High School Health Mississippi Standards

Explain ways to promote vehicle safety, including regular use of seat belts for all ages.

Describe behaviors that promote home safety.

Summarize how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to another.

Identify popular types of deceptive advertising and product fraud.

State causes, signs, and control of noninfectious diseases.

Demonstrate ways to intervene and help a drug-dependent friend.

Define the role of the family in the transmission of values, attitudes, behavior, personalities, and responsibilities of its members.

Name the physical, mental, and emotional changes that happen during adolescence and state how these changes affect identity and interpersonal relationships.

Explain the physical and psychological benefits of exercise.

Identify ways to cope with death and dying.

Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals.

Discover the importance of fitness.

Summarize how responsible food choices lead to nutritional health.

Personal and Consumer Health

Identify various genetic and environmental birth defects.

Determine how pollution, natural disasters, over-population, and community violence affect our environmental health.

Identify the activities of agencies that protect the consumer.

Summarize the health hazards of alcohol.

Name the different kinds of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors.

Explain the impact of alcohol on alcoholics, their families, and society.

List career opportunities in health.

Describe organizations and services that assist the community and individuals in health promotion.

Examine the aging process from adulthood through death.

Substance Abuse Prevention

Describe the stages of the birth process.

Explain factors that may cause a family system to break down (to include spousal and child abuse.).

Identify community health-care agencies, health careers, and the importance of family medical records.

Disease Prevention and Control

Define functional and organic mental disorders and state controls for each.

Safety and First Aid

Human Growth and Development

Describe government agencies that protect the environment.

Examine health practices to be considered before, during, and after pregnancy.

Recognize dangerous situations, including rape, assault, misuse of social networking, and gang-related activities, and how to avoid them.

Identify, assess, and learn to respond to emergency situations.

Describe ways to prepare for natural disasters in the community.

Recognize medical fraud in the marketplace.

Develop refusal skills for all forms of drugs and inhalants.

Discuss various types of inhalants and identify dangers associated with the use of inhalants.

Describe elements that healthy families have in common and ways to maintain family health.

Discuss refusal and intervention skills.

Identify basic safety rules that help prevent accidents at work and school.

Describe why the family is the basic social unit of society.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors that contribute to positive mental health.

Develop a regular plan of exercise using the four parts of physical fitness and two types of exercise.

Identify available resources for treatment of mental illness.

Define a value system and identify the relationship of values to actions.

Explain the types, prevention, and treatments for diabetes, arthritis, and other chronic diseases including those requiring, long-term care.

Describe the transmission, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of communicable diseases.

Describe long-term effects of tobacco use and the dangers of smoking.

Describe ways to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Recognize recreational-related injuries and how to prevent them.

Trace developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

Identify strategies for choosing abstinence when faced with sexual pressures.

Describe how stress influences mental health.

Create a daily meal plan for students' own families and calculate the number of calories.

Explain how medicines benefit the life of human beings.

Identify the short- and long-term effects of alcohol on the body.

Examine costs and options for paying for health care services.

Define health and list characteristics of a healthy person.

Explain how alcohol and drugs can increase the vulnerability to unwanted sexual advances.

Identify the tasks and characteristics of adulthood.

Identify six classes of nutrients and describe their functions in the human body.

Explain how environment affects people and how people affect the environment.

Describe the function of the immune system.

Describe how individuals can help reduce the misuse and abuse of drugs.

Family/Social Health

Nutrition and Fitness

Describe the warning signs of cancer and the ways to reduce personal risk, including breast and/or testicular cancer.

Mental Health

Identify qualities that are important in close friends.

Evaluate the implications of modern technology on societal health.

Recognize the causes, transfer, and control of common communicable diseases.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal setting and decision making skills to enhance health.

Recognize the ways to prevent HIV infection and STDs.

Identify warning signs of suicide and demonstrate intervention strategies.

Discuss conflict-resolution styles and components of communication that can aid in resolving conflicts.

Describe the side effects of drugs and how drugs are commonly abused.

Identify physical, mental, and emotional changes that occur from childhood through adolescence.

Discuss and demonstrate procedures for emergency situations.

Define the role heredity plays in determining physical traits and distinguish between dominant and recessive genes.

Develop skills needed to achieve lifetime fitness.

Analyze the influences of different cultural beliefs on health behaviors.

Develop a stress management plan.

State good personal hygiene habits, including dental, skin, hair, ear, eye, and nail care.

Explain the process of human reproduction from conception to birth.

Explain the importance of family medical records.

Illustrate the health hazards of inhalants.

Examine the health hazards of tobacco.

Identify the pathogens that cause communicable disease and how they are transmitted.

Identify the importance of conserving natural resources and the green movement.

Trace the path of food through the digestive system.

Identify the harmful physiological and psychological effects of stress.

Explain the organization of MyPlate.

Explain how an individual's mental and physical health habits affect what he or she thinks about himself or herself.

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

Identify kinds of information provided on a food label.

Community and Environmental Health

List major reasons why people either abstain from or use tobacco.

Describe how the skills of communication, cooperation, and advocacy are essential for healthy relationships.

Identify the relationship between psychological factors and eating disorders.

Analyze the health hazards of drugs and benefits of medicines.

Differentiate between legal and illegal drugs and explain the benefits of medicines and harmful effects of illegal drugs.

Identify different mental health disorders and recognize signs of each.

Apply the decision-making model to solve a personal problem.

Identify common defense mechanisms.

Name sources of air, water, noise, radiation, and ground pollution.

Identify rights and responsibilities as a consumer.

Discuss promotion of safety and prevention of accidents.

Recognize diseases associated with poor nutrition.

List reasons that parents decide to have children.

Recognize the benefits of being a wise consumer.

Illustrate how drug use, misuse, and abuse cause problems in society.

Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, prevention, and treatment of HIV and AIDS.

Assemble contents of a basic first aid kit.

Describe the symptoms, mode of transmission, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Practice first aid emergency procedures, including reporting accidents and providing first aid for wounds, choking, fractures, heart attacks, seizures, and poisonings.

Identify nonthreatening ways of being assertive.

Discuss various methods of family planning.

Identify the steps in the decision-making model.