Grade 8 Health Rhode Island standards Standards

Work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals, families and schools.

Influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Identify barriers to effective communication of information, ideas, feelings and opinions about health issues.

Analyze various communication methods needed to express health information and ideas accurately.

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

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

Develop a plan that addresses personal strengths, needs and health risks.

Apply strategies and skills needed to attain personal health goals.

Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self or others.

Analyze how health-related decisions are influenced by individuals, family or community values.

Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems individually and collaboratively.

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

Demonstrate strategies needed to manage conflict in healthy ways.

Analyze the possible causes of conflict among youth in schools and communities.

Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills needed to enhance health.

Demonstrate communication skills needed to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration and respect of self and others.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Describe how the behavior of family and peers affects interpersonal communication.

Demonstrate effective verbal & non-verbal communication skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Analyze how information from peers influences and affects health choices.

Analyze the influence of technology on personal or family health.

Analyze how positive and negative messages from media and other resources influence health behaviors.

Describe the influence of cultural beliefs on health behaviors and the use of health services.

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

Develop and apply appropriate ways of managing conflict and specific stressful situations.

Identify and demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

Develop injury prevention and management strategies for personal, family and community health.

Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal and family health.

Distinguish between safe and risky or harmful behaviors.

Analyze personal health habits to determine health strengths and risks.

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.

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

Explain roles played by different health providers.

Describe situations requiring professional health services.

Compare the costs and validity of health products.

Locate health products and services.

Analyze how media influences the selection of health information, products and services.

Utilize resources form home, school and community that provide valid health information.

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

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

Describe how lifestyle, family history, pathogens and other risk factors are related to the cause or prevention of disease and other health problems.

Explain how appropriate health care can prevent premature death and disability.

Describe ways to reduce risks related to early adolescent health problems.

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

Describe how family, peers and environment influence the health of adolescents.

Explain how health is influenced by the interaction of body systems.

Describe the interrelationship of mental, emotional, physical, social and physical health during adolescence.

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

Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as a foundation for a healthy life.