Grade 8 Health Wisconsin standards Standards

Implement an advocacy plan pertaining to a health issue.

Develop an advocacy plan to promote health.

Develop health-promoting strategies that support family or friends to make positive health choices.

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

Demonstrate the role of self-responsibility in enhancing health.

Explain the importance of self-responsibility for personal health behaviors.

Apply health-enhancing behaviors that maintain or improve the health of self and others.

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

Apply goal-setting skills to various health-related situations.

Identify additional steps to setting and achieving realistic health goals.

Apply goal-setting skills to health situations.

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

Assess the impact of a decision-making process on health-related situations.

Identify situations where effective decision-making skills are implemented.

Apply a decision-making process in various health-related situations.

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

Apply appropriate communication skills in various health-related settings.

Examine communication strategies in various health-related settings.

Examine and demonstrate communication skills that enhance health and avoid health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Apply models to analyze sources of information for validity and reliability.

Identify criteria for choosing accurate sources of information.

Demonstrate and apply strategies to access valid sources of health information.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

Examine impact of influences.

Examine how internal and external factors influence personal health behaviors.

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

Analyze the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Identify the components of health promotion and disease prevention.

Comprehend and apply concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.

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

Describe specific behaviors that can reduce or prevent injuries and communicable or chronic diseases. These may include but are not limited to: refraining from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; engaging in physical activity; demonstrating healthy eating; sexual behaviors; applying social behaviors to prevent or reduce violence; safety and related behaviors.

Describe the negative consequences of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Describe how family history can affect personal health.

Describe how physical and social environments can affect personal health.

Analyze the relationships between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Examine healthy behaviors and consequences related to a health issue.

Predict the outcomes of a variety of unhealthy behaviors.

Examine how external and internal factors can influence health behaviors.

Provide examples of how factors can interact to influence health behaviors.

Examine how one's family, culture, and peers influence one's own personal health behaviors.

Examine how media and technology influence one's own personal health behaviors.

Examine how one's values and beliefs influence one's own personal health behaviors.

Describe situations that require accurate health information.

Locate sources of valid health information from home, school, and community.

Describe criteria for evaluating resources.

Analyze the validity of information about health issues, products, and services.

Examine appropriate communication strategies.

Examine the outcomes of using effective and ineffective strategies of communication.

Demonstrate refusal and limit setting skills that avoid health risks.

Demonstrate effective conflict resolution skills.

Demonstrate ways, such as restorative justice practices, to manage or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.

Determine when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.

Demonstrate decision making in a health-related situation.

Predict the impact of each decision on self and others.

Analyze the outcome of a health-related decision.

Establish a baseline of personal health behaviors and health status.

Identify strategies and behaviors needed to maintain or improve health status.

Identify strategies that might be utilized to overcome barriers or setbacks.

Examine how personal health goals can be impacted by various abilities, priorities, and responsibilities that may change throughout the lifespan.

Develop goals to maintain or improve personal health status.

Assess the effectiveness of strategies to reach personal health goals.

Evaluate behaviors that maintain or improve the health of self and others. These may include but are not limited to: refraining from risky sexual behaviors; refraining from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; engaging in regular and varied physical activity; meal planning that leads to healthy eating; applying social behaviors to prevent or reduce violence; practicing safety-related behaviors in various complex settings; and appropriate use of the health care system.

Demonstrate health-enhancing practices and behaviors that help maintain or improve the health of self and others.

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

Develop an age-appropriate definition of advocacy.

Plan ways to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.

Incorporate accurate information as it relates to a health-enhancing position to advocate for self and others.

Discuss the barriers that could be involved in an advocacy effort.

Predict how an advocacy plan will influence and support the health status of others.

Apply a plan to advocate for a health issue for people that experience health disparities.

Defend a position relating to a health issue.

Describe ways to adapt health messages for different audiences.