Grade 6 Health CA Core Standards

Health Promotion - All students will demonstrate the ability to promote and support personal, family, and community health.

Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors - All students will demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that reduce risk and promote health.

Goal Setting - All students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Analyzing Influences - All students will demonstrate the ability to analyze internal and external influences that affect health.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Mental, Emotional, and Social Health

Health Promotion - All students will demonstrate the ability to promote and support personal, family, and community health.

Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors - All students will demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that reduce risk and promote health.

Goal Setting - All students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Analyzing Influences - All students will demonstrate the ability to analyze internal and external influences that affect health.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Health Promotion - All students will demonstrate the ability to promote and support personal, family, and community health.

Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors - All students will demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that reduce risk and promote health.

Goal Setting - All students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Analyzing Influences - All students will demonstrate the ability to analyze internal and external influences that affect health.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Injury Prevention and Safety

Explain short- and long-term effects of alcohol, tobacco, inhalant, and other drug use, including social, legal, and economic implications.

Describe the signs, causes, and health effects of stress, loss, and depression.

Explain methods to reduce conflict, harassment, and violence.

Identify positive alternatives to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

Summarize feelings and emotions associated with loss and grief.

Describe basic first aid and emergency procedures, including those for accidental loss of or injuries to teeth.

Differentiate between the use and misuse of prescription and nonprescription medicines.

Discuss how emotions change during adolescence.

Describe the risks of gang involvement.

Identify the benefits of a tobacco-free environment.

Describe the importance of being aware of one's emotions.

Examine disaster preparedness plans for the home and school.

Explain the dangers of secondhand smoke.

Describe the importance of being empathetic to individual differences, including people with disabilities and chronic diseases.

Examine the risks of possessing a weapon at home, at school, and in the community.

Explain the stages of drug dependence and addiction and the effects of drugs on the adolescent brain.

Explain why getting help for mental, emotional, and social health problems is appropriate and necessary.

Examine safety procedures when using public transportation and traveling in vehicles.

Identify the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on physical activity, including athletic performance.

Describe the importance of setting personal boundaries for privacy, safety, and expressions of emotions and opinions.

Discuss safety hazards related to Internet usage.

Describe the similarities between types of violent behaviors (e.g., bullying, hazing, fighting, and verbal abuse).

Describe hazards related to sun, water, and ice.

Discuss the harmful effects of violent behaviors.

Describe how the presence of weapons increases the risk of serious violent injuries.

Describe internal influences that affect the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Analyze the external and internal influences on mental, emotional, and social health.

Analyze the role of self and others in causing or preventing injuries.

Analyze the influence of marketing and advertising techniques, including the use of role models and how they affect use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Analyze influences on both safe and violent behaviors.

Analyze how impaired judgment and other effects of using alcohol or marijuana impact personal safety, relationships with friends and families, school success, and attainment of present and future goals.

Analyze personal behaviors that may lead to injuries or cause harm.

Explain how culture and media influence the use of alcohol and other drugs.

Identify sources of valid information regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse.

Identify sources of valid information and services for getting help with mental, emotional, and social health problems.

Identify rules and laws intended to prevent injuries.

Discuss the importance of getting help from a trusted adult when it is needed.

Demonstrate the ability to ask a trusted adult for help when feeling personally threatened or unsafe, including while using the Internet.

Use effective verbal communication skills to avoid situations where alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are being used.

Practice asking for help with mental, emotional, or social health problems from trusted adults.

Practice effective communication skills to prevent and avoid risky situations.

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal refusal skills to resist the pressure to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Describe how prejudice, discrimination, and bias can lead to violence.

Explain the importance of immediately reporting a weapon that is found or is in the possession of peers.

Demonstrate ways to communicate respect for diversity

Demonstrate escape strategies for situations in which weapons or other dangerous objects are present.

Demonstrate the ability to use steps of conflict resolution.

Practice communication and refusal skills to avoid gang involvement.

Analyze how decisions to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs will affect relationships with friends and family.

Apply a decision-making process to enhance health.

Use a decision-making process to determine a safe course of action in risky situations.

Analyze the kinds of situations involving alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for which help from an adult should be requested.

Describe situations for which someone should seek help with stress, loss, and depression.

Use a decision-making process to determine appropriate strategies for responding to bullying and harassment.

Analyze the legal, emotional, social, and health consequences of using alcohol and other drugs.

Compare and contrast being angry and angry behavior, and discuss the consequences.

Develop personal goals to remain drug-free.

Make a plan to prevent and manage stress.

Develop a personal plan to remain safe and injury-free.

Describe how personal goals can be affected if violence is used to solve problems.

Make a personal commitment to avoid persons, places, or activities that encourage violence or delinquency

Practice positive alternatives to using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Carry out personal and social responsibilities appropriately.

Practice ways to resolve conflicts nonviolently.

Practice strategies to manage stress.

Practice safe use of technology.

Discuss suicide-prevention strategies.

Practice appropriate ways to respect and include others who are different from oneself.

Practice positive alternatives to gang involvement.

Demonstrate how to use self-control when angry.

Practice basic first aid and emergency procedures.

Practice effective persuasion skills for encouraging others not to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Encourage a school environment that is respectful of individual differences.

Support injury prevention at school, at home, and in the community.

Object appropriately to teasing or bullying of peers that is based on personal characteristics and perceived sexual orientation.

Promote a bully-free school and community environment.

Encourage others to practice safe behaviors, including the proper use of safety belts when riding in cars, wearing helmets when riding bicycles, and wearing mouth guards when participating in athletic activities.