High School Health Maine Standards

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Technology and Health

Predict how modifications to the environment can impact safety during games/physical activities.

Analyze individual responsibility for enhancing health.

Students evaluate the impact of technology, including medical technology, on personal, family, and community health.

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

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

Evaluate the effectiveness of a health-related decision.

Locating Health Resources

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

Movement Skills

Implement strategies and analyze progress in achieving a personal health goal.

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

Predict how healthy behaviors can positively impact health status.

Give constructive feedback.

Demonstrate how spin and rebound affect the motion of an object.

Describe barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Adapt health messages and communication techniques for different audiences.

Responsible Behavior

Advocacy Skills

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

Investigate how public health policies and government regulations can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Basic Health Concepts

Students demonstrate collaborative skills while participating in physical activities.

Students explain the interrelationship of physiological responses and physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social benefits related to regular participation in physical activity.

Assess personal health practices and overall health status.

Students demonstrate responsible and ethical personal behavior while participating in physical activities.

Students design, implement, and evaluate a plan for stress management.

Explain how etiquette/rules contribute to productive participation.

Evaluate the effect of the media on personal and family health.

Justify when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate.

Students explain the relationship of skill-related fitness components to specialized movement skills.

Self-Management

Students determine the interrelationship between the environment and other factors and personal health.

Cooperative Skills

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

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

Determine when professional health services may be required.

Growth and Development

Analyze the influence of drug use on individual and group behavior.

Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Students change their motion and the motion of objects by applying the principles of stability and force to modify their performance in games/physical activities.

Defend the healthy choice when making a decision.

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

Students select and participate in physical activities that address their personal fitness plans and apply the five health-related fitness components.

Develop a plan to attain a short-term personal health goal that addresses strengths, needs, and risks.

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

Students analyze and evaluate influences on health and health behaviors.

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Students demonstrate a variety of specialized movement skills specific to a game/physical activity while participating in a game/physical activity.

Students design and critique a personal fitness plan, from established goals, that applies the five health-related fitness components and the principles of training (specificity, overload, and progression).

Students predict how behaviors can impact health status.

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

Adjust movements to accommodate external forces that decrease risk for injury.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

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

Accept constructive feedback.

Utilize accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message.

Analyze the relationship between access to health care and health status.

Fitness Assessment

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

Compare the value of thoughtful decision-making to quick decision-making in a health-related situation.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Students participate in a health-related fitness assessment to establish personal fitness goals and reassess their fitness over time.

Analyze the influence of alcohol use on individual and group behavior.

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

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

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

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

Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Goal-Setting

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

Students explain causes of common diseases, disorders, and other health problems and propose ways to reduce, prevent, or treat them.

Use the principle of opposition, point of contact, and point of release to change the path of an object during a game/physical activity.

Skill Improvement

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

Students describe the characteristics of human growth and development throughout the various stages of life.

Students demonstrate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve the health of self and others in each of the following areas: healthy eating; physical activity; tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention; and prevention of STDs, HIV and unintended pregnancy.

Fitness Activity

Physical Activity Benefits

Students formulate a long-term personal health plan, incorporating decision-making and goal-setting strategies.

Long-Term Health Plan

Access valid and reliable health information.

Compound Effect of Risk Behavior

Environment and Personal Health

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Dimensions of Health

Students utilize skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health.

Demonstrate an ability to work cooperatively as an advocate for improving personal, family, and community health.

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

Describe how genetics and family history can impact personal health.

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid and reduce health risks.

Stability and Force

Students develop and analyze a plan to attain a personal health goal.

Students evaluate the validity and accessibility of health information, products, and services.

Students apply a decision-making process to enhance health.

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

Validity of Resources

Students predict how etiquette/rules improve games/activities.

Decision-Making

Examine personal susceptibility to, and the potential severity of, injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Analyze how family, school and community influence the health of individuals.

Include peers respectfully in activities.

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

Students design appropriate practice sessions, utilizing fundamental movement skills to improve performance.

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

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

Access valid and reliable health products, and services.

Generate alternative approaches to situations involving health-related decisions and predict the potential short-term and long-term impact for themselves and others for each alternative.