High School Health Rhode Island Standards

Evaluate community health services and systems currently in place and make recommendations for improving those systems and services.

Work cooperatively when advocating for a healthy environment and other issues.

Influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Adapt health messages and techniques to the characteristics of a particular audience.

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, community and environmental health.

Formulate an effective plan for optimal lifelong health.

Design, evaluate and implement a plan for attaining a personal health goal.

Evaluate different strategies to use when making decisions related to the health needs and risks of young adults.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

Apply strategies to a selected situation that facilitate effective communication among individuals or groups.

Evaluate the effectiveness of communication methods for accurately expressing health information and ideas.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Develop and implement a solution to a researched health issue.

Research a school or community health issue resulting from the influence of culture, media, technology and other factors.

Students will analyze the influence of culture, media, technology and other factors on health.

Research and evaluate strategies to manage stress in individuals and groups within the family, in school, work and/or social situations.

Develop strategies to reduce a health-threatening situation in the community.

Evaluate injury prevention and management strategies for personal, family, workplace and community health.

Evaluate the effect of responsible health behaviors on self, others and community.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Analyze the educational requirements, demands, rewards and benefits of a career in health services.

Evaluate opportunities for career choices in health.

Evaluate situations requiring professional health services.

Evaluate all factors that influence personal selection of health products and services in the community.

Evaluate resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information for self and others.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and health promoting products and services.

Analyze how public health policies, government regulations and public pressure influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Describe how to delay onset and reduce risks of potential life-long health problems.

Analyze how the family, peers, community and environment influence public health.

Analyze the interrelationships of mental, emotional, social and physical health throughout life.

Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as a foundation for a healthy life.

Work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

Influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Utilize strategies to overcome barriers when communicating information, ideas, feelings and opinions about health issues.

Design methods for accurately expressing health information and ideas.

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, community and environmental health.

Compare and contrast a variety of plans that address personal strengths, needs and health risks.

Describe how personal health goals are influenced by changes in information, abilities, priorities and responsibilities.

Predict immediate and long-term impact of health decisions on the individual family and community.

Analyze health concerns that require individuals to work together.

Analyze the ability to use different strategies when making decisions related to health needs and risks of young adults.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate healthy strategies used to prevent conflict.

Analyze the possible causes of conflict in schools, families and communities.

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation and collaboration skills needed to avoid potentially-harmful situations.

Demonstrate strategies for solving interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.

Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration and respect of self and others.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships.

Demonstrate skills for communicating effectively with family, peers and others.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Analyze how information from the community influences health.

Evaluate the impact of technology on personal, family and community health.

Evaluate the effect of media and other factors on personal, family and community health.

Analyze how cultural diversity enriches and challenges health behaviors.

Students will analyze the influence of culture, media, technology and other factors on health.

Research and evaluate strategies to manage stress in individuals.

Identify and demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

Develop injury prevention and management strategies for personal, family and community health.

Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal, family and community health.

Analyze the short-term and long-term consequences of safe, risky and harmful behaviors.

Evaluate personal health habits to determine strategies for health enhancement and risk reduction.

Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Explain requirements for entering and pursuing specific health careers.

Analyze situations requiring professional health services.

Analyze the cost and availability of health care products and services for individuals.

Access school and community health services for self and others.

Evaluate media influences on the selection of health information and products.

Analyze resources from home school and community that provide valid health information.

Evaluate the validity of health information, products and services.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and health promoting products and services.

Analyze how the family, peers, community and environment influence the health of individuals.

Analyze the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems.

Describe the interrelationships of mental, emotional, social and physical health throughout young adulthood.

Analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease prevention.

Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as a foundation for a healthy life.