Grades 5, 6, 7, 8

Other Connecticut Health & Physical Education sets

• Grades Pre-K, K
• Grades 1, 2, 3, 4
• Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Analyze the validity of health information and the cost of products and servicesM.2.1

Demonstrate the ability to locate and use resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information, products and servicesM.2.2

Examine factors that may influence the personal selection of health information, products and servicesM.2.3

Demonstrate ways to obtain medically accurate information about comprehensive sexuality education from family, school personnel, health professionals and other responsible adultsM.2.4

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviorsM.3.1

Examine personal health status to determine needsM.3.2

Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful behaviors involving themselves and/or othersM.3.3

Apply strategies to improve or maintain personal and family health by examining influences, rules and legal responsibilities that affect decisionsM.3.4

Examine and apply safety techniques to avoid and reduce injury and prevent diseaseM.3.5

Apply skills to manage stressM.3.6

Examine the influence of family beliefs and cultural beliefs on personal health behaviorsM.4.1

Analyze how media, technology and other factors influence personal health behaviorsM.4.2

Analyze how family, school and peers influence personal healthM.4.3

Identify and explain how the media may influence behaviors and decisions in regard to sexualityM.4.4

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills as a means of enhancing healthM.5.1

Use characteristics needed to be a responsible individual within their peer group, school, family and communityM.5.2

Identify ways in which emotions may affect communication, behavior and relationshipsM.5.3

Compare and contrast healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelingsM.5.4

Demonstrate ways to communicate care, empathy, respect and responsibility for others without bias, abuse, discrimination or harassment based on, but not limited to, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital status, mental retardation, mental disorder and learning and/or physical disabilityM.5.5

Use communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationshipsM.5.6

Demonstrate avoidance, refusal and negotiation skills to enhance healthy relationshipsM.5.7

Examine the possible causes of conflict among youth in schools and communitiesM.5.8

Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts in healthy ways and identify adults and peers who might assist, when appropriateM.5.9

Use a decisionmaking process to enhance healthM.6.1

Describe and analyze how health-related decisions are influenced by using resources from family, school and communityM.6.2

Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for themselves and othersM.6.3

Use the goal-setting process to enhance healthM.7.1

Analyze various methods to accurately express health information, concepts and skillsM.8.1

Support a healthy position with accurate informationM.8.2

Analyze community agencies that advocate for healthy individuals, families and communitiesM.8.3

Encourage and support others in making positive health choicesM.8.4

Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in small groups when advocating for healthy individuals, families and schoolsM.8.5

Promote positive ways to show care and consideration for others (e.g. persons living with HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer)M.8.6

Assess the impact of family, cultural, media and societal messages on one's thoughts, feelings, values and behaviors related to sexualityM.8.7

Demonstrate developmentally mature form in the fundamental movement skills in combinations of closed and open environmentsM.9.1

Demonstrate developmentally mature applications combining locomotor, nonlocomotor and manipulative skills to participate in developmentally appropriate movement and fitness activitiesM.9.2

Adapt and combine skills to meet the demands of increasingly dynamic environmentsM.9.3

Develop increasing competence in more advanced specialized skillsM.9.4

Participate in a variety of individual, dual and team tasks, activities, creative movement, dance, play, games and sportsM.9.5

Demonstrate an understanding of what the body does, where the body moves, how the body performs the movement and relationships that occur in increasingly more complex movement and game formsM.10.1

Use self, peer, teacher and technological resources to recognize and suggest performance improvements in self and othersM.10.2

Demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety practices and procedures as they apply to an increasing range of movement situationsM.10.3

Engage in an increased variety of moderate to vigorous developmentally appropriate physical activities on a regular basisM.11.1

Apply an understanding of the connections between the purposes of movements and their effect on fitnessM.11.2

Apply the understanding of physical activity concepts to increasingly complex movement and game formsM.11.3

Engage in a variety of appropriate physical activities during and outside of school that promote the development and improvement of physical fitness levelM.11.4

Demonstrate the skills and knowledge to assess levels of physical fitness and participate in activities that develop and maintain each componentM.12.1

Assess physiological responses to exercise associated with one's level of physical fitness and nutritional balanceM.12.2

Analyze the results of one or more components of health-related fitnessM.12.3

Plan a wellness program demonstrating anunderstanding of basic exercise (e.g., frequency, intensity, duration) and nutritional principles designed to meet personal wellness goalsM.12.4

Understand, participate in the development of, and follow classroom rules; follow activity-specific rules, safety practices and procedures; and apply safe practices, rules, procedures, etiquette and good sportsmanship in all physical activity settingsM.13.1

Continue to develop skills to participate productively in groups, in both cooperative and competitive activitiesM.13.2

Develop strategies for including all persons, despite individual differences, in physical activity settingsM.13.3

Apply appropriate skills for resolving conflicts peacefullyM.13.4

Make decisions about participating in different physical activities based on feelings and interestsM.14.1

Use physical activity as a means of selfand group expressionM.14.2

Use physical activity as a positive opportunity for social and group interaction and development of leadership skillsM.14.3

Realize that physical activity and challenges present opportunities for personal growthM.14.4

Value the skill competence that results from practiceM.14.5

Demonstrate willingness to attempt a variety of new physical activitiesM.14.6