High School Health Washington Standards

Predict impact of consuming adequate or inadequate amounts of nutrients.

Analyze and describe the relationship between nutritional choices, physical activity, and chronic diseases.

Describe how to prevent occupational injuries.

Analyze potential dangers of sharing personal information through electronic media.

Summarize fertilization, fetal development, and childbirth.

Describe emotional, social, physical, and financial effects of being a teen or young adult parent.

Describe behaviors that impact reproductive health.

Explain the physical, social, mental, and emotional changes associated with being a young adult.

Describe how sexuality and sexual expression change throughout the life span.

Evaluate the effectiveness of abstinence, condoms, and other contraceptives in preventing pregnancy and STDs/HIV.

Understand that people can choose abstinence at different times in their lives.

Differentiate between affection, love, commitment, and sexual attraction.

Compare and contrast characteristics of healthy and unhealthy romantic and sexual relationships.

Examine laws and consequences related to sexual offenses, including when a minor is involved.

Identify laws and concerns related to sending or posting sexually explicit pictures or messages.

Assess self-esteem and determine its impact on personal dimensions of health.

Understand changes in self-esteem can occur as people mature.

Identify supportive services for people with eating disorders.

Identify physical and psychological responses to stressors.

Summarize strategies for coping with difficult emotions, including defense mechanisms.

Analyze strategies to prevent and respond to different types of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.

Compare and contrast emotional and mental and behavioral illness, mental well-being, and concurrent disorders.

Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people.

Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide.

Analyze why individuals choose to use or not use substances.

Differentiate classifications of substances.

Summarize short- and long-term effects of substance abuse on dimensions of health.

Analyze how addiction and dependency impact individuals, families, and society.

Understand how codependency relates to substance use and abuse.

Compare and contrast school, local, state, and federal laws related to substance possession and use.

Analyze personal dimensions of health and design a plan to balance health.

Analyze the impact of school rules and community and federal laws on beverage availability and choice.

Draw conclusions regarding how society, culture, and economics influence nutrition choices.

Compare how family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors influence safety and injury prevention practices and behaviors.

Evaluate societal influences on violence.

Evaluate how culture, media, society, and other people influence our perceptions of gender roles, sexuality, relationships, and sexual orientation.

Analyze factors that can affect the ability to give or recognize consent to sexual activity.

Compare and contrast the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on harassment, intimidation, and bullying.

Analyze prevention, lifestyle factors, and treatment of communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Assess personal risk factors and predict future health status.

Analyze how a variety of factors impact personal and community health.

Evaluate resources for accessing valid and reliable information, products, and services for healthy eating.

Analyze trends in portion size as compared to recommended serving sizes.

Identify local youth-friendly sexual health services.

Identify ways to access accurate information and resources for survivors of sexual offenses.

Describe laws related to accessing sexual health care services.

Explain why people with eating disorders need support services.

Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional and mental and behavioral health concerns.

Describe laws related to minors accessing mental health care.

Analyze validity of information on substance use.

Describe laws related to minors accessing substance abuse treatment.

Analyze valid and reliable information to prevent or treat substance dependency and addiction.

Create a resource that outlines where and how students can access valid and reliable health information, products, and services.

Demonstrate effective ways to communicate with a partner about healthy sexual decisions and consent.

Demonstrate effective communication skills to express emotions.

Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.

Cite evidence from Nutrition Facts labels useful for making informed and healthy choices.

Analyze impact of decisions related to bicycle, pedestrian, traffic, water, and recreation safety.

Explain the role hormones play in sexual behavior and decision-making.

Use a decision-making model to make a sexual health-related decision.

Predict potential short- and long-term outcomes of a personal health-related decision.

Apply strategies to overcome barriers to achieving a personal goal to improve healthy eating behaviors.

Predict how a drug-free lifestyle will support achievement of short- and long-term goals.

Implement strategies to achieve a personal health goal.

Demonstrate how to balance caloric intake with caloric expenditure to maintain, gain, or reduce weight in a healthy manner.

Design, monitor, and adjust a personal nutrition plan, considering cost, availability, access, nutritional value, balance, freshness, and culture.

Apply basic first aid skills.

Demonstrate CPR and AED procedures.

Demonstrate effective peer resistance, negotiation, and collaboration skills to avoid potentially violent situations.

Describe steps of testicular self-exam and the importance of breast self-awareness.

Demonstrate steps to using a condom correctly.

Understand importance of personal and social responsibility for sexual decisions.

Develop a personal stress management plan.

Collaborate with others to advocate for healthy eating at home, in school, or in the community.

Advocate for violence prevention.

Advocate for STD testing and treatment for sexually active youth.

Describe how to support someone who has symptoms of an eating disorder.

Advocate for ways to manage or resolve interpersonal conflict.

Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health.

Design a drug-free message for a community beyond school.

Beverages

Prevention

Analyzing Influences

Dimensions of Health

Safety

Puberty and Development

Treatment

Legal Consequences

Substance Use and Abuse

Use and Abuse

Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying

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

Anatomy, Reproduction, and Pregnancy

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

Food Groups and Nutrients

Disease Prevention

Washington State Laws

Injury Prevention

Sexual Health

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

Prevention

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

Violence Prevention

Disease Prevention

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

Label Literacy

Access Valid Information

Effects

Self-Identity

Decision-Making

Nutrition

Nutritional Planning

Stress Management

Caloric Intake and Expenditure

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

First Aid

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Social Emotional Health

Emotional, Mental, and Behavioral Health

Communication

Goal-Setting

Healthy Relationships

Self-Esteem

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

Wellness

Washington State Health Education K-12 LearningStandards:

Expressing Emotions

Body Image and Eating Disorders

Students will demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Safety

Training Principles and Knowledge

Engagement in Fitness Activities

Rules and Etiquette

Benefit of Physical Activity

Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

Movement Concepts

Challenge

Outdoor Pursuits

Self-Expression and Enjoyment

Individual Plan

Games and Sports

Movement Performance

Physical Activity for a Lifetime

Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

Social Interaction

Personal Responsibility

Strategies and Tactics

Physical Activity in the Community

Training Principles

Working with Others

Individual-Performance Activities

Students will apply knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance.

Engagement in Physical Activity

Students will recognize the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.

Health-Related Fitness

Demonstrate competency in activity-specific movement skills in two or more games and sports (invasion, net/wall, field/striking, target).

Refine activity-specific movement skills in two or more games and sports (invasion, net/wall, field/striking, target).

Demonstrate competency in activity-specific movement skills in two or more individual-performance activities.

Refine activity-specific movement skills in two or more individual performance activities.

Demonstrate competency in activity-specific movement skills in two or more outdoor pursuits.

Refine activity-specific movement skills in two or more outdoor pursuits.

Develop an offensive and a defensive strategy for the purpose of game play.

Create and apply multiple offensive and defensive strategies for game play.

Use movement concepts (force, motion, rotation) to analyze and improve performance of self or others in a selected skill.

Use movement concepts to develop a plan to improve advanced performance skill in a self-selected skill.

Assess critical elements and stages of learning a self-selected motor skill.

Create plan to improve performance of a self-selected motor skill.

Apply training principles and knowledge (progression, specificity, overload, reversibility, diminishing return) to a self-selected activity.

Apply training principles and knowledge to two or more self-selected activities.

Investigate relationship between physical activity, nutrition, and body composition.

Evaluate benefits of a physically active lifestyle as it relates to college or career productivity.

Investigate activities that can be pursued in the local environment.

Evaluate (according to benefits, social support, and participation requirements) activities that can be pursued in the local environment.

Evaluate risks and safety factors that might affect physical preferences throughout the life span.

Evaluate barriers to physical activity throughout the life span and promote strategies to overcome them.

Participate regularly in physical activity outside of the school day.

Create a plan, train for, and participate in a community event with a focus on physical activity.

Adjust intensity to keep heart rate in the target zone, calculate recovery heart rate, and use technology to monitor cardiorespiratory endurance.

Use types of flexibility exercises (static, dynamic).

Use types of muscular strength and muscular endurance exercises (isometric, concentric, eccentric).

Analyze recovery heart rate in relationship to fitness level and overall health.

Analyze types of muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility exercises for personal fitness development.

Explain training principles (overload, specificity, progression, reversibility, diminishing return, rest, and recovery) and how they relate to fitness planning.

Use training principles (overload, specificity, progression, reversibility, diminishing return, rest, and recovery) to design a personal workout.

Participate regularly in self-selected fitness activities outside of school.

Participate regularly in a variety of self-selected fitness activities outside of school.

Design and implement a personal fitness and nutrition plan (assessment scores, goals for improvement, plan of activities for improvement, log of activities to reach goals, timeline for improvement).

Design and implement a strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan that develops balance in opposing muscle groups (agonist and antagonist) and supports a healthy, active lifestyle to maintain or improve body composition.

Demonstrate intrinsic motivation by selecting or planning opportunities to participate in physical activity inside and outside of school.

Analyze barriers that prevent opportunities for physical activity inside and outside of school.

Examine the importance of etiquette in athletics and elite sports.

Examine moral and ethical conduct in specific competitive situations.

Solve problems and think critically when working with others in physical activity, both as an individual and in groups.

Assume a leadership role in a physical activity setting.

Describe the importance of treating individuals with dignity and respect during physical activity.

Demonstrate best practices for participating safely in physical activity and exercise.

Apply best practices for participating safely in physical activity and exercise.

Choose an appropriate level of challenge to experience success in a physical activity.

Choose an appropriate level of challenge to experience success in a self-selected physical activity.

Participate in a self-selected physical activity for self-expression and enjoyment.

Participate in a self-selected physical activity for self-expression and enjoyment.

Identify opportunities for social interaction in a self-selected physical activity.

Evaluate opportunities for social interaction and social support in a self-selected physical activity.