Standard 2: Comprehensive Health and Physical Education

 

Mission: .Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social and emotional wellness.

 

 

Standard 2.2 Integrated Skills

All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

 

Big Idea: The use of critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, leadership and communication skills are essential to making informed personal, family and community health decisions.

2.2 A Communication

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- How do you know whether or not health information is accurate?
- How do I learn to stand for and communicate my beliefs to others without alienating them?
- Making good health decisions requires the ability to access and evaluate reliable resources.
- Effective communication skills enhance a person’s ability to express and defend their beliefs.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Use appropriate research methodology to investigate a health problem or issue.

 
2. Develop, present, and evaluate a multimedia health presentation and adapt it to address the needs and interests of varying audiences.  
3. Teach others how to use communication skills, including refusal, negotiation, and assertiveness.  
4. Employ strategies to improve communication and listening skills and assess their effectiveness.  
5. Evaluate the economic, political, social, and aesthetic impacts of health messages found in literature, art, music, theater, and television.  

2.2 B Decision Making

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-Why might educated people make poor health decisions?
-How do I overcome negative influences when making decisions about my personal health?
-Decision-making can be affected by a variety of influences that may not be in a person’s best interest.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Demonstrate and evaluate the use of decision making skills.

 
2. Evaluate factors that influence major health decisions and predict how those factors will change or conflict at various life stages.  
3. Use reliable and valid health information to assess social situations and conditions that impact health and safety.  
4. Analyze the use of ethics and personal values when making decisions.  
5. Critique significant health decisions and debate the choices made.  

2.2 C Planning and Goal Setting

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-In order to achieve lifetime wellness, what should I plan for and what should I just let happen? -Developing and implementing a plan to reach realistic wellness goals increases the likelihood of reaching those goals.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Appraise individual and family needs in order to achieve and maintain wellness and design a plan for lifelong wellness.

 
2. Evaluate how family, peers, healthcare providers, and the community support or hinder the achievement of a wellness plan.

2.2 D Character Development

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-How are character and health related? What aspects of our character can be changed?
-To what extent do outside influences shape values?
-Character can be developed and supported through individual and group activities, the influence of positive role models and involvement in community service.
-Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Demonstrate character based on core ethical values.

 
2. Analyze how role models, and the core ethical values they represent, influence society.  
3. Analyze the impact of community or public service on individual and community core ethical values.

2.2 E Leadership, Advocacy and Service

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-How can you inspire others to address health issues? -Leadership and advocacy to promote personal and community wellness can impact the immediate community and society as a whole.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Assess personal and group contributions and strengths that lead to the achievement of goals and tasks.

 
2. Evaluate personal participation as both a leader and follower.  
3. Discuss factors that influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and employ motivational techniques to enhance group productivity.  
4. Evaluate a group’s ability to be respectful, supportive, and adherent to codes of conduct.  
5. Develop and articulate the group’s goals, shared values, vision, and work plan.  
6. Plan, implement, and evaluate activities to benefit a health organization, cause, or issue.  
7. Assess community awareness and understanding about a local, state, national, or international health issue

2.2 F Health Services and Careers

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

-Where do I go to access information about good health and fitness services? -There are numerous health and fitness programs available that provide a variety of services. Not all are created equal.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:

1. Access health and fitness services, programs, and resources and evaluate them for cost, availability, accessibility, benefits, and accreditation.

 
2. Analyze the preparation, licensing, and responsibilities of wellness and fitness professionals.  
3. Compare and contrast health insurance and reimbursement plans.

 

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