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Standard 9
The student will know how to identify products, services, and
information that may be helpful or harmful to his or her health.
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Middle School
Students in middle school who meet this standard
will be able to
- Identify a variety of consumer influences and analyze how
those influences affect decisions.
- Identify reliable sources of nutrition information.
- Identify a variety of low-cost foods that provide nutritionally
adequate diets.
- Explore a variety of health-related careers.
- Identify health services in the community that seek to prevent
and treat disease.
- Distinguish health concerns that they can manage from those
that require professional care.
The following tasks and assignments might be used
to determine whether the student is meeting the standard:
- Using computerized nutrient analysis program and actual grocery
store prices, student groups will identify the lowest cost one-day
menu with the greatest nutritional benefit.
- Students will find and compare two or more advertisements for
the same health-related product, select one, and defend their
decisions verbally or by cartoon depiction.
- Students will develop a list of consumer “bill of rights,”
investigate (through the Internet) consumer advocate groups, and
compare the class-generated list with existing lists. Health Education
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High School
Students in high school who meet this standard will
be able to:
- Apply criteria for selecting health services, products, and
information.
- Develop strategies for identifying and combating fraudulent
health products, services, and information.
- Analyze the influence of advertising and marketing on the
selection of healthful and nutritional products.
- Analyze how individual citizens and communities can promote
a healthy and safe environment.
- Identify resources that should be conserved to protect health
and to improve environmental quality.
The following tasks and assignments might be used to determine
whether the student is meeting the standard:
- Students will develop criteria for selecting reliable and valid
health services, products, and information.
- Students will create a public service announcement that promotes
a safe and healthy environment.
- Students will select an advertisement and evaluate its influence
on consumer choices.
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