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National Standards for School Health Education
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
NPH-H.5-8.1 HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE
PREVENTION
Students will comprehend concepts related
to health promotion and disease prevention.
- Explain the relationship between positive health behaviors
and the prevention of injury, illness, disease, and premature
death.
- Describe the interrelationship of mental, emotional, social,
and physical health during adolescence.
- Explain how health is influenced by the interaction of
body systems.
- Describe how family and peers influence the health of
adolescents.
- Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.
- Describe ways to reduce risks related to adolescent health
problems.
- Explain how appropriate health care can prevent premature
death and disability.
- Describe how lifestyle, pathogens, family history, and
other risk factors are related to the cause or prevention
of disease and other health problems.
NPH-H.5-8.2 HEALTH INFORMATION, PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES
Students will demonstrate the ability to
access valid health information and health-promoting products
and services.
- Analyze the validity of health information, products,
and services.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize resources from home,
school, and community that provide valid health information.
- Analyze how media influences the selection of health information
and products.
- Demonstrate the ability to locate health products and
services.
- Compare the costs and validity of health products.
- Describe situations requiring professional health services.
NPH-H.5-8.3 REDUCING HEALTH RISKS
Students will demonstrate the ability to
practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
- Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for
personal health behaviors.
- Analyze a personal health assessment to determine health
strengths and risks.
- Distinguish between safe and risky or harmful behaviors
in relationships.
- Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal
and family health.
- Develop injury prevention and management strategies for
personal and family health.
- Demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.
- Demonstrate strategies to manage stress.
NPH-H.5-8.4 INFLUENCES ON HEALTH
Students will analyze the influence of culture,
media, technology, and other factors on health.
- Describe the influence of cultural beliefs on health behaviors
and the use of health services.
- Analyze how messages from media and other sources influence
health behaviors.
- Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family
health.
- Analyze how information from peers influences health.
NPH-H.5-8.5 USING COMMUNICATION SKILLS
TO PROMOTE HEALTH
Students will demonstrate the ability to
use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
- Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication
skills to enhance health.
- Describe how the behavior of family and peers affects
interpersonal communication.
- Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.
- Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, and
respect of self and others.
- Demonstrate communication skills to build and maintain
healthy relationships.
- Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills to enhance
health.
- Analyze the possible causes of conflict among; youth in
schools and communities.
- Demonstrate strategies to manage conflict in healthy ways.
NPH-H.5-8.6 SETTING GOALS FOR GOOD HEALTH
Students will demonstrate the ability to
use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision- making process
to health issues and problems individually and collaboratively.
- Analyze how health-related decisions are influenced by
individuals, family, and community values.
- Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have
consequences for self and others.
- Apply strategies and skills needed to attain personal
health goals.
- Describe how personal health goals are influenced by changing
information, abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.
- Develop a plan that addresses personal strengths, needs,
and health risks.
NPH-H.5-8.7 HEALTH ADVOCACY
Students will demonstrate the ability to
advocate for personal, family, and community health.
- Analyze various communication methods to accurately express
health information and ideas.
- Express information and opinions about health issues.
- Identify barriers to effective communication of information,
ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issues.
- Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others
in making positive health choices.
- Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating
for healthy individuals, families, and schools.
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Grades 9-12
NPH-H.9-12.1 HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE
PREVENTION
Students will comprehend concepts related
to health promotion and disease prevention.
- Analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and
disease prevention.
- Describe the interrelationships of mental, emotional,
social, and physical health throughout adulthood.
- Explain the impact of personal health behaviors on the
functioning of body systems.
- Analyze how the family, peers, and community influence
the health of individuals.
- Analyze how the environment influences the health of the
community.
- Describe how to delay onset and reduce risks of potential
health problems during adulthood.
- Analyze how public health policies and government regulations
influence health promotion and disease prevention.
- Analyze how the prevention and control of health problems
are influenced by research and medical advances.
NPH-H.9-12.2 HEALTH INFORMATION, PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES
Students will demonstrate the ability to
access valid health information and health-promoting products
and services.
- Evaluate the validity of health information, products,
and services.
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate resources from home,
school, and community that provide valid health information.
- Evaluate factors that influence personal selection of
health products and services.
- Demonstrate the ability to access school and community
health services for self and others.
- Analyze the cost and accessibility of health care services.
- Analyze situations requiring professional health services.
NPH-H.9-12.3 REDUCING HEALTH RISKS
Students will demonstrate the ability to
practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
- Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing
health.
- Evaluate a personal health assessment to determine strategies
for health enhancement and risk reduction.
- Analyze the short-term and long-term consequences of safe,
risky and harmful behaviors.
- Develop strategies to improve or maintain personal, family
and community health.
- Develop injury prevention and management strategies for
personal, family, and community health.
- Demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.
- evaluate strategies to manage stress.
NPH-H.9-12.4 INFLUENCES ON HEALTH
Students will analyze the influence of culture,
media, technology, and other factors on health.
- Analyze how cultural diversity enriches and challenges
health behaviors.
- Evaluate the effect of media and other factors on personal,
family, and community health.
- Evaluate the impact of technology on personal, family,
and community health.
- Analyze how information from the community influences
health.
NPH-H.9-12.5 USING COMMUNICATION SKILLS
TO PROMOTE HEALTH
Students will demonstrate the ability to
use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
- Demonstrate skills for communicating effectively with
family, peers, and others.
- Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships.
- Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and
feelings.
- Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, and
respect of self and others.
- Demonstrate strategies for solving interpersonal conflicts
without harming self or others.
- Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills
to avoid potentially harmful situations.
- Analyze the possible causes of conflict in schools, families,
and communities.
- Demonstrate strategies used to prevent conflict.
NPH-H.9-12.6 SETTING GOALS FOR GOOD HEALTH
Students will demonstrate the ability to
use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize various strategies
when making decisions related to health needs and risks
of young adults.
- Analyze health concerns that require collaborative decision
making.
- Predict immediate and long-term impact of health decisions
on the individual, family, and community.
- Implement a plan for attaining a personal health goal.
- Evaluate progress toward achieving personal health goals.
- Formulate an effective plan for lifelong health.
NPH-H.9-12.7 HEALTH ADVOCACY
Students will demonstrate the ability to
advocate for personal, family, and community health.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of communication methods for
accurately expressing health information and ideas.
- Express information and opinions about health issues.
- Utilize strategies to overcome barriers when communicating
information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health
issues.
- Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others
in making positive health choices.
- Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating
for healthy communities.
- Demonstrate the ability to adapt health messages and communication
techniques to the characteristics of a particular audience.
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