Updated while working at Shanghai American School:
Health Standards:
Standard No. 1 (S1): Students will comprehend concepts related to health
promotion and disease prevention.
Standard No. 2 (S2): Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid
health information and health-promoting products and services .
Standard No. 3 (S3): Students will demonstrate the ability to practice
health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
Standard No. 4 (S4): Students will analyze the influence of culture, media,
technology and other facts on health.
Standard No. 5 (S5): Students will demonstrate the ability to use
interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
Standard No. 6 (S6): Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-
setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
Standard No. 7 (S7): Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for
personal, family and community health.
S1: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to explain the relationship between positive health
behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, disease and premature death.
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to explain how health is influenced by the
interaction of body systems.
Benchmark 4
The learner will be able to describe how family and peers influence the
health of adolescents.
Benchmark 5
The learner will be able to describe ways to reduce risks related to
adolescent health problems (e.g. risk taking behaviors).
Benchmark 6
The learner will be able to explain how appropriate health care can prevent
premature death and disability
Benchmark 7
The learner will be able to describe how lifestyle, pathogens, family
history and other risk factors are related to the cause or prevention of
disease and other health problems (e.g. the impact of the use of alcohol and
tobacco on the body).
S2: Access Information
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to analyze how media influences the selection of
health information and products (e.g., analyze advertisements).
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to locate health
products and services.
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to describe situations requiring professional
health services.
S3: Practice Behaviors/Reduce Risks
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal health behaviors. (E.g. health risks associated
with poor food choices, use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana).
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to analyze a personal health assessment to
determine health strengths and risks. (e.g. journal writing regarding mental
and emotional status).
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to distinguish between safe and risky or harmful
behaviors in relationships.
Benchmark 5
The learner will be able to demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening
situations.
S4: Influence Culture, Media, Tech, etc
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to analyze how messages from media and other
sources influence health behaviors. (e.g. body image and magazines, TV
movies).
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to analyze how information from peers influences
health.
S5: Interpersonal Communication
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal
communication skills to enhance health. (e.g. communication do's and don'ts,
communication games).
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to describe how the behavior of family and peers
affects interpersonal communication. (e.g. family influence on development
of communication: authoritarian, passive, aggressive, assertive).
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants
and feelings (e.g. recognize emotions in self and others', EQ).
Benchmark 4
The learner will be able to demonstrate ways to communicate care,
consideration, and respect of self and others.
Benchmark 5
The learner will be able to demonstrate communication skills to build and
maintain healthy relationships.
Benchmark 6
The learner will be able to demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills to
enhance health. (e.g. role play refusal skills for the use of alcohol and
other drugs).
Benchmark 7
The learner will be able to demonstrate strategies to manage conflict in
healthy ways; (e.g., problem solving).
S6: Goal Setting/Decision Making
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-
making process to health issues and problems individually and
collaboratively; (e.g., apply decision-making model to health issues).
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to analyze how health-related decisions are
influenced by individuals, family, and community values.
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to predict how decisions regarding health behaviors
have consequences for self and others (e.g. consequences of eating
disorders, use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs).
S7: Advocate: Personal/Family/Community
Benchmark 1
The learner will be able to express information and opinions about health
issues.
Benchmark 2
The learner will be able to identify barriers to effective communication of
information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issues.
Benchmark 3
The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to influence and support
others in making positive health choices; (e.g., self-evaluation, journal,
reflection).
Benchmark 4
The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively
when advocating for healthy individuals, families, and schools.
When this Tobacco WebQuest was created, I had written the following:
There are many standards to choose from as we are in the middle of a
curriculum review cycle in Physical and Health Education here at the
American International School � Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. That being stated, I
will include the standards from the;
� National Association for Sport & Physical Education (NASPE)
� National Health Education Standards
� AIS-R Physical & Health Education Standards 1998
NASPE STANDARDS - National Standards for Physical Education
(http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/natl_health_education_standards.html)
Standard 4: Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical
fitness.
Standard 5: Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects
self and others in physical activity settings.
The following standards are �cited from the Pre-publication document� of the
2006 Revision of the �National Health Education Standards, K-12. American
Cancer Society. December 2005 � April 2006.� They can be found at the
following link;
http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/pdf_files/standards.pdf
Standard 1 � Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion
and disease prevention to enhance health.
Standard 2 � Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture,
media, technology and other factors on health behaviors.
Standard 3 � Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid
information and products and services to enhance health.
Standard 4 � Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal
communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Standard 5 - Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision making
skills to enhance health.
Standard 6 � Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal setting
skills to enhance health.
Standard 7 - Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-
enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce risks.
Standard 8 - Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal,
family and community health.
AIS-R Health Education Belief Statements & Standards
BELIEF STATEMENTS
Students should be given the opportunity and the skills to develop physical,
social, emotional, and intellectual well being in all relationships.
Students benefit from the integration of health throughout the curriculum.
Students must understand their roles as responsible family and community
members.
STANDARDS
PE/Health Standard 2 - Acquires knowledge and skills necessary to maintain a
healthy life: recognize patterns of growth and development, reduce health
risks, and live safely.
PE/Health Standard 3 - Analyzes and evaluates the impact of real-life
influences on Health.
PE/Health Standard 4 - The student effectively analyzes health and safety
information to develop health and fitness plans based on life goals.
