Health I - Standards & Practices 

Unit 1: Introduction to Wellness Standards & Practices 

Practice 2- Self-Management and Goal Setting 

• Assess health practices and overall health status across multiple dimensions of wellness (e.g., physical, emotional, financial, cultural, sexual, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, environmental, and social).  [HPE]

• Set personal short- and long-term mental and emotional health-related goals and create and execute a plan for monitoring progress. [HPE; SE] 

• Develop a plan and implement strategies based on an identified need or want to attain a goal that improves physical health.  [HPE]

• Discuss the benefits of a physically active lifestyle across multiple dimensions of health and across a person’s lifespan.  [HPE]

• Create a goal and plan for participating in physical activity to maintain or improve health and monitor progress. [PE] 

• Demonstrate how to comparison shop for foods, including comparing nutrient density, unit pricing, food packaging, and prices of foods in various forms. [HE]

• Apply coping and stress management techniques to manage a variety of stressors (i.e., school, personal life, relationships) and create a long-term plan for stress management.  [HPE; SE]

Practice 3- Social Awareness, Relationships, and Communication Skills 

• Appropriately resolve interpersonal conflicts in a variety of settings (e.g., school, family, work, community, and personal relationships).  [HPE; SE]

• Demonstrate empathy (e.g., active listening, withholding judgment, compassion) toward others. [HPE; SE]

• Demonstrate communication skills that account for the perspective of others while allowing for active and effective social engagement.  [HPE; SE]

Practice 6- Information and Resource Seeking 

• Demonstrate how to access valid information and resources to help or support someone else (e.g., who is being bullied or harassed or is a survivor of sexual abuse, incest, rape, sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, gender-based violence). [HPE; SE]

Unit 3: Human Development & Sexuality Part 1 Standards & Practices 

Practice 1- Decision-Making and Problem-Solving 

• Demonstrate the ability to apply an effective decision-making process in situations related to sexual activity and sexual health. [HE]

• Analyze factors that contribute to behaviors that increase the risk of pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.  [HE]

• Explain the importance of STI (including HIV) testing and counseling if sexually active on short- and long-term health, identify where to get tested, and why it is important to proactively discuss STI status with a sexual partner.  [HE]

• Evaluate readiness, options, and their respective consequences regarding sexual activity in consensual relationships including abstinence, postponing sexual intercourse, engaging in safe sex practices (e.g., using condoms and other barriers, using birth control). [HE]

• Explain age of consent laws and why it is an individual’s responsibility to obtain consent, verify that all sexual contact is consensual, recognize that consent must be asked for and verbally given, that it cannot be given if under the influence, and that it can be taken away at any point (i.e., someone can say yes and change their mind, or say yes to certain things but not others). [HE]

Practice 7- Self-Advocacy and Health Promotion 

• Discuss how to foster empathy, inclusiveness, and respect around issues related to sexuality (such as sexual activity, sexual abstinence, sexual orientation), gender expression, and gender identity. [HPE; SE]