High School Health ILS Standards

Demonstrate skills essential to enhancing health and avoiding dangerous situations.

Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual, family, and community health.

Demonstrate procedures for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict.

Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.

Describe and explain the structures and functions of the brain and how they are impacted by different types of physical activity and levels of fitness.

Describe factors that affect growth and development.

Explain the effects of health-related actions on the body systems.

Describe and explain the structure and functions of the human body systems and how they interrelate.

Understand human body systems and factors that influence growth and development.

Describe how to advocate for the health of individuals, families and communities.

Explain how the environment can affect health.

Describe and explain the factors that influence health among individuals, groups, and communities.

Explain the basic principles of health promotion, illness prevention and safety including how to access valid information, products, and services.

Understand principles of health promotion and the prevention and treatment of illness and injury.

Demonstrate cooperative skills during structured group physical activity.

Demonstrate personal responsibility during group physical activities.

Develop skills necessary to become a successful member of a team by working with others during physical activity.

Set goals based on fitness data and develop, implement, and monitor an individual fitness improvement plan.

Assess individual fitness levels.

Know and apply the principles and components of health-related and skill-related fitness as applied to learning and performance of physical activities.

Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment.

Demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety and strategies during physical activity.

Analyze various movement concepts and applications.

Demonstrate physical competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Demonstrate knowledge and skills in a self-selected individual sport, a team sport, creative movement, and work-related activities.

Participate daily in moderate to vigorous physical activity while performing movement patterns in a variety of activities.

Apply the principles of efficient movement to evaluate personal performance.

Develop and implement a variety of movement concepts to enhance brain function.

Select components (e.g., equipment, boundaries, number of players, rules) which promote participation in novel or original physical activities.

Analyze and apply complex offensive, defensive, and cooperative strategies for selected games and sports.

Implement an individualized health-related fitness plan which includes the principles of training.

Develop and implement various types of fitness training programs (e.g., circuit, cross and interval training) and describe the characteristics, implications and benefits of each.

Collect and interpret health-related fitness data over a period of time, with and without the use of technology.

Evaluate the effects of fitness choices and heredity on wellness.

Analyze and explain the correlation between level of fitness and academic achievement.

Set realistic, long-term, health-related fitness goals based on individual profiles.

Understand how aging, illness, and injury affect physical activity.

Use profile data to monitor an individual wellness/fitness plan.

Demonstrate individual responsibility through use of various team-building strategies in physical activity settings (e.g., etiquette, fair play, self-officiating, coaching, organizing a group activity).

Demonstrate when to lead and when to be supportive to accomplish group goals.

Explain strategies for managing contagious, chronic, and degenerative illnesses (e.g., various treatment and support systems).

Evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and illness prevention methods using data from actual situations (e.g., impact of worksite health promotion programs).

Explain how health and safety problems have been altered by technology, media and medicine (e.g., product testing; control of polio; advanced surgical techniques; improved treatments for cancer, diabetes, and heart disease; worksite safety management).

Analyze how public health policies, laws, and the media function to prevent and control illness (e.g., product and food labeling, food safety and handling, school immunizations).

Compare and contrast how individuals, communities, and states prevent and correct health-threatening environmental problems (e.g., recycling, banning leaf burning, restaurant inspections, OSHA standards in the workplace).

Explain how individuals can improve or help sustain school or community health initiatives and/or services.

Explain how the systems of the body are affected by exercise and the impact that exercise has on learning.

Understand the effects of healthy living on individuals and their future generations (e.g., not using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during pregnancy).

Explain how the aging process affects body systems (e.g., vision, hearing, immune system).

Analyze and communicate information regarding physical activity and fitness levels and their effects on how the brain functions.

Compare and contrast strategies to prevent conflict and resolve differences.

Explain immediate and long-term impacts of health decisions to the individual, family and community.

Evaluate progress toward the attainment of a health goal.

Demonstrate skills essential to enhancing health and avoiding dangerous situations.

Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual, family, and community health.

Demonstrate procedures for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict.

Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.

Describe and explain the structures and functions of the brain and how they are impacted by different types of physical activity and levels of fitness.

Describe factors that affect growth and development.

Explain the effects of health-related actions on the body systems.

Describe and explain the structure and functions of the human body systems and how they interrelate.

Understand human body systems and factors that influence growth and development.

Describe how to advocate for the health of individuals, families and communities.

Explain how the environment can affect health.

Describe and explain the factors that influence health among individuals, groups, and communities.

Explain the basic principles of health promotion, illness prevention and safety including how to access valid information, products, and services.

Understand principles of health promotion and the prevention and treatment of illness and injury.

Demonstrate cooperative skills during structured group physical activity.

Demonstrate personal responsibility during group physical activities.

Develop skills necessary to become a successful member of a team by working with others during physical activity.

Set goals based on fitness data and develop, implement, and monitor an individual fitness improvement plan.

Assess individual fitness levels.

Know and apply the principles and components of health-related and skill-related fitness as applied to learning and performance of physical activities.

Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment.

Demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety and strategies during physical activity.

Analyze various movement concepts and applications.

Demonstrate physical competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Perform skills efficiently in a variety of leisure activities, sports, creative movement, and work-related activities.

Participate daily in moderate to vigorous physical activity while performing movement patterns in a variety of activities.

Analyze various movement patterns for efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyze multiple movement patterns with additional combination movement patterns and their effects on the brain.

Develop rules and safety procedures for physical activities.

Select and apply offensive, defensive, and cooperative strategies in selected activities, games, and sports.

Interpret the effects of exercise/physical activity on the level of health-related and skill-related fitness.

Participate in various types of fitness training programs (e.g., circuit, cross and interval training) and know the implications of and the benefits from participation in those programs.

Record and interpret health-related physiological data (e.g., blood pressure, body mass index, oxygen exchange), with and without the use of technology.

Prepare an individual health-related fitness profile and evaluate fitness level on each component.

Understand and explain the importance of fitness as it relates to academic performance.

Set realistic, short-term, health-related fitness goals based on individual profiles.

Analyze personal fitness data and academic performance and describe the correlation between the two.

Evaluate physical fitness services, products, and advertising.

Design and implement a personal fitness program.

Demonstrate decision-making skills both independently and with others during physical activities.

Apply identified procedures and safe practices to all group physical activity settings.

Complete a given task on time.

Work cooperatively with others to achieve group goals in competitive and non-competitive situations (e.g., challenge course, orienteering).

Compare and contrast communicable, chronic, and degenerative illnesses (e.g., influenza, cancer, arthritis).

Analyze possible outcomes of effective health promotion and illness prevention (e.g., reduction in stress, improved fitness, lessened likelihood of injury and illness).

Demonstrate basic procedures in injury prevention and emergency care that can be used in the home, workplace, and community (e.g., first aid, CPR).

Research and report about a career in health promotion, health care and injury prevention.

Explain social and economic effects of health problems on individuals and society (e.g., cost of health care, reduction in productivity).

Analyze how environmental conditions can affect health on a large scale (e.g., acid rain, oil spills, solid waste contamination, nuclear leaks, ozone depletion).

Identify health resources to help influence others in making healthy choices.

Explain how body system functions can be maintained and improved (e.g., exercise/fitness, nutrition, safety).

Explain immediate and long-term effects of health habits on the body systems (e.g., diet/heart disease, exercise/fat reduction, stress management/emotional health).

Describe changes in physical health and body functions at various stages of the life cycle.

Explain how brain functions can be maintained and improved through activity.

Describe the effects (e.g., economic losses, threats to personal safety) of conflict and violence upon the health of individuals, families, and communities.

Formulate strategies to prevent conflict and resolve differences.

Explain how decision making affects the achievement of individual health goals.

Formulate a plan to achieve individual health goals.