Grade 7 Health North Carolina standards Standards

Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, and other Drugs

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Interpersonal Communications and Healthy Relationships

Personal and Consumer Health

Mental and Emotional Health

Analyze the health risks associated with alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, drugs, and other mind-altering substances.

Explain the link between addiction to alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, drugs, and other mind- altering substances to chronic disease and other risky behaviors.

Explain health risks resulting from injection drug use.

Discuss consequences of over the counter and prescription medicine misuse.

Explain how drug dependence and addiction create barriers to achieving personal goals.

Explain how drug use can negatively impact decision making and problem solving.

Develop strategies to avoid nicotine products, alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs.

Discuss methods of avoiding peer pressure and social media pressures regarding nicotine products.

Understand healthy and effective interpersonal communications and relationships.

Contrast characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Predict short-term and long-term consequences of violence to perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.

Demonstrate safe and effective ways to manage and resolve conflict.

Identify risks of becoming a perpetrator or victim of bullying via social media.

Recognize that all people have inherent value and dignity and contribute much in life, regardless of differences.

Discuss the appropriate role of bystander in preventing and stopping bullying and violence.

Explain the physical, social, and emotional benefits of choosing to abstain from sexual activity until marriage.

Explain how family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors can affect sexual health decisions including remaining abstinent from sexual activity until marriage.

Analyze the meaning of the term abstinence in the context of sexual health and living a healthy life.

Explain that sexual activity includes physical contact between individuals involving intimate/private areas of the body that can potentially result in pregnancy, STIs, and/or emotional consequences.

Explain strategies that develop and maintain reproductive and sexual health.

Recognize common STIs (including HIV & HPV), modes of transmission, symptoms, effects if untreated, and FDA-approved methods of prevention.

Summarize the FDA-approved methods for avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

List ways that different forms of sexual assault and sexual abuse can physically, mentally, or emotionally harm a person.

Explain sex trafficking and the ways victims are groomed and recruited.

Explain the importance of reporting actual or suspected sexual abuse of self or others to a parent, guardian, trusted adult, or local authority.

Recognize abstinence is the only certain means of avoiding pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and other associated health and emotional problems.

Analyze the relationship between healthy expression of emotions, mental health, and healthy behaviors.

Explain how emotions change during adolescence.

Describe the potential outcomes of impulsive behaviors.

Identify resources for mental and emotional health.

Evaluate positive stress management strategies.

Assess a variety of stress management techniques.

Design a stress management plan.

Identify help-seeking strategies for mental health challenges.

Identify numerous resources that would be appropriate for supporting mental health challenges.

Implement strategies to seek help from a parent, guardian, or trusted adult when noticing harmful and/or negative thoughts or behaviors.

Apply resources to plan and employ balanced nutrition and physical activity plans.

Develop a balanced dietary plan.

Develop a balanced physical activity plan.

Identify the health benefits of consuming adequate amounts of water.

Apply healthy nutrition and physical activity concepts to enhance quality of life.

Design goals for enhancing physical activity and strategies for achieving those goals.

Implement a personal health plan that balances nutrition and physical activity.

Understand wellness, disease prevention, and recognition of symptoms.

List personal behaviors that are risk factors of chronic illnesses.

Name the social determinants of health and how they relate to chronic illnesses.

Explain mental and physical consequences of inadequate rest and sleep.

Explain the effects of excessive sun exposure on your overall health and the importance of regular skin checks.

Analyze the immune system in terms of the organs, their functions, and their interrelationships.

Describe the parts of the immune system and their purpose.

Explain how the immune system functions to protect the body.

Identify strategies to protect your immune system.

Demonstrate health literacy when evaluating health claims for misinformation and bias.

Identify resources that help to make educated decisions on health services and products.

Discuss misconceptions about health and the efficacy of health products and services.

Analyze necessary steps to prevent and respond to unintentional injury.

Deconstruct the interaction of individual behaviors, the environment, and other factors that cause or prevent injuries.

Demonstrate techniques of basic first aid and procedures for treating injuries and emergencies.

Design plans that reduce the risk of fire-related injuries at home, in school, and in the community at large.

Create a plan to reduce the risk of water-related injuries.