Grade 6 Health Mississippi Standards

Understand positive and negative reinforcement and how they relate to decision-making.

Describe the benefits and threats of technological advances to healthy living.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Identify ways natural resources can impact human health.

Examine how to handle difficult interpersonal situations through effective communication.

Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.

Analyze how health education and promotion benefits individuals (e.g., reduces number of doctor visits, premature deaths, and chronic diseases).

Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Describe various communication methods that accurately express health opinions and issues.

Demonstrate ways to practice helpful behaviors and build health skills.

Explain and give examples of the use, misuse, and abuse of substances.

Investigate ways that indoor air quality can be improved in the classroom.

Employ the ability to encourage and support others in making healthy choices.

Discuss how body hygiene, posture, and one's self-image affect overall health.

Define the responsibility a community has to help its members maintain good health.

Identify forms of exercise that help us to be healthier.

Explore ways health promotion reduces health care costs.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Research current health promoting products and services.

Demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and products and services to enhance health.

Relate how information presented in the media affects the attitude of our population toward health related issues.

Demonstrate strategies to manage conflict in healthy ways.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.