Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.1.8.1

  • 2.

    Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence.1.8.2

  • 3.

    Analyze how the environment affects personal health.1.8.3

  • 4.

    Describe how family history can affect personal health (e.g., genetics and/or family behavior patterns).1.8.4

  • 5.

    Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems.1.8.5

  • 6.

    Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.1.8.6

  • 7.

    Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.1.8.7

  • 8.

    Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.1.8.8

  • 9.

    Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.1.8.9

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

  • 1.

    Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.2.8.1

  • 2.

    Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices and behaviors.2.8.2

  • 3.

    Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.2.8.3

  • 4.

    Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors (e.g., tobacco free, healthy food access, safe bike routes, walking, school buses, etc.).2.8.4

  • 5.

    Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.2.8.5

  • 6.

    Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.2.8.6

  • 7.

    Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.2.8.7

  • 8.

    Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.2.8.8

  • 9.

    Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.2.8.9

  • 10.

    Explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention.2.8.10

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products and services to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Analyze the validity of health information, products and services.3.8.1

  • 2.

    Access valid health information from home, school, and community.3.8.2

  • 3.

    Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health.3.8.3

  • 4.

    Describe situations that may require professional health services.3.8.4

  • 5.

    Locate valid and reliable health products and services.3.8.5

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

  • 1.

    Apply effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to enhance health.4.8.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks.4.8.2

  • 3.

    Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.4.8.3

  • 4.

    Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.4.8.4

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision-making.5.8.1

  • 2.

    Determine when health-related situations require the application of decision-making skills.5.8.2

  • 3.

    Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate.5.8.3

  • 4.

    Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives of health-related decisions.5.8.4

  • 5.

    Predict the potential short-term impact of healthy and unhealthy alternatives to a health-related decision.5.8.5

  • 6.

    Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.5.8.6

  • 7.

    Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision.5.8.7

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

  • 1.

    Assess personal health practices.6.8.1

  • 2.

    Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.6.8.2

  • 3.

    Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.6.8.3

  • 4.

    Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.6.8.4

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

  • 1.

    Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.7.8.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.7.8.2

  • 3.

    Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.7.8.3

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

  • 1.

    State a health enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information.8.8.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.8.8.2

  • 3.

    Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.8.8.3

  • 4.

    Identify ways that health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences.8.8.4

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8
When were these standards adopted?
2016
Where can I read the official document?
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Health