Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 1.8.1 Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
• 1.8.2 Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence.
• 1.8.3 Analyze how the environment affects personal health.
• 1.8.5 Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems.
• 1.8.6 Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.
• 1.8.7 Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.
• 1.8.8 Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.
• 1.8.9 Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 4.8.1 Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
• 4.8.2 Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
• 4.8.3 Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
• 4.8.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 5.8.1 Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.
• 5.8.2 Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.
• 5.8.3 Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.
• 5.8.4 Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.
• 5.8.5 Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others.
• 5.8.6 Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.
• 5.8.7 Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 6.8.1 Assess personal health practices.
• 6.8.2 Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.
• 6.8.3 Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.
• 6.8.4 Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.

Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 7.9.5.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

Communicate using traditional or digital multimedia formats and digital writing and publishing for a specific purpose.

As evidenced based on classroom assessments, the student is able to:

• 7.9.8.8 As an individual or in collaboration, create an artistic or entertaining multimedia work or a piece of digital communication or contribute to an online collaboration for a specific purpose.

Projects:

• Environmental Health PSA
• Physical Health Team Video
• Character Promotion PSA
• Decision-Making Cartoon
• CPR Scenarios
• Collaborative Videos

Exams:

• CPR Certification

Other Resources:

• Video Editing Software
• Cartoon Creator Software
• Video Recording Equipment