Grade 6 Health GSE Standards

Sixth Grade (17.00700)

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

Compare how healthy behaviors and risk practices impact personal health.

Identify the interrelationships of emotional and social health in adolescence.

Examine how one's surroundings impact personal health and well-being.

Practice ways to reduce or prevent injuries.

Identify how health care can promote personal health and well-being.

Identify the benefits of practicing healthy behaviors.

Describe the consequences of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Explain the importance of choosing healthy foods and beverages.

Describe why household products are harmful if ingested or inhaled.

Differentiate short and long-term effects of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drug use, including social and legal implications.

Describe positive alternatives to using alcohol and other drugs.

Analyze the characteristics of healthy relationships.

Describe the short and long-term effects of engaging in risky behaviors.

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

Describe the influences on adolescence.

Identify the influence of various cultures on health beliefs and practices.

Explain how peers influence healthy behaviors.

Identify how the community can impact personal health practices and behaviors.

Illustrate how media messages influence health behaviors.

Explain the influence of technology on family health.

Explain the harmful effects of explicit media, messaging, and images on self-esteem body image, and relationships.

Identify norms that influence health behaviors.

Compare how choices influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Identify how school and public health policies can influence health promotion.

Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Determine and examine the validity of health information, products, and services to prevent and detect health problems.

Identify valid health information from home, school, and community that enhances health.

Determine the accessibility of products that enhance and promote health.

Describe circumstances that may require professional health services and resources.

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

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance personal health and well-being.

Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

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

Analyze influences in making an unhealthy or healthy choice.

Identify situations that may require a decision-making process.

Distinguish whether the individual should make decisions or if help should be sought.

Choose between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related situations.

Study the potential short-term consequences of healthy and unhealthy alternatives on self and others.

Decide which alternatives are healthy when making a decision.

Predict the outcomes of a health-related decision.

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

Assess personal health practices.

Choose a personal health practice with a goal for adoption.

Develop a plan to achieve a personal health goal.

Explain how personal health goals can vary with changing priorities.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify the importance of accepting responsibility for personal health behaviors.

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

Model practices to avoid or reduce health risks to self and/or others.

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Investigate a health position or practice and support it with valid information.

Identify strategies that will support others in positive choices regarding their health.

Collaborate with others to advocate for healthy lifestyles and/or choices.

Identify the methods in which health messages can be altered to appeal to different age groups.