Grade 6 Health Missouri standards Standards

Present different opinions and arguments about the effects of TAOD on individuals, family, and society.

Differentiate among various types of drugs and their effect upon the body including the following: how the drug enters the body; how the drug interacts with body chemistry.

Classify drugs based on their effect on the body (e.g., stimulant, depressant, hallucinogen, narcotic).

Substance Use vs. Non-Use

Differentiate between over the counter (OTC) and prescription drugs, their purpose, precautions and guidelines for use.

Purpose and Guidelines for Prescription, OTC Drugs and Natural Substances

Describe the short and long-term effects of performance enhancing drugs.

Safe and Unsafe Substances

Substance Education

Investigate the community agencies that provide water safety courses.

Water-Related Emergencies

Apply concepts about weather safety (recognize and attend to changing conditions), exercise precautions during activities, and follow appropriate safety rules and use of equipment.

Activity Related Injuries and Environmental Conditions

Recognize basic aid techniques that help save lives, reduce the severity of an injury and enhance recovery.

First Aid Procedures

Injury Prevention and Safety

Explain and discuss the relationship between HIV and AIDS.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Education

Locate , select, and organize information about non-communicable diseases that may impact adolescents such as diabetes, asthma, joint disease, cancer, mental disorder).

Adolescent Health Issues and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Analyze information about the transmission and prevention of communicable diseases.

Types of Pathogens and Transmission

Identify the stages of disease progression (e.g., incubation).

Body Defenses and Recovery

Disease Prevention and Control

Risk Assessment and Reduction

Formulate a personal and school-wide plan(s) to address and reduce bullying.

Harassment/Bullying and Violence Prevention

Describe positive stress management skills to reduce stress related problems.

Stress Management and Coping Skills

Evaluate current assets (positive influences in one's life) and determine ways to enhance those qualities.

Goal Setting and Asset Development

Apply and assess conflict/mediation strategies to a variety of conflict situations.

Refusal/Assertive Skills and Conflict Resolution

Recognize that life management skills (e.g., stress management, goal setting, decision making, assertive behavior, resisting peer pressure, and conflict resolution) can be applied to personal situations that adolescents encounter.

Decision Making and Problem Solving

Life Management Skills

Identify and explore health-related careers.

Recognize how the collaboration efforts of individuals, communities, and government affect the health of a community (e.g., recycling effort, pollution centers.

Community Services/Careers

Recognize that fads, quackery, and advertising can influence health behaviors and practices.

Media Influence on Health Habits and Decisions

Consumer Health and Safety

Identify allergy information on food labels.

Food Labels

Discuss the misconceptions projected by society in regard to body image.

Balance, Variety and Moderation

Describe and differentiate the contribution specific nutrients make towards growth repair, and cellular needs of the body:fats provide the body with a stored form of energy, warmth and insulation for body organs; carbohydrates provides the body with an immediate source of energy; proteins help the body grow, make muscles strong and repair body tissues; vitamins and minerals help to release energy and help the body fight infections making strong bones and teeth.

Essential Nutrients and Food Groupings

Nutrition

Compare and contrast factors that can affect growth and development which one can alter, enhance, or adapt (e.g., heredity, family, environment, physical activity, hormones, disease).

Growth and Development

Identify various health needs during adolescence (e.g., mental, emotional, social, and physical, hygiene).

Preventive Care

Identify body changes during puberty and proper hygiene practices (e.g., acne).

Personal Health

Personal and Family Health

Health Maintenance and Enhancement

Model healthy communication skills through exchange of information, questions, and ideas while recognizing the perspective of others.

Describe how to constructively manage feelings caused by disappointment, stress, separation or loss.

Communication Skills

Evaluate ideas and perspectives regarding the influence that family, friends, and culture have on health choices and behaviors during adolescence.

Differentiate between negative and positive peer pressure and discuss reversal techniques.

Influence of Family and Peers

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Label the major components (i.e., kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra) and functions of the urinary/excretory system (e.g., removes liquid waste from the body).

Lymphatic-Immune System

Describe how hormones are responsible for the development of secondary sex characteristics and for the production and release of reproductive cells, allowing the opportunity for fertilization.

Reproductive System

Describe how the endocrine system affects all other body systems.

Endocrine System

Identify the function of each organ in the digestive system (e.g., stomach-digestive juices, pancreas-insulin, gall bladder-storage of bile, liver-removes toxins, small intestines-absorbs nutrients, large intestines-removes solid waste) as it relates to overall health.

Digestive System

Distinguish between the CNS and PNS (Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System.

Investigate how environment affects learning.

Nervous System

Illustrate air flow through the respiratory system and it's relationship to the circulatory system.

Respiratory System

Differentiate among the types of joints in the skeletal system (e.g., ball and socket, hinge, gliding, pivot, moveable, and immovable).

Skeletal System

Classify the three different types of muscle tissue (smooth, cardiac, skeletal) and differentiate between voluntary and involuntary muscle movement.

Muscular System

Structure and Functions of the Body

Functions and Interrelationships of Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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