Grade 7 Health Louisiana standards Standards

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

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

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

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

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 access valid information, products and services to enhance health.

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

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Describe interrelationships among physical, intellectual, emotional and social health.

Explain how emotional health (stress) impacts other dimensions of health.

Describe appropriate ways to express and deal with emotions and how this can impact other areas of personal health.

Describe the relationship between positive health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, disease, and premature death.

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.

Define HIV.

Explain and define abstinence.

Analyze high risk behaviors to determine their impact on wellness.

Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors (e.g., sexual abstinence, avoiding substance abuse, practicing good nutrition).

Describe the relationship between using alcohol and other drugs and health risk behaviors. (e.g., sexual activity, driving/riding while intoxicated, violence, etc.).

Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce risk and promote well-being.

Describe how family history and environment are related to the cause or prevention of disease.

Explain how abstinence prevents emotional and physical health risks.

Discuss the basic male and female reproductive anatomy and physiology.

Describe basic male and female reproductive body parts and their functions.

Define puberty.

Describe the influence of others on health beliefs, practices and behaviors.

Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

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

Define gender stereotypes in social relationship roles.

Recognize health care disparities of different cultures, races and ethnic groups in the community.

Analyze how media and technology influence personal and family health behaviors.

Assess ways in which various media influence buying decisions (e.g., health products, medicines, food).

Discuss the role of the media in supporting gender stereotypes in relationship roles.

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

Identify the difference between external and internal influences.

Discuss how individual values and beliefs affect personal decisions to engage in healthy and unhealthy behaviors (e.g., eating and exercising habits, engaging in sexual risk behaviors and choosing abstinence).

Recognize how external influences can affect an individual's judgment, self-control and behavior (e.g., substance abuse, peer pressure).

Utilize resources at home, school and community to access valid health information and services.

Explore validity, cost and safety of health products and services (e.g., diet pills, tanning beds, energy drinks, generic drugs).

Describe situations that may require professional health services.

Engage trusted adults at home, school and community in health issues.

Identify credible health-related websites.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, feelings and respect of self and others.

Use effective listening techniques when communicating with others (active listening).

Describe healthy ways to express affection, love, friendship and concern.

Explain the characterisitcs of a healthy and unhealthy social relationship.

Analyze the relationship between self-respect and healthy social relationships.

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

Identify techniques for approaching trusted adults.

Demonstrate skills for requesting assistance with health issues.

Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

Compare and contrast the steps for conflict resolution/negotiation.

Demonstrate skills to effectively resist pressure from peers to engage in unhealthy behaviors.

Demonstrate the use of conflict resolution models in interpersonal conflicts.

Exhibit characteristics needed to be a responsible friend and family member.

Identify methods for responding to problems of others with empathy and support.

Discuss how emotional health affects decision-making.

Analyze the impact of peer pressure on decision-making.

Determine barriers that can hinder healthy decision-making.

Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.

Apply use of a decision-making model in making a healthy decision (e.g., food choices, substance abuse, relationships, violence and abstinence) through role play and skits.

Predict the short- and long-term consequences of healthy and unhealthy choices (abstinence, sexual risk behaviors, alcohol and tobacco use, exercise, healthy eating).

Identify goals to adopt, maintain or improve a personal health practice.

Identify a health practice to improve.

Adopt a goal to improve a health practice (e.g., increase physical activity, increase time spent with people engaged in positive behaviors, increase healthful eating, practice honest ways to be successful in school, practice abstinence).

Create a journal to measure accomplishments toward a selected goal.

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

Identify common barriers to making healthy choices.

Problem-solve how to overcome obstacles to making healthy choices.

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.

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

Develop strategies to improve personal and family health (e.g., injury prevention, physical activity).

Analyze the risk of impulsive behaviors.

Analyze various communication methods to accurately express health ideas and opinions.

Identify ways that health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences.

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

Use accurate information to support a health-enhancing position on a topic (e.g., need for personal hygiene, healthful food choices at school, disease, genetic disorder).