Grade 8 Health Missouri standards Standards

Examine existing and potential environmental health problems within their community and create solutions to address them.

Evaluate potential results of an environmental solution considering aesthetics, ethics, societal responsibility.

Individual Responsibility

Describe ways in which the environment and ecosystems can be damaged and disrupted such as overpopulation, overuse of resources, and pollution.

Effects of Pollution on Health

Environmental Health

Determine the cause and effect relationship between the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances and emergency situations (e.g., motor vehicle accidents, overdose, accidental death, binge drinking).

Develop an informed decision regarding the use of smoked and smokeless tobacco based on knowledge of short and long-term effects on the body, individual, and society.

Determine a cause and effect relationship regarding body system functions (i.e., muscular, excretory, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory) and the use of TAOD (e.g., alcohol and impaired judgment, marijuana and short term memory loss, smoking and low birth weight babies).

Substance Use vs. Non-Use

Substance Education

Analyze why the processes are used in sequential order (i.e., ABC of emergencies).

Prioritize and demonstrate the steps involved in assessing an emergency situation including 911 format, check, call, care.

First Aid Procedures

Identify societal problems (assault, homicide, rape, robbery, gangs, personal safety risks).

Recognize problems in daily living that may contribute to self-destructive behaviors and apply strategies to reduce the risks of harm to self and others.

Safety for Home, School, and Communities

Injury Prevention and Safety

Explain the patterns of transmission, treatment (past and present), and prevention of HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Education

Recognize adolescent health issues and select appropriate strategies to solve or prevent problems (e.g., Anorexia, bulimia, acne, scoliosis) including knowing symptoms and causes, early diagnosis and treatment, self-care and management.

Analyze the impact non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and asthma, could have on adolescents physical, social, and emotional development.

Adolescent Health Issues and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Hypothesize optimal conditions for growth and transmission of pathogens.

Types of Pathogens and Transmission

Describe the body's lines of defense and the stages of disease progression (e.g., incubation).

Body Defenses and Recovery

Explain how risk behaviors can contribute to the development of chronic disease (e.g., relationships between smoking and emphysema or alcohol consumption and cirrhosis).

Connect causative factors, symptoms, treatment and preventive measures to their appropriate non-communicable diseases.

Communicable vs. Non-Communicable Diseases

Disease Prevention and Control

Risk Assessment and Reduction

Investigate resources available to cope with social problems related to abuse, exploitation, harassment, or bullying (e.g., school, police, peers, hotlines, counselors).

Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage, or report social problems related to abuse, exploitation, harassment, or bullying.

Harassment/Bullying and Violence Prevention

Distinguish between problems that can be solved independently and those that need the help of a peer, adult, or professional.

Decision Making and Problem Solving

Life Management Skills

Identify career opportunities in health-related professions and how these roles meet the needs of the health consumer (e.g., exercise physiologist, sports therapist, dietician, tertiary care).

Analyze how the Department of Health and Senior Services, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public health agencies are responsible for disease reduction and control prevention, research, education, and enforcement of laws (e.g., food inspection, safe food storage and handling, distributing flu vaccines, and no smoking ordinances).

Examine the viewpoints and efforts of individuals, communities, and government regarding societal health issues in order to make decisions that are informed and responsible: managing waste, conserving energy and water, pollution control, tobacco free facilities.

Community Services/Careers

Identify and analyze consumer health issues and products to make wise decisions.

Identify and select appropriate consumer protection agencies that address various specific consumer issues.

Consumer Rights and Issues

Analyze marketing and advertising techniques that influence consumer decisions (e.g., bandwagon, beautiful people, good times, status symbols/well known characters).

Media Influence on Health Habits and Decisions

Consumer Health and Safety

Create a meal plan (s) through the selection of appropriate food based on energy needs, food preferences and nutrient requirements as represented in "My Pyramid".

Balance, Variety and Moderation

Justify food sources that supply each of the essential nutrients.

Essential Nutrients and Food Groupings

Nutrition

Assess personal health needs during adolescence and apply strategies to address those needs or problems.

Preventive Care

Analyze how social, emotional, physical, and mental health affect wellness.

Personal Health

Personal and Family Health

Health Maintenance and Enhancement

Analyze ways individuals can respond to the various needs and characteristics of diverse people including those with different abilities, chronic diseases, different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Communication Skills

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Identify cancer signs and symptoms and explain the importance of monthly self-examinations.

Explain how to maintain a healthy reproductive system.

Describe the impact heredity and lifestyle choices have on the reproductive system functions and disease formation.

Reproductive System

Relate a function of each endocrine gland (e.g., thyroid-metabolism; pituitary-master hormonal gland and height; adrenal-fight or flight; pancreas-insulin; ovaries-eggs; testes-sperm) and how it is impacted by lifestyle choices.

Endocrine System

Analyze how learning is influenced by the brain's short term and long term memory, environmental learning styles and learning strategies (e.g., multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, hypothesis, inquiry.

Nervous System

Structure and Functions of the Body

Functions and Interrelationships of Systems

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.