Grade 8 Health Delaware standards Standards

Adapt health messages and communication techniques for different audiences.

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

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

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

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

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

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

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

Describe the importance of being responsible for personal health behaviors.

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

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

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

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

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

Assess personal health practices.

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

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

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

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.

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

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

Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.

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

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.

Decision making is a process that impacts health

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

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

Model effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

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

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Effective communication protects and enhances health

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

Locate valid and reliable health products and services.

Describe situations that may require professional health services.

Explore the accessibility of health services

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

Analyze the validity of health information, products and services.

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

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

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

Relate how personal values and beliefs influence individual health practices.

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

Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.

Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.

Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs and practices.

Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.

Health is influenced by multiple factors

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

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

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

Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing a healthy behavior

Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.

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

Describe how family history can impact personal health.

Analyze how the environment impacts personal health.

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

Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

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

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

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

Exhibit unique self-expression through physical activity

Discuss or describe how physical activity enhances their quality of life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Play safely within the rules of an activity

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

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

Logically sequence planned activities to obtain optimal health benefits

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

Self assess fitness level

Explain the benefits of and participate in daily exercise

Participate in activities designed to maintain each component of fitness

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

Physical fitness is essential to health throughout life.

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

Choose activities consistent with interests and physical and mental development

Identify differences between personal motivation and peer pressure

Demonstrate appropriate etiquette during all physical education activities

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

Participate fully in physical education class

Come to class prepared to participate

Monitor and document physical education/physical activity involvement

Identify strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan

We need to be physically active.

Participates regularly in physical activity

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

Recognize, explain and apply development difference to movement activities.

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

Choose an appropriate practice to master a specific skill.

Access a variety of resources

Explain and utilize the FITT components.

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

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

Recognize the difference in skill levels and participate accordingly.

Transfer fundamental motor skills to a variety of activities safely.

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

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

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

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

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

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