High School Health Rhode Island Standards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formulate an effective plan for optimal lifelong health.

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

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

Evaluate situations requiring professional health services.

Influence and support others in making positive health choices.

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

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

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

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

Evaluate opportunities for career choices in health.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

Develop and implement a solution to a researched health issue.

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

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

Analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease prevention.

Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships.

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

Evaluate the validity of health information, products and services.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

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

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

Analyze how information from the community influences health.

Analyze health concerns that require individuals to work together.

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

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

Explain requirements for entering and pursuing specific health careers.

Demonstrate healthy strategies used to prevent conflict.

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

Analyze how cultural diversity enriches and challenges health behaviors.

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

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

Research and evaluate strategies to manage stress in individuals.

Influence and support others in making positive health choices.

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

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

Design methods for accurately expressing health information and ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

Analyze situations requiring professional health services.

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

Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Access school and community health services for self and others.

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

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

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

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

Identify and demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.