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Health Science Standards

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Standard 9

The student will know how to identify products, services, and information that may be helpful or harmful to his or her health.

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Middle School

Students in middle school who meet this standard will be able to

  • Identify a variety of consumer influences and analyze how those influences affect decisions.
  • Identify reliable sources of nutrition information.
  • Identify a variety of low-cost foods that provide nutritionally adequate diets.
  • Explore a variety of health-related careers.
  • Identify health services in the community that seek to prevent and treat disease.
  • Distinguish health concerns that they can manage from those that require professional care.

The following tasks and assignments might be used to determine whether the student is meeting the standard:

  • Using computerized nutrient analysis program and actual grocery store prices, student groups will identify the lowest cost one-day menu with the greatest nutritional benefit.
  • Students will find and compare two or more advertisements for the same health-related product, select one, and defend their decisions verbally or by cartoon depiction.
  • Students will develop a list of consumer “bill of rights,” investigate (through the Internet) consumer advocate groups, and compare the class-generated list with existing lists. Health Education Standards

High School

Students in high school who meet this standard will be able to:

  • Apply criteria for selecting health services, products, and information.
  • Develop strategies for identifying and combating fraudulent health products, services, and information.
  • Analyze the influence of advertising and marketing on the selection of healthful and nutritional products.
  • Analyze how individual citizens and communities can promote a healthy and safe environment.
  • Identify resources that should be conserved to protect health and to improve environmental quality.

The following tasks and assignments might be used to determine whether the student is meeting the standard:

  • Students will develop criteria for selecting reliable and valid health services, products, and information.
  • Students will create a public service announcement that promotes a safe and healthy environment.
  • Students will select an advertisement and evaluate its influence on consumer choices.