Grade 7 Health Maine standards Standards

Explain the safety rules and possible risks associated with specific games/physical activities.

Explain the purposes for modifying playing rules in specified situations.

Students describe game/physical activity rules and safety rules and their purposes.

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Students demonstrate responsible personal behaviors while participating in physical activities.

Responsible Behavior

Engage peers respectfully in activities.

Manage conflict.

Respond appropriately to peer pressure.

Work together as a team.

Students demonstrate cooperative and inclusive skills while participating in physical activities.

Cooperative Skills

Personal and Social Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and explain responsible personal behavior and responsible social behavior in physical activity settings.

Students describe physiological responses and physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social benefits related to regular participation in physical activity.

Physical Activity Benefits

Students participate in physical activities that address personal fitness goals for the health-related fitness components including flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and body composition.

Fitness Activity

Students design a fitness program from established goals which addresses the five health-related fitness components and applies the frequency, intensity, time, and type (FITT) guidelines.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

Students participate in a health-related fitness assessment that addresses a variety of health-related fitness components to establish personal fitness goals.

Fitness Assessment

Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and apply fitness concepts.

Students explain how specific, positive, and correct feedback affect skill improvement.

Skill Improvement

Students describe the following skill-related fitness components: balance, coordination, agility, speed, and power.

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Combine manipulative skills with motor skills during drills or modified games/physical activities.

Demonstrate correct technique for motor skills and manipulative skills during drills or modified games/physical activities.

Students demonstrate motor skills and manipulative skills during drills or modified games/physical activities.

Movement Skills

Demonstrate lifts and actions that decrease risk for injury.

Demonstrate how the point of release changes the path of an object.

Demonstrate how the point of contact changes the path of an object.

Demonstrate the principle of opposition.

Students change their motion and the motion of objects by applying the principles of stability and force during skill practice.

Stability and Force

Movement/Motor Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate the fundamental and specialized movement skills and apply principles of movement for improved performance.

Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.

Develop and apply strategies and monitor progress toward a personal health goal.

Develop a short-term goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.

Assess personal health practices.

Students develop and apply strategies to attain a short-term personal health goal.

Goal-Setting

Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision.

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems and predict the potential short-term impact of alternative decisions for themselves and others.

Determine when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate.

Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.

Students apply decision-making skills to enhance health.

Decision-Making

Decision-Making and Goal-Setting Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health.

Demonstrate an ability to work cooperatively as an advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.

Develop health-enhancing messages using communication techniques that target a specific audience.

Develop a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with information.

Students describe ways to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Advocacy Skills

Demonstrate effective conflict management or conflict resolution strategies.

Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate effective communication skills including asking for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

Demonstrate communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Students apply effective verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.

Describe the influence of alcohol and other drug use on judgment and self-control.

Describe how gateway drugs can lead to the use of other drugs.

Students describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Compound Effect of Risk Behavior

Students analyze the influence of technology, including medical technology, on personal and family health.

Technology and Health

Explain how culture and personal values and beliefs influence individual health behaviors.

Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.

Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Examine how the family, school, and community influence the health behaviors of adolescents.

Students explain and analyze influences on adolescent health behaviors.

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Influences on Health: Students analyze the ability of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors to enhance health.

Students distinguish between healthy and unhealthy strategies for stress, anger, and grief management.

Self-Management

Develop injury prevention and response strategies including first aid for personal and family health.

Demonstrate ways to recognize, avoid, or change situations that threaten the safety of self and others.

Students demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Students demonstrate a healthy practice and/or behavior to maintain or improve their own health in each of the following areas: personal hygiene, healthy eating; physical activity; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Locate valid and reliable health products, and services.

Locate valid and reliable health information.

Explain situations requiring the use of valid and reliable health information, products, and services.

Students locate valid and reliable health information, products, and services.

Locating Health Resources

Students analyze the validity of health information, products, and services.

Validity of Resources

Health Information, Products and Services: Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health.

Students explain essential health concepts related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.

Basic Health Concepts

Students describe specific characteristics of adolescent human growth and development.

Growth and Development

Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.

Describe how family history can impact personal health.

Analyze how environment impacts personal health.

Students determine how environment and other factors impact personal health.

Environment and Personal Health

Students identify causes of common adolescent diseases and other health problems and describe ways to reduce, prevent, or treat them.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Students explain the interrelationship of physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health.

Dimensions of Health

Identify the possible barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Examine the relationship between healthy and unhealthy behaviors and personal health.

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health.

Students examine the relationship between behaviors and personal health.

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

Health Concepts: Students comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.