GRADE 7 – HEALTH OVERVIEW The Health Education Program encompasses all relevant areas of health ‐ mental, social, emotional, and physical. The course will consist of methods for influencing positive changes in health related behavior by arming students with information to aid them in making wise decisions concerning their health. Seventh grade health will focus on personal health and communication, physical activity and healthy eating, sexual health, as well as alcohol, tobacco and other drug use as it aligns with the National Health Standards, which are as follows:
Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention. Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors. Students will demonstrate the ability at access valid information, products, and services. Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision‐making skills to enhance health. Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal‐setting skills to enhance health. Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health‐enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
The Common Core State Standards for speaking and listening and National Health Education Standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity—that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.
Students will prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. CCSS.ELA‐Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Students will integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. CCSS.ELA‐Literacy.CCRA.SL.2 Students will present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA‐Literacy.CCRA.SL.4 Students will make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. CCSS.ELA‐Literacy.CCRA.SL.5
Waterford Public Schools: K‐12 Health Curriculum
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