grade 8 standards

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8th grade health

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

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

Communication

#1

• 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.

What does that mean?

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

Health concepts and influences

#2

• 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).

What does that mean?

Utilize the decisionmaking process to make a healthrelated decision.

Healthy Decsion making

#3

• Definition of Utilize: to make effective use of

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

What does that mean?

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

Healthy practices

#4

• Analyze: to examine and interpret

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

What does that mean?

now go back and draw a picture or symbol to represent (or describe) the standard. turn in when completed.