health care can influence personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes going to a medical professional for prevention and treatment of illness. |
| HE.8.CH.1.2 | Compare and contrast a variety of technologies to gather health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying appropriate technologies under a variety of circumstances. Examples: Example: Technologies may include fitness apps, wearable devices, web resources. |
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| HE.8.CH.2.1 | Evaluate ways consumer health messages and communication techniques can be targeted for different audiences. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how organizations/companies use a variety of public service announcements, celebrities, social media posts, and platforms. |
| HE.8.CH.2.2 | Research marketing strategies behind health-related media/social media messages. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying and researching strategies that media companies use to create trends. Examples: Example: Social glorification of substance use, negative body image messaging, and normalization of violence. |
| HE.8.CH.2.3 | Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social marketing for health information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes how technology can positively and negatively influence personal and family health behaviors. |
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| HE.8.CH.3.1 | Analyze the accessibility, validity, and reliability of products and services that enhance home, school, and community health. Examples: Example: Products and services may include prescription medication, health clinics, grocery stores. |
| HE.8.CH.3.2 | Analyze valid and reliable health services and the cost of products. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes reviewing a variety of resources including advertisements, health-claim articles, and personal claims. |
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| HE.8.CH.4.1 | Promote resources that assist in goal setting. Examples: Example: Support groups, running clubs, extracurricular activities. |
| HE.8.CH.4.2 | Recommend a variety of technologies to gather health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes technologies including those in available in a provider setting and technologies including cell phones, the internet, and social media. Examples: Example: Use of a glucose monitor, scale, pedometer, and wearable devices. |
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| HE.912.R.1.1 | Demonstrate effective and respectful communication skills and strategies. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes differing opinions. |
| HE.912.R.1.2 | Demonstrate empathy in a variety of contexts and situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identifying others’ feelings, perspectives, circumstances, experiences, and active listening. |
| HE.912.R.1.3 | Adjust behavior to respect the needs of others. |
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| HE.912.R.2.1 | Describe the importance of leadership skills in the school and the community. |
| HE.912.R.2.2 | Analyze different perspectives to inform responsible decision-making. |
| HE.912.R.2.3 | Formulate a plan to attain a personal goal that addresses strengths, needs, and risks. |
| HE.912.R.2.4 | Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving a personal goal. |
| HE.912.R.2.5 | Formulate an effective long-term plan to include all dimensions of wellness. |
| HE.912.R.2.6 | Analyze how actions and reactions can influence one to respond in different situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes emotions not governing behavior. |
| HE.912.R.2.7 | Evaluate strategies that assist with managing challenges or setbacks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes time management, setting boundaries, setting realistic goals, self-care. |
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| HE.912.R.3.1 | Identify benefits of voting, volunteering, mentoring, and seeking leadership positions. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes student government, school clubs, and volunteering in the community. |
| HE.912.R.3.2 | Analyze ways a leader can inspire confidence and motivate others. |
| HE.912.R.3.3 | Analyze situations and demonstrate strategies to engage in respectful debate. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes group projects and class discussions. |
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| HE.912.R.4.1 | Analyze the importance of character and grit to achieve successful outcomes. |
| HE.912.R.4.2 | Generate and apply alternative solutions when solving problems or resolving conflict. |
| HE.912.R.4.3 | Describe ways to anticipate, avoid or de-escalate conflicts. |
| HE.912.R.4.4 | Identify the importance of perseverance when facing difficulty solving a problem. |
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| HE.912.PHC.1.1 | Evaluate personal health practices and overall health status to include all dimensions of health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes evaluating personal strengths, physical fitness, peer relationships, and personal hygiene. Clarification 2: Instruction includes evaluating disease and injury prevention practices. |
| HE.912.PHC.1.2 | Analyze personal strategies for prevention, detection, and treatment of communicable and chronic diseases Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer, obesity, heart disease, respiratory disease, neurological disease, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and additional diseases. |
| HE.912.PHC.1.3 | Analyze the role of individual responsibility in enhancing health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes food choices, media use, lifestyle choices, stress management, and the individual responsibility for health protection. |
| HE.912.PHC.1.4 | Interpret the significance of interrelationships in mental and physical health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes interrelationships between mental and physical health and substance use and abuse behaviors. Clarification 2: Instruction includes the positive health impact of healthy relationships with friends and family. Clarification 3: Instruction includes correlation between body image and relationships with food. Clarification 4: Instruction includes correlation between stress and anger management and overall health. |
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| HE.912.PHC.2.1 | Evaluate how the influences of social media affect physical and/or mental health, and the ability to make healthy choices. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes body image, dietary habits, cyberbullying, and online support presence. Clarification 2: Instruction includes prevention of human trafficking by maintaining personal security. Clarification 3: Instruction includes identification of predatory behavior on the internet. Clarification 4: Instruction includes how artificial intelligence can impact decision making. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.2 | Evaluate how environment and personal health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes food options within a community. Clarification 2: Instruction includes availability of services such as access to medical care. Clarification 3: Instruction includes environmental factors such as weather, air, and water conditions. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.3 | Analyze how friends and peers influence the health of individuals. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of peer relationships on health decisions and behaviors. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.4 | Analyze how family and culture influence the health of individuals. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of family and culture on health decisions and behaviors. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.5 | Analyze how heredity and family history can impact personal health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes genetic conditions such as substance abuse, family obesity, heart disease, and mental illness. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.6 | Predict how healthy behaviors can affect health status. Examples: Example: Eating healthy foods, safe driving practices, building healthy relationships, health prevention practices, abstinence. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.7 | Evaluate the influence of personal values, attitudes, and beliefs about individual health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes social conformity, self-discipline, and impulse versus delayed gratification. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.8 | Design a social media campaign that positively influences physical and/or mental health. Examples: Example: Memes, public service announcements, reels that promote healthy behavior outcomes. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.9 | Analyze the impacts of technology and social media on popular culture and personal life. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of “influencers” and trends/challenges relating to mental and physical health. Clarification 2: Instruction includes how interactions such as “comments,” “saves,” “likes,” and “shares” on social media can increase the release of dopamine in the brain, similar to other addictive behaviors. |
| HE.912.PHC.2.10 | Demonstrate ethical and responsible use of technology. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes respecting privacy, being honest, and sharing appropriate information. Clarification 2: Instruction includes recognizing and reporting signs of human trafficking, cyberbullying, and other suspicious behavior. |
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| HE.912.PHC.3.1 | Determine the value of applying a thoughtful decision making process in health-related situations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes defining healthy boundaries in relationships. Clarification 2: Instruction includes prevention and decision making in scenarios involving peer pressure, substance use, and sexual activity/family planning. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.2 | Assess whether individual or collaborative decision making is needed to make a healthy decision. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes planning a post-high school career. Clarification 2: Instruction includes considering the severity of the situation and personal skills. Clarification 3: Instruction includes considering when someone is a danger to self or others. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.3 | Identify protective factors that help to mitigate the risks of suicide and mental health disorders. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how protective factors promote positive health and well-being. Examples: Example: Healthy relationships, sense of belonging, support system. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.4 | Recognize the signs, symptoms and how to seek treatment or support for mental health disorders. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes signs and symptoms of mental health disorders, such as dramatic changes to sleeping, eating and behavior patterns, loss of energy, withdrawal from others, increased difficulty with solving problems. Clarification 2: Instruction includes accessing support or referral for treatment through school resources, such as school counselors, school nurses, school psychologists, and school social workers. Examples: Example: Mental health disorders include anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.5 | Recognize the signs and symptoms of suicidal ideations. Examples: Example: Some signs and symptoms may include risky behavior, self-harm, social withdrawal, writing or drawing about death and dying, feelings of hopelessness. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.6 | Identify when and who can provide assistance with suicidal ideations. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes identification of trusted adult and school supports, such as school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker. Clarification 2: Instruction includes identification of suicidal ideation results in immediate reporting of concerns. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.7 | Assess the degree of susceptibility to injury, illness, or death if engaging in unhealthy/risky behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes risks associated with alcohol and substance abuse, distracted driving, negative peer groups. Clarification 2: Instruction includes risk of chronic disease due to lack of hygiene practices. Clarification 3: Instruction includes risk of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and abstinence as the expected standard. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.8 | Formulate a plan to attain a personal health goal that addresses strengths, needs, barriers, and risks. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes using methods such as a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis or SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) goals. Clarification 2: Instruction includes setting realistic expectations for oneself and others. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.9 | Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving a personal health goal. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes stress management such as exercising, coping skills, and talking with a friend or trusted adult. Clarification 2: Instruction includes using health apps, logs, and journals. Clarification 3: Instruction includes finding support when needed. |
| HE.912.PHC.3.10 | Evaluate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve health and reduce health risks, including reproductive health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes lifestyle choices to include substance use and abuse, a healthy diet, physical activity, and abstinence from sexual behavior. Clarification 2: Instruction includes riding in a car with impaired drivers. Clarification 3: Instruction includes seeking and maintaining healthy relationships. Clarification 4: Instruction includes seeking services for physical and mental health when needed. |
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| HE.912.PHC.4.1 | Justify when professional health services or providers may be required. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes addressing a medical emergency, seeking assistance, and calling 911. Clarification 2: Instruction includes physical or mental crisis situations, domestic and/or dating violence, and environmental crisis situations. |
| HE.912.PHC.4.2 | Propose strategies to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes safe driving practices, not entering restricted territory, and additional safety practices. Clarification 2: Instruction includes refusal skills and healthy relationship skills. |
| HE.912.PHC.4.3 | Develop strategies to combat cyberbullying and online harassment. Examples: Example: Social media campaign for mental health, reporting online harassment and suspicious behavior, spreading awareness. |
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| HE.912.CEH.1.1 | Interpret the significance of interrelationships in community health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the benefits of relationships between organizations, such as school systems, health department, law enforcement, local government. |
| HE.912.CEH.1.2 | Utilize current, accurate data/information to formulate a health-enhancing message. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes validating and analyzing data regarding drug use, violence, sexual activity, and teen-driving safety. Examples: Example: Health-enhancing positions may include abstinence from unhealthy behaviors, legal-age limits, and zero-tolerance policies. |
| HE.912.CEH.1.3 | Investigate the social determinants of health in a community. Examples: Example: Neighborhood violence, lack of education, poverty levels, safe and available housing, polluted air and water. |
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| HE.912.CEH.2.1 | Assess how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes impact of required health education and healthcare screenings. Clarification 2: Instruction includes enforcement of “no tolerance” policies related to violence. Clarification 3: Instruction includes automated external defibrillator availability and training. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.2 | Evaluate how public health policies and government regulations can influence health promotion and disease prevention. Examples: Example: Seat belt laws, emergency drills, underage alcohol sales. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.3 | Propose strategies to avoid risks on social media and the internet. Examples: Example: Limiting screen time to under two hours a day to avoid physical health risks, reporting messages from unknown senders, not sharing personal information online. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.4 | Evaluate how environment and community health are interrelated. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes food options with a community. Clarification 2: Instruction includes access to services and healthcare. Clarification 3: Instruction includes disaster preparedness and weather, air, and water conditions. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.5 | Predict how healthy behaviors can affect community health status. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes making positive choices that lead to better health outcomes in the community, including reproductive health. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.6 | Analyze how culture supports and challenges health beliefs, practices, and behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes a variety of cultural dietary patterns, rites of passage, family roles, parenting styles, and ethics. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.7 | Analyze how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes validating and analyzing perceptions of societal norms regarding drug use, violence, sexual activity, and teen-driving safety. Clarification 2: Instruction includes substance use and binge drinking due to peer pressure. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.8 | Evaluate how the social determinants of health impact a community’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how barriers affect community health outcomes. Examples: Example: Low birth rates, higher obesity rates, higher mortality rates, higher rates of disease due to contributing factors. |
| HE.912.CEH.2.9 | Identify computer related laws and analyze their impact on internet safety. Examples: Example: Digital privacy, security, intellectual property, network access, harassment. |
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| HE.912.CEH.3.1 | Analyze community strategies for prevention, detection, and treatment of communicable and chronic diseases. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes health prevention resources. |
| HE.912.CEH.3.2 | Propose community strategies to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems. Examples: Example: Street lighting, road signs, health fairs, car seat fittings. |
| HE.912.CEH.3.3 | Formulate alternatives to community health-related issues or problems. Examples: Example: Obesity, food deserts, lack of prenatal care, drug abuse. |
| HE.912.CEH.3.4 | Appraise the potential short-term and long-term outcomes of alternative solutions to community health-related issues or problems. Examples: Example: Related to lack of prenatal care, a short-term outcome may include more live births and a long-term outcome may include decrease in infant mortality. |
| HE.912.CEH.3.5 | Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision making. Examples: Example: Relationships, finances, environmental factors, educational opportunities. |
| HE.912.CEH.3.6 | Design a campaign promoting health literacy that would result in a variety of positive health and quality of life outcomes. Examples: Example: Brochures, posters, public service announcements that promote healthy behavior outcomes. |
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| HE.912.CEH.4.1 | Develop a resource that influences and supports others in making positive health choices. Examples: Example: Positive health choices may include safe driving practices, cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification, recognizing signs of teen dating violence/abuse. |
| HE.912.CEH.4.2 | Demonstrate leadership skills by advocating for personal, family, and community health. Examples: Example: Writing to government agencies, lead a student group, meet with community leaders. |
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| HE.912.CH.1.1 | Evaluate the relationship between access to health care and health status. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes early detection and treatment of health conditions such as cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, diabetes, asthma, and mental health disorders. |
| HE.912.CH.1.2 | Describe resources or services that facilitate achieving personal health goals. Examples: Example: Healthcare services, fitness centers, healthy food options. |
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| HE.912.CH.2.1 | Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific target audience using various media. Examples: Example: Positive messaging in music, creating a positive social media message. |
| HE.912.CH.2.2 | Evaluate the effect of media/social media on personal and family health. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes television viewing habits, consumer skills, susceptibility to ads of health-related resources, and participation in risky behaviors. |
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| HE.912.CH.3.1 | Authenticate the validity of health information and resources. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes using valid and reliable resources. |
| HE.912.CH.3.2 | Verify the validity of health information, products, and services. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes understanding product-packaging claims, qualifications of service provider, type of service, type of product, product safety, and reliability. |
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| HE.912.CH.4.1 | Justify the use of valid technologies to gather health information. Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes 911 access, and access to health information via the internet or telephone. Clarification 2: Instruction includes medical technology, including X-rays, ultrasounds, mammograms, thermal imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging. |
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