Grade 7 Health Colorado standards Standards

Physical and Personal Wellness

Analyze factors that influence healthy eating behaviors.

Analyze how family, peers, media, and culture influence food choices.

Analyze how social and cultural messages about food and eating influence nutrition choices.

Analyze the influence that adults and role models have on one’s food choices.

Analyze internal influences on one’s food choices.

Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy family and peer relationships.

Evaluate the characteristics of healthy relationships, including dating, and discuss factors that support and sustain them.

Explain the purpose of friendship and describe how friends can support one another in making healthy decisions.

Demonstrate effective strategies for dealing with difficult relationships with family members, peers, and boyfriends or girlfriends.

Analyze the internal and external factors that influence sexual decision-making and activity.

Describe a variety of external influences such as parents, the media, culture, peers, and society that affect sexual decision-making and sexual activity.

Describe how internal influences such as curiosity, hormones, interests, desires, fears, and feelings affect sexual decision-making and activity.

Describe how personal, peer, and family values and beliefs influence decisions about sexual and reproductive health.

Analyze the discrepancies between perceived and actual sexual activity and how the information influences your sexual decision-making.

Develop strategies that advocate for healthy sexual boundaries and decision- making.

Define sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Describe the effects of HIV infection on the body.

Explain how HIV is and is not contracted.

Define common STDs.

Explain how certain behaviors put a person in higher risk of contracting STD’s.

Social and Emotional Wellness

Demonstrate effective communication skills to express thoughts and feelings appropriately.

Demonstrate the ability to engage in active listening.

Demonstrate negotiation skills to support the healthy expression of personal needs.

Demonstrate the ability to state personal needs and articulate limits.

Practice verbal and nonverbal ways to ask for help from a parent, trusted adults, or friends.

Advocate for self and others to increase the safety of school community.

Identify a variety of verbal and nonverbal communication styles and how to respond effectively.

Develop healthy self-management skills to prevent and manage stress.

Compare and contrast positive and negative ways of dealing with stress.

Define stress.

Identify personal stressors.

Explain the body’s physical and psychological responses to stressful situations.

Develop healthy strategies to deal with stressors.

Practice strategies such as physical activity, relaxation techniques, journaling, and talking with someone to prevent, manage, and/or reduce stress.

Prevention and Risk Management

Analyze the consequences of using marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Examine the social and economic, consequences of marijuana, illegal drugs, abuse of prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Explain how drugs are addictive (marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco).

Explain family rules, school policies, and community laws related to the sale and use of marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Explain how drugs alter the body and the brain (marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco).

Analyze the effects of marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco on a person’s ability to make decisions.

Demonstrate self-management skills to reduce physical and emotional violence and actively participate in violence prevention.

Describe the short- and long-term consequences of violence on perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.

Explain the role of bystanders in escalating, preventing, or stopping bullying, fighting, hazing, gossip, exclusion of individuals, or violence.

Describe strategies and skills one could use to avoid physical fighting and violence.

Identify a variety of nonviolent ways to respond when angry or upset.

Demonstrate the ability to identify a parent, trusted adult, or appropriate legal authorities to whom school or community violence should be reported.

Describe the dangers of and actions to be taken if aware of threats to harm self or others.

Describe the dangers of and actions to be taken if weapons are seen or suspected in schools.

Demonstrate appropriate communication skills to solve conflicts nonviolently.

Demonstrate safety procedures for a variety of situations.

Describe first-response procedures needed to treat injuries and other emergencies.

Identify accepted procedures for emergency care and lifesaving care.

Describe actions to take during severe weather or trauma-related emergencies.

Analyze the role of peers, family, and media in causing or preventing injuries.