Health Standards
Nutrition and Foods
Standard 2.0
Students will analyze factors that influence nutrition and food practices in
a multicultural society.
� Standard 2.1A
Inventories the influences on personal eating habits.
� Standard 2.1B
Identifies ways food satisfies psychological and social needs.
� Standard 2.3
Examines health concerns related to nutrition and food.
NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS:
NPH-H.5-8.1 HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease
prevention--
Explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and the
prevention of injury, illness, disease, and premature death.
NPH-H.5-8.3 REDUCING HEALTH RISKS
Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors
and reduce health risks--
Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health
behaviors.
Analyze a personal health assessment to determine health strengths and
risks.
Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal and family health.
NPH-H.5-8.6 SETTING GOALS FOR GOOD HEALTH
Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-
making skills to enhance health--
Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision- making process to health issues
and problems individually and collaboratively.
Predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self
and others.
Apply strategies and skills needed to attain personal health goals.
Describe how personal health goals are influenced by changing information,
abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.
Develop a plan that addresses personal strengths, needs, and health risks.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION OUTCOMES:
A Physically Educated Person:
KNOWS the implications of and the benefits from involvement in physical
activities
14.. . . understands that wellness involves more than being physically fit.
-Lindsay Pattermann-
