Grades 6, 7, 8
Other South Dakota Health Education sets
Other South Dakota Health Education sets
Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
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Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.1.8.1
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Describe the interrelationships of emotional, mental, physical, and social health in adolescence.1.8.2
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Analyze how the environment affects personal health.1.8.3
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Describe how family history can affect personal health.1.8.4
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Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems.1.8.5
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Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.1.8.6
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Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.1.8.7
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Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.1.8.8
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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.
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Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.2.8.1
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Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.2.8.2
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Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.2.8.3
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Analyze how the school and community can influence personal health practices and behaviors.2.8.4
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Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.2.8.5
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Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.2.8.6
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Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.2.8.7
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Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.2.8.8
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Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.2.8.9
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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 and products and services to enhance health.
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Locate valid and reliable health information products and services.3.8.1
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Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services.3.8.2
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Access valid health information from home, school, and community.3.8.3
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Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health.3.8.4
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Describe situations that may require professional health services.3.8.5
Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risk.
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Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.4.8.1
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Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.4.8.2
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Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.4.8.3
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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.
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Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.5.8.1
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Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.5.8.2
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Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.5.8.3
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Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.5.8.4
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Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others.5.8.5
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Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.5.8.6
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Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision.5.8.7
Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
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Assess personal health practices.6.8.1
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Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.6.8.2
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Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.6.8.3
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Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, resources and responsibilities.6.8.4
Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risk.
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Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.7.8.1
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Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.7.8.2
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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.
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State a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information.8.8.1
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Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.8.8.2
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Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families and schools.8.8.3
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Identify ways in which 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?
- 2011
- Where can I read the official document?
- South Dakota Health Education Standards
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