Grade 8 Health Kansas standards Standards

Substance Use and Abuse & Addiction

Prevention & Control of Disease

Personal Health

Nutrition

Mental and Emotional Health

Injury Prevention and Safety

Human Sexuality and Relationships

Environmental Health

Consumer Health

Community Health

The students will know, comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize and/or evaluate:

Effects and consequences of illegal drug use

Communicable and noncommunicable diseases

Disease prevention skills

Proper adolescent hygiene habits

Meal planning and budgeting

Male and female reproductive systems

Local/state laws, ordinances, and policies for a healthy community

Effects and consequences of nicotine use (all forms)

Major body systems, anatomy, functions, relationships between systems

Nutritional needs through stages of development

Importance of expressing emotions in a productive and healthy manner

Basic first aid skills (including bloodborne pathogens)

Changes during puberty

Personal responsibility for community environmental issues

Validity of information on health care products and services

Resources in the community for improved health

Rules and laws for medicines and drugs

Factors in weight control

Media safety (social media, cyber, TV, music, advertising, etc.)

Safe alternatives to medicine

Food packaging and advertising

Weather related safety (supplies, shelter, etc.)

Treatment, intervention and prevention of drug overdose, dependency, and abuse

Nutritional supplements

Impact of food choices

Effects and consequences of alcohol use

Common causes of death, illness and disorders

Character development

Injury prevention at home, school and community

Refusal skills

Reduce, reuse, recycle, and alternatives

Adolescent health care product information

Local community needs/issues/events

Purpose, examples, and benefits of daily exercise

Safe storage and food handling

Mental health terminology

Prevention for sports, physical activity and recreation related injury

Responsible behaviors within relationships (communication, abstinence, etc.)

Types and effects of pollution

Interpersonal and intrapersonal influences on health choices (budgeting, culture, SES, etc.)

Cumulative risk behaviors (patterns, gateway drugs, etc.)

Medical resources, health screenings and treatment methods for disease

Importance and strategies to seek personal health care

Nutritional goals

Stress management and coping skills

Resources for safety and injury prevention and response (school, work, community, home, etc.)

Environmental influences on health

Informed consumer choices regarding health

Impact of participation and engagement within the community

Correct use, misuse and abuse of drug

Relationship between lifestyle choices and disease prevention

Develop positive relationships

Community nutrition efforts

Coping with loss and grief

Intentional and unintentional injury

Potential outcomes of sexual activity

Local and state environmental issues

Seek reliable consumer health advice

Global health issues

Categories of drugs (ex. stimulants, opiates, depressants, hallucinogens, etc.)

Differences between bacterial, viral and fungal infections

Recommended sleep amounts

Food labels

Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships

Prevention and response to physical violence (guns and/or weapons and bullying)

Seeking reliable adult advice regarding relationships, dating, and sexual activity

Laws, ordinances, and policies

Importance of local and state health policies

Addiction and tolerance

Structure/function of the immune system

Eating disorders/dysfunctions

Relationship between body image and self-esteem

Prevention and response to mental violence (bullying and abuse)

Laws associated with sexual behaviors (consent, harassment, assault, rape, etc.)

Addictive substances and effects on all dimensions of health

Dietary guidelines

Impact of media on self-esteem

Prevention and response to sexual violence (harassment, assault, rape, and abuse)

Media, social influences, and peer pressure of drug usage

Establishing and maintaining healthy eating practices

Bullying/harassment prevention

Prevention and response to social violence (relationships, conflict resolution, and cyber)