Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance personal health.

  • 1.

    Identifying life skills that improve health and wellness;A.4.1

  • 2.

    Discussing healthy and unhealthy behaviors and their effect on health;A.4.2

  • 3.

    Identifying personal health enhancing strategies that encompass substance abuse prevention, nutrition, exercise, injury and disease prevention, and stress management, including traditional and contemporary strategies from American Indian cultures;A.4.3

  • 4.

    Describing risky behaviors and their potential consequences;A.4.4

  • 5.

    Discussing various characteristics of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;A.4.5

  • 6.

    Describing how universal precautions and other hygienic practices reduce the risk for contracting disease;A.4.6

  • 7.

    Describing the potential sources of environmental factors that affect health;A.4.7

  • 8.

    Discussing practices for safe school and community environments;A.4.8

  • 9.

    Describing common childhood health problems and potential treatments;A.4.9

  • 10.

    Describing when it is important to seek health care; andA.4.10

  • 11.

    Discussing the structure and function of each of the following major systems: circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.A.4.11

Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

  • 1.

    Explaining ways family and culture influence personal health practices and behaviors;B.4.1

  • 2.

    Discussing ways that peers influence behavior;B.4.2

  • 3.

    Identifying how the school, tribe, and community can support personal health practices and behaviors;B.4.3

  • 4.

    Discussing why the media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors;B.4.4

  • 5.

    Identifying ways technology can influence personal health; andB.4.5

  • 6.

    Discussing ways that school and community policies promote health, safety, and disease prevention.B.4.6

Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Identifying qualities of valid health information, products, and services; andC.4.1

  • 2.

    Describing resources from home, school, tribe, and community that provide valid health information.C.4.2

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

  • 1.

    Demonstrating ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect of self and others, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;D.4.1

  • 2.

    Identifying reasons to use refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks;D.4.2

  • 3.

    Identifying strategies to control angry feelings; andD.4.3

  • 4.

    Describing reasons for seeking assistance to enhance the health and safety of self and others.D.4.4

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health and safety.

  • 1.

    Discussing options of what to do in potential safety and health-risk situations;E.4.1

  • 2.

    Identifying situations when assistance is needed to make safety and health-related decisions;E.4.2

  • 3.

    Identifying positive alternatives to resolving safety and health-related issues or problems;E.4.3

  • 4.

    Explaining possible consequences of health-related decisions; andE.4.4

  • 5.

    Creating a list of positive and negative outcomes related to various safety and health-related decisions.E.4.5

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Discussing reasons for setting personal health goals; andF.4.1

  • 2.

    Discussing personal health goal-setting and the resources that can assist in achieving goals.F.4.2

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

  • 1.

    Discussing practices of healthy behaviors toward self and others;G.4.1

  • 2.

    Identifying responsible personal health behaviors;G.4.2

  • 3.

    Explaining personal health practices and behaviors that maintain or improve personal health; andG.4.3

  • 4.

    Discussing reasons for healthy behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.G.4.4

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

  • 1.

    Discussing accurate information about a health issue;H.4.1

  • 2.

    Discussing ways that encourage others to make positive health choices; andH.4.2

  • 3.

    Comparing and contrasting health messages and communication techniques.H.4.3

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 4
When were these standards adopted?
2016
Where can I read the official document?
Montana Health Enhancement Standards