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Standard 5

The student will understand and demonstrate how to promote positive health practices within the school and community, including how to cultivate positive relationships with peers.

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Middle School

Students in middle school who meet this standard will be able to:Students in middle school who meet this standard will be able to:

  • Interact effectively with people, including both males and females and members of different ethnic and cultural groups.
  • Recognize his or her role in promoting positive health behaviors among peers.
  • Know appropriate ways to make new friends.
  • Know how to help friends recognize when they should seek help from a trusted adult.
  • Understand and follow school rules related to health.
  • Join in community efforts to address local health and environmental issues.
  • Identify agencies that provide protection against fraudulent health products, services, and misinformation.
  • Understand how HIV can spread throughout a community.

The following tasks and assignments might be used to determine whether the student is meeting the standard:

  • Students will work in groups to design their ideal school, including activity areas and environment.
  • Students will investigate and report on how clubs, sports, and organizations in their school and community provide opportunities to meet people and make new friends.
  • Students will commit to a volunteer or service learning project in the school community and report on the experience to the class.
  • Students will identify the elements of an ideal friendship.
  • Students will role-play strategies to convince friends in high-risk situations to seek adult help.
  • After participating in a mock HIV transmission activity, students will describe how quickly and extensively HIV can spread.

High School

Students in high school who meet this standard will be able to:

  • Interact effectively with a diverse population (including both males and females and members of different ethnic and cultural groups).
  • Demonstrate respect for all people.
  • Understand the components of a healthy relationship.
  • Describe the role of a responsible citizen.
  • Demonstrate ways to advocate responsibility for the environmental health of the school and community.
  • Examine how laws, policies, and practices influence human health locally, nationally, and internationally.

The following tasks and assignments might be used to determine whether the student is meeting the standard:

  • Students will construct a list of perceived advantages and disadvantages of being male or female, and discuss roles, stereotypes, sexism, and gender equity issues.
  • Students will develop and prioritize a list of desirable characteristics present in a healthy relationship.
  • Students will identify an individual who demonstrates high standards of citizenship and compare these character traits to ones they already possess or hope to acquire.
  • Students will plan and organize a community effort to improve the environment of the school.