Grade 7 Health Arizona standards Standards

Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences

Tailoring Advocacy Message to Audience

Demonstrate how to work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools

Collective Advocacy

Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices

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

Personal Advocacy

Ability to Advocate for Health

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors

Personal Responsibility for Health

Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors

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

Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal

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

Health-Related Goal Setting

Assess personal health practices

Assessment of Health

Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health

Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision

Predict the potential 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 thoughtful decision-making process

Application of Decision-Making Skills to Health

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Influences on Health Decision Making

Use of Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Health

Identify ways to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others

Asking for Help

Identify effective conflict management or resolution strategies

Self Protection and Dealing with Conflict

Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Communication to Enhance Help

Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health

Locate valid and reliable health products and services

Describe situations that may require professional health services

Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health

Access valid health information from home, school, and community

Accessing Help

Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services

Knowledge of Sources of Help

Access to Health Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Health

Examine and explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention

Influence of Public Policy on Health

Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors

Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Internal Influences on Personal Health

Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health

Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors

Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors

Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors

Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents

External Influences on Personal Health

Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors

Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors

Understanding Healthy vs. Unhealthy Behaviors

Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health

Understanding Use of Health Care

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

Understanding Prevention of Injuries and Health Problems

Describe how family history can affect personal health

Analyze how physical activity contributes to disease prevention

Analyze how food provides energy and nutrients for growth and development, that nutrition requirements vary from person to person, and how food intake affects health

Analyze how the environment affects personal health

Understanding Personal Health

Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence

Understanding Multiple Dimensions of Health

Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health

Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts