High School Health Delaware Standards

Present health messages and communication techniques to a specific target audience.

Assume the role of an advocate for improving personal, family and community health.

Invent ways to influence and support others in making positive health choices

Design accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message.

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

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

Advocate for practices to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.

Compare and contrast a variety of health practices that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Exhibit individual responsibility for enhancing personal health.

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.

Formulate an effective long-term personal health plan.

Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving the personal health goal.

Develop a plan to attain a personal health goal that addresses strengths, needs, and risks.

Assess personal health practices and overall health status.

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

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

Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions.

Defend the healthy choice when making decisions.

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

Generate alternatives to health-related issues or problems

Justify when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.

Examine barriers that can 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.

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

Create strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others

Differentiate between refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Utilize skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others 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.

Access valid and reliable school and community health services.

Determine when professional health services may be required.

Compare the accessibility of health products and services.

Utilize resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information.

Evaluate 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.

Analyze how public health policies and government regulations influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Explain the influence of alcohol and other drug use on individual and group behavior.

Self assess personal values and beliefs on individual health practices

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

Evaluate the impact of technology on personal, family and community health.

Evaluate the effect of media on personal and family health.

Consider how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Analyze how culture supports and challenges health beliefs and practices.

Analyze how the family influences the health of individuals.

Health is influenced by multiple factors

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

Analyze the potential severity of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy practices.

Analyze personal susceptibility to injury, illness or death if engaging in unhealthy practices.

Explain the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors.

Analyze the relationship between access to health care and health status.

Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems.

Analyze how genetics and family history can impact personal health.

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

Analyze the interrelationship of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical health.

Predict how healthy behaviors impact health status

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

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

Adapt physical activity choices based on life circumstances

Demonstrate self expression through physical activity

Create and determine physical activity opportunities for self fulfillment

Reflect on choices of physical activity

Provide reasons for participation

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

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

Demonstrate (sport) etiquette in a variety of physical activity settings

Create and identify a physically safe environment

Demonstrate the inclusion of diverse populations in a variety of physical activities

Demonstrate/Participate leadership – in a game, as an official, as a coach, as a teacher, in creating a new game

Select and perform a variety of activities

Resolve conflicts during activities

Assume the role of an official/referee during 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

Link physical activity with health related component of fitness

Interpret "Fitnessgram"/fitness test results

Recognize factors influencing their health-related fitness

Apply knowledge, components and self-assessment to a personal fitness plan

Self assess their personal fitness levels

Interpret and utilize the results of the self assessment

Assess and adjust their heart rate during various levels of activity

Physical fitness contributes to quality of life

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

Access and utilize a variety of resources

Maintain/create activity log

Identify intrinsic and extrinsic influences to participation

Monitor/adapt participation for improvement and enjoyment

Apply training principles for self improvement

Identify activities for personal enjoyment

Choose activities to participate in regularly for lifespan wellness

Everybody needs to be physically active

Participates regularly in physical activity

Practice to improve

Apply concepts to personal activities and authentic games to ensure safety

Develop realistic short and long term fitness goals.

Plan personal conditioning program.

Break down a game into its tactical, strategic and skill components.

How to apply specific movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics to variety of physical activities.

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

Personalize the Health Related Components's as they apply to helping one become fit for life.

Refine sports skills and movement concepts to focus on a specific sport

Design an appropriate practice plan for a variety of motor skills.

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