Grade 7 Health Mississippi Standards

Identify behaviors for effectively handling peer pressure and stress.

Distinguish among use, misuse, and abuse of substances.

Develop an action plan for achieving a personal health goal.

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

Give examples of communicable diseases and discuss transmission and methods of prevention.

Examine how to handle difficult interpersonal situations through effective communication.

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

Analyze how hygiene, posture, and self-image affect overall health.

Demonstrate various forms of effective communication.

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

Propose ways in which improving the environment can enhance physical, mental, and social health.

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

Explore technology and other resources to improve personal and family health.

Describe the influence of culture on health behaviors.

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

Describe the relationship between tobacco and alcohol use and how it affects the development of serious health problems.

Demonstrate an ability to influence others to become involved in healthy community projects.

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

Analyze how the media and other sources influence health behavior.

Demonstrate strategies to manage conflict in healthy ways.

Identify how a properly balanced diet and exercise influence healthy body weight.

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

List health professionals that provide education, counseling services, and treatment to prevent communicable disease.

Demonstrate practices of making safe choices.

Describe the effects of puberty on social and emotional behavior.

Apply strategies and skills needed to attain goals that will contribute to a healthy active lifestyle.

Critique sources of information regarding health products and services to determine if they are reliable or unreliable.

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

Demonstrate the ability to apply decision-making models to health issues and problems.