Grade 6

Explain how to maintain the healthy status of body systems.

Compare immediate and long-term effects of personal health care choices such as personal and dental hygiene.

Develop criteria for evaluating the validity of health information and sources.

Describe ways to demonstrate decision-making skills based on health information.

Identify current health-related issues and recommendations or guidelines.

Explain the role of preventive health measures, immunizations, and treatment such as wellness exams and dental check-ups in disease prevention.

Describe actions that should be taken when illness occurs, including asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy.

Describe and recognize the signs, symptoms, and treatments of vector-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease or West Nile Virus.

Demonstrate healthy methods for communicating emotions in a variety of scenarios.

Assess and demonstrate healthy ways of responding to conflict.

Differentiate between positive and negative peer influence.

Describe methods for communicating important issues with and understanding perspectives of parents and peers.

Discuss and demonstrate how to listen and respect others' feelings and perspectives in a variety of scenarios.

Identify strategies for using non-violent conflict resolution skills.

Identify how physical and social changes impact self-esteem.

Identify possible health benefits of setting and implementing long-term personal goals.

Create and discuss personal life goals that one wishes to achieve and consider the financial impact of graduating from high school, having a full-time job, and waiting until marriage if one plans to have children.

Explain the steps in the decision-making process and the importance of following the steps.

Identify and discuss how adolescent brain development influences emotions, decision making, and logic.

Relate physical environmental factors such as school climate and availability of resources to individual, family, and community health.

Examine the outcomes of healthy and unhealthy methods for managing challenges related to long-term health conditions of self and others.

Identify and describe lifetime strategies for managing conditions that impact learning such as attention-deficit disorder (ADD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dysgraphia, and sensory issues.

Identify how to respond positively to develop resiliency.

Describe healthy and unhealthy self-management strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, and grief.

Identify causes and effects associated with disordered eating and eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder and the importance of seeking help from a parent or another trusted adult for oneself or others related to disordered eating.

Discuss the suicide risk and suicide protective factors identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the importance of telling a parent or another trusted adult if one observes the warning signs in self or others.

Explain the role of a healthy self-concept in avoiding self-harming behaviors that can occur when someone is struggling to manage overwhelming emotions.

Identify suicide prevention resources such as the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.

Define micronutrients, including calcium and iron, and their recommended daily allowances.

Compare and contrast common food labels and menus for nutritional content and calories.

Describe healthy and unhealthy dietary practices.

Explain the importance of a realistic personal dietary plan.

Evaluate the importance of choosing lower sodium alternatives to foods that have high levels of sodium such as salty snacks and canned vegetables.

Identify the CDC guidelines for daily physical activity throughout the lifespan.

Analyze the benefits of regular physical activity on mental, physical, and social health.

Make a variety of healthy personal food choices and develop short-and long-term goals to achieve appropriate levels of physical activity and improve personal physical fitness levels.

Explain the role of media and technology in influencing individual and community health related to physical activity and nutritional choices.

Analyze the impact of moderate physical activity and dietary choices on the prevention of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

Identify strategies to adopt healthy behaviors to reduce the likelihood of developing chronic conditions such as obesity, heart disease, or diabetes.

Analyze internal and external factors that influence healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

Discuss the nutritional differences between preparing and serving fresh or minimally processed foods and commercially prepared or highly processed foods.

Describe basic first-aid procedures.

Discuss and demonstrate strategies for avoiding violence, gangs, weapons, and human trafficking.

Define safe haven and identify dedicated safe haven locations in the community.

Describe the dangers associated with a variety of weapons.

Explain the importance of complying with rules prohibiting possession of weapons.

Create a personal safety plan.

Discuss appropriate personal digital and online communication boundaries.

Develop strategies to resist inappropriate digital and online communication such as social media posts, sending and receiving photos, sexting, and pornography.

Discuss and analyze consequences resulting from inappropriate digital and online communication such as social media posts, sending and receiving photos, sexting, and pornography.

Discuss strategies and techniques for identity protection in digital and online environments.

Identify how technology is used to recruit or manipulate potential victims of sex trafficking.

Identify the current legal consequences of cyberbullying and inappropriate digital and online communication.

Identify how exposure to family violence can influence behavior and the importance of reporting suspected abuse.

Assess healthy and appropriate ways of responding to and discouraging bullying and cyberbullying, including behavior that takes place at school.

Analyze the impact that bullying has on both victims and bullies.

Identify strategies for prevention and intervention of all forms of bullying and cyberbullying such as emotional, physical, social, and sexual.

Discuss ways to seek the input of parents and other trusted adults in problem solving issues relating to violence and bullying.

Describe the misuse and abuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, including combining drugs, and the dangers associated with each.

Compare and contrast examples of prescription and over-the-counter drug labels.

Identify and describe practices used to safely store and properly dispose of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Describe substance abuse and addiction to alcohol, vaping products, tobacco, other drugs, and dangerous substances.

Describe the short-and long-term health consequences of prescription and over-the-counter drug misuse and substance use disorders.

Discuss the legal consequences related to the use, misuse, and possession of drugs, including prescription drugs.

Identify ways to report a suspected abuse of drugs to a parent, school administrator, teacher, or another trusted adult.

Identify signs and symptoms of alcohol; tobacco; drugs, including prescription drugs; and other substance use and misuse such as using medicine prescribed for someone else or for reasons other than intended.

Identify examples of who, when, where, and how to get help related to unsafe situations regarding the use and misuse of alcohol; tobacco; drugs, including prescription drugs; and other substances.

Explain the impact of peer influence on decision making regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Describe methods for differentiating between positive and negative relationships that can influence alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

Identify physical and social influences on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use behaviors.

Explain the relationships between alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and other substances and the role each can play in unsafe situations such as drinking and driving.

Identify ways such as alternative activities and refusal skills to prevent or avoid the use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and other substances.

Demonstrate refusal skills in various scenarios where alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs may be present.

Identify and describe strategies for avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, including opioids.

Define and distinguish between friendship, infatuation, dating/romantic relationships, and marriage.

Describe how friendships provide a foundation for healthy dating/romantic relationships.

List healthy ways to express friendship, affection, and love.

Describe characteristics of healthy dating/romantic relationships and marriage, including sharing, kindness, honesty, respect, trust, patience, communication, and compatibility.

Explain that each person in a dating/romantic relationship should be treated with dignity and respect.

Describe how healthy marriages can contribute to healthy families and communities.

Identify that physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and exploitation are all forms of abuse.

Identify the social and emotional impacts of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking.

List the characteristics of unhealthy or harmful relationships, including anger, controlling behavior, jealousy, manipulation, and isolation.

Identify ways of reporting suspected sexual abuse involving self or others such as telling a parent or another trusted adult.

Explain how a healthy sense of self and making and respecting decisions about safe boundaries and limits promote healthy dating/romantic relationships.

Identify communication and refusal skills and how they can be applied in dating/romantic relationships.

Explain the importance of clearly communicating and respecting personal boundaries and using refusal skills related to physical intimacy such as holding hands, hugging, and kissing.

Describe changes in male and female anatomy and physiology during puberty and how rates and patterns of development can vary between individuals.

Describe the process, characteristics, and variations of the menstrual cycle.

Analyze the role of hormones related to growth and development and personal health.

Describe the cellular process of fertilization in human reproduction.

Explain significant milestones of fetal development.

Identify teen pregnancy as a possible outcome of sexual activity.

Identify life goals that one wishes to achieve prior to becoming a parent.

Define sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as infections or diseases that are spread through sex or sexual activity.

Identify what emotional risks are associated with sexual activity between unmarried persons of school age.

Define abstinence as refraining from all forms of sexual activity and genital contact between individuals and discuss the importance of seeking support from parents, other trusted adults, and peers to be abstinent.

Explain why abstinence is the preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity for unmarried persons of school age.

Identify why abstinence from sexual activity is the only method that is 100% effective in preventing pregnancy; STDs/STIs, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); and the emotional risks associated with adolescent sexual activity.

List the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity such as increased self-esteem, self-confidence, student academic achievement, and alignment with personal, family, and moral or religious beliefs and values.

Explain how laws protect victims of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and sexual assault.