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K–12 Standards

Grades 6, 7, 8

Other Arizona Health sets

Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts

  • 1:

    Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health

    1. PO 1.

      Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

  • 2:

    Understanding Multiple Dimensions of Health

    1. PO 1.

      Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence

  • 3:

    Understanding Personal Health

    1. PO 1.

      Analyze how the environment affects personal health

    2. PO 2.

      Analyze how food provides energy and nutrients for growth and development, that nutrition requirements vary from person to person, and how food intake affects health

    3. PO 3.

      Analyze how physical activity contributes to disease prevention

    4. PO 4.

      Describe how family history can affect personal health

  • 4:

    Understanding Prevention of Injuries and Health Problems

    1. PO 1.

      Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems

  • 5:

    Understanding Use of Health Care

    1. PO 1.

      Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health

  • 6:

    Understanding Healthy vs. Unhealthy Behaviors

    1. PO 1.

      Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors

    2. PO 2.

      Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

    3. PO 3.

      Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors

  • 1:

    External Influences on Personal Health

    1. PO 1.

      Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents

    2. PO 2.

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

    3. PO 3.

      Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

    4. PO 4.

      Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors

    5. PO 5.

      Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors

    6. PO 6.

      Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health

  • 2:

    Internal Influences on Personal Health

    1. PO 1.

      Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

    2. PO 2.

      Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors

    3. PO 3.

      Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors

  • 3:

    Influence of Public Policy on Health

    1. PO 1.

      Examine and explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention

Access to Health Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Health

  • 1:

    Knowledge of Sources of Help

    1. PO 1.

      Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services

  • 2:

    Accessing Help

    1. PO 1.

      Access valid health information from home, school, and community

    2. PO 2.

      Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health

    3. PO 3.

      Describe situations that may require professional health services

    4. PO 4.

      Locate valid and reliable health products and services

Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health

  • 1:

    Communication to Enhance Help

    1. PO 1.

      Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

    2. PO 2.

      Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks

  • 2:

    Self Protection and Dealing with Conflict

    1. PO 1.

      Identify effective conflict management or resolution strategies

  • 3:

    Asking for Help

    1. PO 1.

      Identify ways to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others

Use of Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Health

  • 1:

    Influences on Health Decision Making

    1. PO 1.

      Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

  • 2:

    Application of Decision-Making Skills to Health

    1. PO 1.

      Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process

    2. PO 2.

      Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate

    3. PO 3.

      Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems

    4. PO 4.

      Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others

    5. PO 5.

      Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision

    6. PO 6.

      Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision

Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health

  • 1:

    Assessment of Health

    1. PO 1.

      Assess personal health practices

  • 2:

    Health-Related Goal Setting

    1. PO 1.

      Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice

    2. PO 2.

      Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal

    3. PO 3.

      Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities

Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors

  • 1:

    Personal Responsibility for Health

    1. PO 1.

      Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors

  • 2:

    Healthy Practices and Behaviors

    1. PO 1.

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

    2. PO 2.

      Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others

Ability to Advocate for Health

  • 1:

    Personal Advocacy

    1. PO 1.

      State a health enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information

    2. PO 2.

      Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices

  • 2:

    Collective Advocacy

    1. PO 1.

      Demonstrate how to work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools

  • 3:

    Tailoring Advocacy Message to Audience

    1. PO 1.

      Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8
When were these standards adopted?
2009
Where can I read the official document?
Arizona Health Education Standards

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