Grade 7 Health Delaware Standards

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.

Predict the short-term impact of each alternative on self and others.

Analyze how the environment impacts personal health.

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.

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

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

Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing a healthy behavior

Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Model healthy practices that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Analyze the outcome(s) of a health-related decision.

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

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

Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

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

Decision making is a process that impacts health

Relate how personal values and beliefs influence individual health practices.

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Effective communication protects and enhances health

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

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

Describe the importance of being responsible for personal health behaviors.

Determine when health-related situations require the application of a decision-making process.

Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.

Assess personal health practices.

Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.

Apply strategies and skills needed to attain the personal health goal.

Describe how family history can impact personal health.

Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.

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

Describe the interrelationship of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence.

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

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

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

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

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

Health is influenced by multiple factors

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

Explain how to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Analyze the validity of health information, products and services.

Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.

Adapt health messages and communication techniques for different audiences.

Explore the accessibility of health services

Describe the influence of alcohol and other drug use on judgment and self control.

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.

Work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals, families, and schools.

Model effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

Describe situations that may require professional health services.

Imagine how serious injury or illness could be if engaging in unhealthy practices.

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

Students will understand essential health concepts in order to transfer knowledge into healthy actions for life

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

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

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

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

Locate valid and reliable health products and services.

Evaluate practices to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.

Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs and practices.

Choose an appropriate practice to master a specific skill.

Come to class prepared to participate

Improve personal effort/engagement/level of exertions during physical education class

Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities

Achieves and maintains a personal health-enhancing level of physical fitness

Create and design a new game that can be played fairly by all.

Identify differences between personal motivation and peer pressure

Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Explore and apply the training principles within the context of PE class

Create and use multiple ways (strategies for solving differences/disagreements

We need to be physically active.

Physical Activity involves using movement and motor skills throughout your life.

Physical fitness is essential to health throughout life.

Develop a comprehensive list of physical activities that can be enjoyed throughout a life span

Access a variety of resources

Play safely within the rules of an activity

Exhibit self control in a variety of activities (sport/game)

Recognize, explain and apply development difference to movement activities.

Perform basic tactics of sports activities (risks, strategies, positioning).

Creates opportunities for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction through physical activity

Participates regularly in physical activity

Movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics are used in physical activities.

Develop a comprehensive list of physical activities that can be enjoyed throughout physical activity

Monitor and document physical education/physical activity involvement

Explain the benefits of and participate in daily exercise

Lead a small and large group activity (with teacher assistance)

Participate in activities designed to maintain each component of fitness

Identify strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan

Explain their skill level for variety of physical activities, including reasons for each and does the skill level impact their value of that activity

To calculate heart rate and determine if it is in the proper range

There are personal & social behavioral expectations in physical activity settings.

Use and apply the FITT concepts in a variety of activities.

Demonstrate appropriate etiquette during all physical education activities

Self assess fitness level

Recognize and work with the diverse levels of ability within a variety of physical activities

Recognize the difference in skill levels and participate accordingly.

Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities

Discuss or describe how physical activity enhances their quality of life

Physical activity provides a variety of opportunity for enjoyment, social interaction, challenge and/or self-expression.

Logically sequence planned activities to obtain optimal health benefits

Exhibit unique self-expression through physical activity

Choose activities consistent with interests and physical and mental development

Perform basic tactics of sports activities (risks, strategies, positioning).

Transfer fundamental motor skills to a variety of activities safely.

Design and perform aerobic activities (dance, fitness routine).

Perform basic sports skills (i.e. dribble, pass, shoot, serve, kick).

Identify their likes and dislikes of a variety of physical activities, including reasons for each

Participate fully in physical education class

Explain and utilize the FITT components.