What grade levels do these standards cover?

Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12

Where can I read the official document?

Mississippi Contemporary Health (9-12) Framework

K–12 Standards

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
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Personal and Consumer Health

1.
Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
1. a.
  Define health and list characteristics of a healthy person.
2. b.
  State good personal hygiene habits, including dental, skin, hair, ear, eye, and nail care.
2.
Demonstrate the ability to use goal setting and decision making skills to enhance health.
1. a.
  Identify the steps in the decision-making model.
2. b.
  Apply the decision-making model to solve a personal problem.
3. c.
  Define a value system and identify the relationship of values to actions.
3.
Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer.
1. a.
  Identify rights and responsibilities as a consumer.
2. b.
  Identify the activities of agencies that protect the consumer.
3. c.
  Identify popular types of deceptive advertising and product fraud.
4. d.
  Recognize medical fraud in the marketplace.
5. e.
  Examine costs and options for paying for health care services.
4.
Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.
1. a.
  Evaluate the implications of modern technology on societal health.
2. b.
  Analyze the influences of different cultural beliefs on health behaviors.

Mental Health

1.
Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors that contribute to positive mental health.
1. a.
  Explain how an individual's mental and physical health habits affect what he or she thinks about himself or herself.
2. b.
  Identify nonthreatening ways of being assertive.
3. c.
  Identify common defense mechanisms.
2.
Describe how stress influences mental health.
1. a.
  Identify the harmful physiological and psychological effects of stress.
2. b.
  Develop a stress management plan.
3.
Define functional and organic mental disorders and state controls for each.
1. a.
  Identify different mental health disorders and recognize signs of each.
2. b.
  Identify available resources for treatment of mental illness.
3. c.
  Identify warning signs of suicide and demonstrate intervention strategies.
4. d.
  Identify the relationship between psychological factors and eating disorders.

Family/Social Health

1.
Describe how the skills of communication, cooperation, and advocacy are essential for healthy relationships.
1. a.
  Identify strategies for choosing abstinence when faced with sexual pressures.
2. b.
  Identify qualities that are important in close friends.
3. c.
  Discuss conflict-resolution styles and components of communication that can aid in resolving conflicts.
4. d.
  Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals.
2.
Describe why the family is the basic social unit of society.
1. a.
  Describe elements that healthy families have in common and ways to maintain family health.
2. b.
  Explain factors that may cause a family system to break down (to include spousal and child abuse.).
3. c.
  Define the role of the family in the transmission of values, attitudes, behavior, personalities, and responsibilities of its members.

Human Growth and Development

1.
Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.
1. a.
  Define the role heredity plays in determining physical traits and distinguish between dominant and recessive genes.
2. b.
  Identify various genetic and environmental birth defects.
2.
Examine health practices to be considered before, during, and after pregnancy.
1. a.
  List reasons that parents decide to have children.
2. b.
  Discuss various methods of family planning.
3. c.
  Explain the process of human reproduction from conception to birth.
4. d.
  Describe the stages of the birth process.
3.
Identify physical, mental, and emotional changes that occur from childhood through adolescence.
1. a.
  Trace developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
2. b.
  Name the physical, mental, and emotional changes that happen during adolescence and state how these changes affect identity and interpersonal relationships.
4.
Examine the aging process from adulthood through death.
1. a.
  Identify the tasks and characteristics of adulthood.
2. b.
  Identify ways to cope with death and dying.

Disease Prevention and Control

1.
Recognize the causes, transfer, and control of common communicable diseases.
1. a.
  Identify the pathogens that cause communicable disease and how they are transmitted.
2. b.
  Describe the transmission, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of communicable diseases.
3. c.
  Describe the function of the immune system.
2.
Recognize the ways to prevent HIV infection and STDs.
1. a.
  Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
2. b.
  Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, prevention, and treatment of HIV and AIDS.
3.
State causes, signs, and control of noninfectious diseases.
1. a.
  Name the different kinds of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors.
2. b.
  Describe the warning signs of cancer and the ways to reduce personal risk, including breast and/or testicular cancer.
3. c.
  Explain the types, prevention, and treatments for diabetes, arthritis, and other chronic diseases including those requiring, long-term care.

Nutrition and Fitness

1.
Summarize how responsible food choices lead to nutritional health.
1. a.
  Explain the organization of MyPlate.
2. b.
  Identify six classes of nutrients and describe their functions in the human body.
3. c.
  Trace the path of food through the digestive system.
4. d.
  Identify kinds of information provided on a food label.
5. e.
  Create a daily meal plan for students' own families and calculate the number of calories.
6. f.
  Recognize diseases associated with poor nutrition.
2.
Discover the importance of fitness.
1. a.
  Explain the physical and psychological benefits of exercise.
2. b.
  Develop a regular plan of exercise using the four parts of physical fitness and two types of exercise.
3. c.
  Develop skills needed to achieve lifetime fitness.

Substance Abuse Prevention

1.
Examine the health hazards of tobacco.
1. a.
  List major reasons why people either abstain from or use tobacco.
2. b.
  Describe long-term effects of tobacco use and the dangers of smoking.
2.
Summarize the health hazards of alcohol.
1. a.
  Identify the short- and long-term effects of alcohol on the body.
2. b.
  Explain the impact of alcohol on alcoholics, their families, and society.
3.
Analyze the health hazards of drugs and benefits of medicines.
1. a.
  Differentiate between legal and illegal drugs and explain the benefits of medicines and harmful effects of illegal drugs.
2. b.
  Describe the side effects of drugs and how drugs are commonly abused.
3. c.
  Illustrate how drug use, misuse, and abuse cause problems in society.
4. d.
  Explain how medicines benefit the life of human beings.
4.
Illustrate the health hazards of inhalants.
1. a.
  Discuss various types of inhalants and identify dangers associated with the use of inhalants.
5.
Discuss refusal and intervention skills.
1. a.
  Develop refusal skills for all forms of drugs and inhalants.
2. b.
  Demonstrate ways to intervene and help a drug-dependent friend.
3. c.
  Describe how individuals can help reduce the misuse and abuse of drugs.
4. d.
  Explain how alcohol and drugs can increase the vulnerability to unwanted sexual advances.

Community and Environmental Health

1.
Identify community health-care agencies, health careers, and the importance of family medical records.
1. a.
  Describe organizations and services that assist the community and individuals in health promotion.
2. b.
  List career opportunities in health.
3. c.
  Explain the importance of family medical records.
2.
Explain how environment affects people and how people affect the environment.
1. a.
  Determine how pollution, natural disasters, over-population, and community violence affect our environmental health.
2. b.
  Name sources of air, water, noise, radiation, and ground pollution.
3. c.
  Describe government agencies that protect the environment.
4. d.
  Identify the importance of conserving natural resources and the green movement.

Safety and First Aid

1.
Discuss promotion of safety and prevention of accidents.
1. a.
  Describe behaviors that promote home safety.
2. b.
  Describe ways to prepare for natural disasters in the community.
3. c.
  Identify basic safety rules that help prevent accidents at work and school.
4. d.
  Recognize recreational-related injuries and how to prevent them.
5. e.
  Explain ways to promote vehicle safety, including regular use of seat belts for all ages.
6. f.
  Recognize dangerous situations, including rape, assault, misuse of social networking, and gang-related activities, and how to avoid them.
2.
Discuss and demonstrate procedures for emergency situations.
1. a.
  Identify, assess, and learn to respond to emergency situations.
2. b.
  Assemble contents of a basic first aid kit.
3. c.
  Practice first aid emergency procedures, including reporting accidents and providing first aid for wounds, choking, fractures, heart attacks, seizures, and poisonings.

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12
When were these standards adopted?: 2012
Where can I read the official document?: Mississippi Contemporary Health (9-12) Framework

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