High School Health Delaware Standards

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

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

Exhibit individual responsibility for enhancing personal health.

Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision making.

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

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

Self assess personal values and beliefs on individual health practices

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

Assess personal health practices and overall health status.

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

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

Justify when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.

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

Analyze how culture supports and challenges health beliefs and practices.

Consider how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

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

Analyze how genetics and family history can impact personal health.

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

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

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

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

Evaluate the effect of media on personal and family health.

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

Decision making is a process that impacts health

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

Generate alternatives to health-related issues or problems

Compare the accessibility of health products and services.

Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems.

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.

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

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

Predict how healthy behaviors impact health status

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defend the healthy choice when making decisions.

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

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions.

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

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

Evaluate the validity of health information, products and services

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

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

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

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

Health is influenced by multiple factors

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

Determine when professional health services may be required.

Formulate an effective long-term personal health plan.

Analyze how the family influences the health of individuals.

Effective communication protects and enhances health

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

Access valid and reliable school and community health services.

Maintain/create activity log

Demonstrate self expression through physical activity

Practice to improve

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

Select and perform a variety of activities

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

Reflect on choices of physical activity

Create and determine physical activity opportunities for self fulfillment

Participates regularly in physical activity

Assess and adjust their heart rate during various levels of activity

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

Interpret and utilize the results of the self assessment

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

Create and identify a physically safe environment

Interpret "Fitnessgram"/fitness test results

Identify activities for personal enjoyment

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

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

Apply training principles for self improvement

Identify intrinsic and extrinsic influences to participation

Link physical activity with health related component of fitness

Self assess their personal fitness levels

Assume the role of an official/referee during an activity

Provide reasons for participation

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

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

Adapt physical activity choices based on life circumstances

Develop realistic short and long term fitness goals.

Everybody needs to be physically active

Apply concepts to personal activities and authentic games to ensure safety

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

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

Access and utilize a variety of resources

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

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

Plan personal conditioning program.

Monitor/adapt participation for improvement and enjoyment

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

Recognize factors influencing their health-related fitness

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

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

Resolve conflicts during activities

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

Physical fitness contributes to quality of life

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

Choose activities to participate in regularly for lifespan wellness