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.
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Standard 2.4 Human Relationships and Sexuality
All students will learn the physical, social, and emotional aspects
of human relationships and sexuality and apply these concepts to
support a healthy, active lifestyle.
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Big Idea:
Understanding the various aspects of human relationships and
sexuality assists in making good choices about healthy living. |
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2.4 A
Relationships |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
- How do you know when the time is right for you to become sexually
active?
- Why does the United States have such a high incidence of
unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections?
- What determines a person’s sexual orientation? |
- External pressures and opportunities that present themselves may
influence a person to become sexually active.
- Learning about sexuality and discussing sexual issues is critical
for sexual health, but is a sensitive and challenging process.
- There are many additional challenges that confront those who are
not heterosexual. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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By the end of Grade 12: |
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1. Appraise
internal and external influences and pressures to become sexually active and
demonstrate strategies to resist those pressures. |
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2. Critique
behaviors that place one at greater risk for HIV/AIDS, STDs, and unintended
pregnancy. |
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3. Analyze factors
that influence the choice, use, and effectiveness of contraception, risk
reduction, or risk elimination strategies. |
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4.
Predict how
cultural and religious beliefs, popular trends and fads, and current and
emerging technological advances influence sexuality and reproductive health. |
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5.
Investigate current and emerging
topics related to sexual orientation. |
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6.
Investigate
female and male reproductive and sexual health issues and discuss the
importance of education and preventive healthcare (e.g., breast/testicular
exam). |
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2.4 C Pregnancy
and Childbirth |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- How do you know when you are ready to have a child? |
- Raising a child requires physical, economic, emotional, social and
intellectual commitment.
- Prenatal care has a direct impact on the delivery and long-term
health of the child. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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By the end of Grade 12: |
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1.
Compare and contrast embryonic and fetal development in single
and multiple pregnancies. |
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2.
Describe the stages of labor and childbirth and compare
childbirth options. |
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3.
Analyze the physical and emotional changes that occur during each
trimester of pregnancy and postpartum. |
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4.
Compare and contrast
pregnancy options.
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5. Discuss physical, emotional,
social, cultural, religious, and legal issues related to pregnancy termination. |
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6. Investigate
the relationship between prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs,
infections, and environmental hazards and the incidence of fetal alcohol
syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, and disabilities. |
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7. Analyze the physical, economic, emotional,
social, intellectual, and cultural demands of raising a child. |
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8. Assess and evaluate
parenting strategies used at various stages of child development. |
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9. Investigate the legal rights and responsibilities of teen
mothers and fathers. |
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10. Discuss factors that influence the decision to have or to adopt a
child. |
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11. Analyze trends in teen pregnancy rates,
teen births, and out-of-wedlock births, considering shifts in marriage
patterns, sexual norms, contraceptive
practices, the availability of abortion,
and the size and composition of the teen population. |
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