Standard 5
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
Rationale: Decision-making skills are needed to identify, implement, and sustain health-enhancing behaviors. This standard includes the essential steps that are needed to make healthy decisions as prescribed in the performance indicators. When applied to health issues, the decision-making process enables individuals to collaborate with others to improve their quality of life.
Performance Indicators*
| Pre-K-Grade 2 | |
|---|---|
| 5.2.1 | Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed. |
| 5.2.2 | Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed. |
| Grades 3-5 | |
| 5.5.1 | Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision. |
| 5.5.2 | Analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision. |
| 5.5.3 | List healthy options to health-related issues or problems. |
| 5.5.4 | Predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision. |
| 5.5.5 | Choose a healthy option when making a decision. |
| 5.5.6 | Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision. |
| Grades 6-8 | |
| 5.8.1 | Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making. |
| 5.8.2 | Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process. |
| 5.8.3 | Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate. |
| 5.8.4 | Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems. |
| 5.8.5 | Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others. |
| 5.8.6 | Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision. |
| 5.8.7 | Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision. |
| Grades 9-12 | |
| 5.12.1 | Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision making. |
| 5.12.2 | Determine the value of applying a thoughtful decision-making process in health-related situations. |
| 5.12.3 | Justify when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate. |
| 5.12.4 | Generate alternatives to health-related issues or problems. |
| 5.12.5 | Predict the potential short-term and long-term impact of each alternative on self and others. |
| 5.12.6 | Defend the healthy choice when making decisions. |
| 5.12.7 | Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions. |
* The performance indicators articulate specifically what students should know or be able to do in support of each standard by the conclusion of each of the following grade spans: Pre-K–Grade 2; Grade 3–Grade 5; Grade 6–Grade 8; and Grade 9–Grade 12. The performance indicators serve as a blueprint for organizing student assessment.
- Page last reviewed: June 17, 2015
- Page last updated: June 17, 2015
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