grade 8 standards

8th grade health

Get to know your standards.

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I can follow classroom expectations. I can describe the health standards.

Communication

#1

Communicate about a health-related topic to various audiences by accessing and analyzing the validity of provided health information, products, and professional services.

What does that mean?

• Health-related topics include the things we will talk about this year! Such as infectious diseases, mental health, nutrition, sexual health, vaccines, pandemics, self-care, therapy, alcohol, drugs, and so on.
• Audiences could include anyone that is not yourself.
• Communication is how you present the information. It could be typed, written, drawn, presented, recorded.

#2

Health concepts and influences

Describe how different health behaviors and influences affect mental, emotional, physical, and social health in adolescence.

What does that mean?

• Health behaviors: actions and mannerisms made by individuals or systems that affect health.
• Types of Health Behaviors: diet, sleep, nutrition, excersize, etc.
• Types of influences that affect health: friends, family, media, society, school, etc.
• Adolescence: the period following the start of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult (13-19 years old).

Healthy Decsion making

#3

Utilize the decisionmaking process to make a healthrelated decision.

What does that mean?

• Definition of Utilize: to make effective use of

• There are 6 steps in the decision-making model.

#4

Healthy practices

Analyze health behaviors to improve health where one can assume responsibility for oneself.

What does that mean?

• Analyze: to examine and interpret

• Being responsible for yourself means you are in charge of making your OWN decisions.

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