Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Other Connecticut Health & Physical Education sets

• Grades Pre-K, K
• Grades 1, 2, 3, 4
• Grades 5, 6, 7, 8

Evaluate the validity of health information and the cost of products and servicesH.2.1

Demonstrate the ability to access and evaluate resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information and services for themselves and othersH.2.2

Evaluate factors that may influence the personal selection of health products and servicesH.2.3

Analyze medically accurate information about comprehensive sexuality education from family, school personnel, health professionals and other responsible adultsH.2.4

Assess the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviorsH.3.1

Analyze personal health status to determine needsH.3.2

Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful behaviors affecting themselves and others in the communityH.3.3

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

Use and evaluate safety techniques to avoid and reduce injury and prevent diseaseH.3.5

Evaluate and apply appropriate stress management strategiesH.3.6

Analyze how family and cultural diversity enriches and affects personal health behaviorsH.4.1

Evaluate the effects of media, technology and other factors on personal, family and community healthH.4.2

Evaluate how information from family, school, peers and the community influences personal healthH.4.3

Analyze the media influence on behaviors and decisions as it relates to sexualityH.4.4

Compare and contrast skills for communicating effectively with family, peers and othersH.5.1

Apply and evaluate characteristics needed to be a responsible individual within their peer group, school, family, and communityH.5.2

Demonstrate the ability to identify positive and negative emotions and analyze the impact on behaviorH.5.3

Analyze situations and demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelingsH.5.4

Demonstrate 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 disabilityH.5.5

Prioritize and demonstrate strategies for maintaining healthy relationships and solving interpersonal conflictsH.5.6

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

Analyze the possible causes of conflict in families, among peers, and in schools and communitiesH.5.8

Demonstrate strategies used to prevent, manage and resolve conflict in healthy ways and identify adults and peers and community resources that might assist, when appropriateH.5.9

Demonstrate various strategies when making decisions to enhance healthH.6.1

Demonstrate the ability to make healthenhancing decisions using the collaborative decisionmaking processH.6.2

Predict the immediate and long-term impact of health decisions on the individual, family and communityH.6.3

Demonstrate various strategies when making goal-setting decisions to enhance healthH.7.1

Evaluate the effectiveness of methods for accurately expressing health information, concepts and skillsH.8.1

Support and defend a position with accurate health informationH.8.2

Engage the support of community agencies that advocate for healthy individuals, families and communitiesH.8.3

Use the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choicesH.8.4

Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in larger, more diverse groups when advocating for healthy communitiesH.8.5

Engage others to develop health campaigns which promote care, consideration and concern for others (e.g. persons living with HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer)H.8.6

Analyze the power of choice with personal relationships and examine the responsibility and consequences regarding actions/behaviors related to sexualityH.8.7

Maintain and further develop the fundamental movement skills in open environmentsH.9.1

Demonstrate competence in applying basic locomotor, nonlocomotor and manipulative skills in the execution of more complex skillsH.9.2

Use complex movements and patterns within a variety of dynamic environmentsH.9.3

Develop advanced skills in selected physical activitiesH.9.4

Participate in a wide variety of activities, including dance, games, sports and lifetime physical activitiesH.9.5

Demonstrate an understanding of what the body does, where the body moves, how the body performs the movement and relationships that enable skilled performancesH.10.1

Use self, peer, teacher and technological resources as tools to implement performance improvements in self and othersH.10.2

Demonstrate understanding of how rules, and safety practices and procedures need to be adjusted for different movement situationsH.10.3

Regularly engage in moderate to vigorous physical activities of their choice on a regular basisH.11.1

Apply characteristics of performance in a variety of activities for purposeful, recreational, skill and fitness outcomesH.11.2

Apply, evaluate and analyze critical elements of physical activity concepts to increasingly complex game formsH.11.3

Engage in a variety of appropriate physical activities with individualized goals, during and outside of school, that promote the development and improvement of physical fitness levelH.11.4

Assess and adjust activities to maintain or improve personal level of health-related fitnessH.12.1

Use physiological data to adjust levels of exercise and nutrient intake to promote wellnessH.12.2

Use the results of fitness assessments to guide changes in her or his personal programs of physical activityH.12.3

Design and implement a personal wellness program based upon information obtained from the fitness assessment and in accordance with appropriate training and nutritional principlesH.12.4

Apply safe practices, rules, procedures etiquette and good sportsmanship in all physical activity settings, and take initiative to encourage others to do the sameH.13.1

Demonstrate leadership and cooperation in order to accomplish the goals of different physical activitiesH.13.2

Develop and demonstrate initiative in implementing strategies for including all persons, despite individual differences, in physical activity settingsH.13.3

Demonstrate initiative in using appropriate skills for resolving conflicts peacefully and encouraging others to do the sameH.13.4

Make decisions and implement plans to participate in different physical activities based on interests and positive feelings of accomplishment in daily livingH.14.1

Use physical activity as a means of creative expressionH.14.2

Use physical activity as a positive opportunity for social and group interaction and development of lifelong skills and relationshipsH.14.3

Seek personally challenging experiences through physical activity as a means to personal growthH.14.4

Persist in practicing activities to increase specific skill competence in areas of interestH.14.5

Experiment with new physical activities as part of a personal improvement planH.14.6