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| Mental/Emotional Health (ME) |
- Develop an understanding of self and others and explore how this contributes to self-identity and self esteem
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- Identify and communicate feelings using “I” statements
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- Evaluate and understand how emotions, values, and behaviors contribute to one’s level of responsibility
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- Identify appropriate ways for people to meet their mental, socials, and emotional needs (Maslow)
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- Develop awareness of relationship between mental, emotional, and social health and how it is impacted by personal choices (nutrition, fitness, stress, disease, environment)
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- Identify examples of positive and negative peer pressure
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- Apply decision making process to peer pressure situations, including taking responsibility for passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors and their consequences
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- Understand the positive and negative reactions to stress and apply stress management techniques that contribute to well-being
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- Describe the stages of grieving associated with loss and trauma
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- Understand that anger is a secondary emotion and identify and develop healthy strategies to handle anger
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- Recognize signs of depression and suicidality, and identify available treatment
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- Define addictive, compulsive, and obsessive behaviors and describe the symptoms, effects, and treatments
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- Identify community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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| Family/Social/Interpersonal Health (FSI) |
- Identify various family structures, including differing roles and responsibilities of each member
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- Recognize and describe family, community, and peer influences
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- Identify characteristics of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships (family, friends, love interests, acquaintances, strangers)
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- Recognize gender role stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, bullying and harassment
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- Identify domestic violence, dating violence, and characteristics of controlling behaviors
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- Demonstrate assertive communication as opposed to passive and aggressive
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- Identify and demonstrate conflict resolution strategies
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- Demonstrate refusal and resistance skills
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- Identify community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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| Injury/Disease Prevention (Substance Use/Safety) (ID) |
- Identify personal and interpersonal behaviors in daily life that may present a risk to health or safety
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- Identify and differentiate between common communicable and chronic diseases
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- Identify and explain the potential long term effects of life style choices and family health history as it relates to chronic illnesses
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- Identify causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of communicable diseases, including, STIs/HIV, other current communicable concerns (handwashing, immunizations, life styles, and environment factors)
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- Identify personal safety strategies that prevent injuries to self and others (proper safety equipment and behaviors)
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- Understand first aid procedures for bleeding, breathing, poisoning, and weather related illness/injury
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- Distinguish between use and abuse of drugs (OTCs, alcohol, tobacco, illegal, and current drug trends)
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- Identify and classify different kinds of drugs and their effects on the body’s systems, including the brain
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- Understand why experimental and/or recreational use of drugs is dangerous
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- Recognize hazards to self, family, school, and community associated with drug use misuse, and abuse
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- Demonstrate appropriate decision making and resistance skills to avoid drug misuse/abuse
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- Identify fun, safe, and legal activities that fulfill the same needs met by drug use
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- Identify community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers.
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| Community/Consumer/Environmental Health (CCE) |
- Analyze media and its impact on emotions, thoughts, and actions (such as stereotypes, body image, sexuality, violence, etc.)
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- Evaluate the claims of various health related products and services as they apply to decision making
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- Know the Alaska Good Samaritan Law
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- Understand and practice personal internet safety (disclosing personal information, chat room dangers, cyber bullying)
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- Identify current global health issues and our response to them and potential impact on our health
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- Identify home, school, and community service needs and opportunities to participate.
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- Identify age-appropriate community health resources and agencies and become familiar with various related careers
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| Nutrition/Fitness |
- Understand and apply the concepts of moderation, balance, and variety according to the Food Guide Pyramid
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- Compare and evaluate food labels for nutritional value
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- Recognize the difference between foods that are nutritionally dense and those with empty calories
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- Recognize the nutritional diversity of various social, cultural, and ethnic groups
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- Identify various diet choices, fads and media influences and their health implications
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- Define eating disorders and describe symptoms, effects, and treatments (over-eating, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, obesity)
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- Understand how to balance caloric needs based on personal energy output
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- Describe the benefits of daily physical activity
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- Understand the risks of performance enhancing drugs
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- Identify community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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| Growth and Development/Hygiene (GH) |
- Understand the impact of regular health care examinations, proper grooming, sleep, and physical activity on health
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- Describe cognitive, social, emotional, and physical developments which occur during puberty and adolescence
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- Explain why physical maturity is reached earlier than the cognitive and social maturity necessary for the development of healthy relationships
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- Understand the importance of abstinence and pregnancy prevention methods, and the impact of teenage pregnancy
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- Review the male and female reproductive systems
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- Identify community resources and agencies and become familiar with various health related careers
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