By the end of grade 2:
a. Is aware that there is a relationship between personal health behaviors and individual well being.

b. Reports signs of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during childhood.

c. Identifies basic body parts and simple functions of body systems.

d. Describes individual family health practices.

e. Demonstrates an awareness of physically, socially, and emotionally safe environments.

f. Identifies common health problems personally experienced by children.

g. Verbalizes health symptoms for early detection and treatment.

h. Identifies some of the ways childhood injuries and illnesses can be prevented and/or treated.

By the end of grade 5:

a. Describes relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well being.

b. Identifies indicators of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during childhood.

c. Describes the basic structure and functions of human body systems.

d. Describes how the family influences personal health.

e. Describes how physical, social, and emotional environments influence personal health.

f. Identifies common health problems of children.

g. Identifies health problems that should be detected and treated early.

h. Explains how childhood injuries and illnesses can be prevented or treated.

i. Understands the physical and emotional changes, which accompany human maturation, specifically the onset of puberty.

By the end of grade 8:
a. Explains the relationship between positive health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, disease, and premature death.

b. Describe the relationship of mental, emotional, social, and physical health during adolescence.

c. Explain how the functions of our body systems can influence our health.

d. Describe how family and peers influence the health of adolescents.

e. Analyze how environment and personal health are related.

f. Describes ways to reduce risks related to adolescent health problems.

g. Explains how appropriate health care can prevent premature death and disability.

h. Describes how lifestyle, family history, and risk factors are related to the cause and prevention of disease and other health problems.

By the end of grade 12:

a. Analyzes how behavior can influence health maintenance and disease prevention.

b. Describes the relationships of mental, emotional, social, and physical health throughout adulthood.

c. Explains the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems.

d. Analyzes how the family, peers, and community influence the health of individuals.

e. Analyzes how the environment influences the health of the community.

f. Describes how to delay the onset of and reduce the risks of potential health problems during adulthood.

g. Analyzes how public health policies and government regulations influence health promotion and disease prevention.

h. Analyzes how research and medical advances influence the prevention and control of health problem.

By the end of grade 2:

a. Demonstrates responsible health behaviors.

b. Identifies personal health needs.

c. Identifies safe and unsafe behaviors.

d. Demonstrates basic injury prevention and management strategies for personal health.

e. Demonstrates ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

f. Demonstrates ways to manage stress.

By the end of grade 5:

a. Identifies responsible health behaviors.

b. Identifies personal health needs.

c. Compares behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful.

d. Demonstrates strategies to improve or maintain personal health.

e. Develops injury prevention and management strategies for personal health.

f. Demonstrates ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

g. Applies skills to manage stress.

By the end of grade 8:

a. Explains the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.

b. Analyzes a personal health assessment to determine health strengths and risks.

c. Distinguishes between safe and risky or harmful behaviors in relationships.

d. Demonstrates strategies to improve or maintain personal and family health.

e. Develops injury prevention and management strategies for personal and family health.

f. Demonstrates ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

By the end of grade 12:

a. Analyzes the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

b. Evaluates the results of a personal health assessment to determine strategies for health enhancement and risk reduction.

c. Analyzes the short-term and long-term consequences of safe, and risky or harmful behaviors.

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

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

f. Demonstrates ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

g. Evaluates strategies to manage stress.

By the end of grade 2:
a. Categorizes basic verbal and non-verbal communication techniques.

b. Describes characteristics needed to be a responsible friend and family member.

c. Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

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

e. Demonstrates attentive listening skills to build and maintain healthy relationships.

f. Demonstrates refusal skills to enhance health.

g. Differentiates between negative and positive behaviors used in conflict situations with facilitation.

h. Demonstrates use of non-violent strategies to resolve conflicts.

By the end of grade 5:
a. Distinguishes between verbal and non-verbal communication.

b. Describes characteristics needed to be a responsible friend and family member.

c. Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

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

e. Demonstrates attentive listening skills to build and maintain healthy relationships.

f. Demonstrates refusal skills to enhance health.

g. Differentiates between negative and positive behaviors used in conflict situations.

h. Demonstrates non-violent strategies to resolve conflicts.

By the end of grade 8:
a. Demonstrates effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to enhance health.

b. Describes how the behavior of family and peers affects interpersonal communication.

c. Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

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

e. Demonstrates communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships.

f. Demonstrates refusal and negotiation skills to enhance health.

g. Analyzes the possible cause of conflict among youth in schools and communities.

h. Demonstrates strategies to manage conflict in healthy ways.

By the end of grade 12:
a. Demonstrates skills for communicating effectively with peers and others.

b. Analyzes how interpersonal communication affects relationships.

c. Demonstrates healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

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

e. Demonstrates strategies for solving interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.

f. Demonstrates refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to avoid potentially harmful situations.

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

h. Demonstrates strategies used to prevent conflict.

By the end of grade 2:

a. Uses a decision-making process involving health issues and problems.

b. Asks for assistance in making health-realted decisions and setting health goals.

c. Identifies outcomes of positive health decisions.

d. Sets personal health goals.

By the end of grade 5:

a. Demonstrates the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems.

b. Explains when to ask for assistance in making health-related decisions and setting health goals.

c. Predicts outcomes of positive health decisions.

d. Sets a personal health goal and tracks progress toward its achievement.

By the end of grade 8:

a. Demonstrates the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems individually and collaboratively.

b. Analyzes how health-related decisions are influenced by individual, family, and community values.

c. Predicts how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self and other.

e. Applies strategies and skills needed to attain personal health goals.

f. Describes how personal health goals are influenced by changing information, abilities, priorities, responsibilities, and cultural beliefs.

g. Develops a plan that addresses personal strengths, needs, and health risks.

By the end of grade 12:

a. Demonstrates the ability to utilize various strategies when making decisions related to health needs and risks of young adults.

b. Analyzes health concerns that require collaborative decision-making skills.

c. Predicts immediate and long-term impact of health decisions on the individual, family, and community.

d. Implements a plan for attaining a personal health goal.

e. Evaluates progress toward achieving personal health goals.

f. Formulates an effective plan for lifelong health.

By the end of grade 2:

a. Identifies sources of health information and ideas.

b. Expresses information and opinions about health issues.

c. Identifies community agencies that advocate for healthy individuals, families, and communities.

d. Makes positive health choices.

By the end of grade 5:

a. Describes a variety of methods to convey accurate health information and ideas.

b. Expresses information and opinions about health issues.

c. Identifies community agencies that advocate for healthy individuals, families, and communities.

d. Demonstrates the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

By the end of grade 8:

a. Analyzes various communication methods to accurately express health information and ideas.

b. Expresses information and opinions about health issues.

c. Identifies barriers to effective communication of information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issues.

d. Demonstrates the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

e. Demonstrates the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

By the end of grade 12:

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

b. Expresses information and opinions about health issues.

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

d. Demonstrates the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

e. Demonstrates the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

f. Demonstrates the ability to adapt health messages and communication techniques to the characteristics of a particular audience.