High School Health Michigan Standards

CONTENT REQUIRED BY STATE LAW

Information and Resource Seeking: Access, evaluate, and use valid and reliable health information, products, services, and related resources.

Decision Making and Problem Solving: Make health-promoting, informed, responsible decisions and solve problems in a variety of health-related situations.

Balanced Eating and Physical Activity

Analyze the role of technology and social media tools in supporting healthy eating and active lifestyles.

Analyze the impact of a variety of factors (e.g., culture, life choices, economics, motivation, and accessibility) on people’s participation in physical activity.

Community and Environmental Health

Explore the impact of social drivers of health (e.g., education, social environment, socioeconomic conditions, public safety) on individuals at different levels (e.g., interpersonal, intrapersonal, community, policy).

Evaluate the influence of social context/environment, not solely personal choices, on an individual’s health.

Discuss various factors that can influence public, community, and/or environmental health and analyze strategies for mitigating harm and improving health outcomes.

Analyze the behavioral (e.g., sedentary lifestyle, smoking, dietary habits) and environmental factors (e.g., policies, access and availability, built environment) that contribute to major chronic diseases (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer).

Identify and evaluate global influences (e.g., pollution, global policies) on personal and community health.

Analyze behaviors, policies, and practices in the school community that promote dignity and respect and reduce stigma for all individuals.

Healthy Relationships

Demonstrate how to access valid and reliable information and resources to help maintain positive relationships and get help if in harmful or unhealthy relationships.

Safety

Discuss the role of personal, community, and societal beliefs, values, and actions in creating a culture free of bullying, harassment, and abuse.

Sex Education

Safety

Evaluate potential risks of digital interactions.

Discuss strategies to protect personal information online and on social media.

Apply safe behaviors to promote privacy, well-being, and respectful online communication.

Balanced Eating and Physical Activity

Evaluate the opportunity for social interaction and social support in a variety of physical activities in and out of school.

Analyze the impact of extreme or fad diets and how social influences can encourage unhealthy eating behaviors.

Healthy Relationships

Demonstrate ways to express understanding of and acceptance of differing perspectives.

Use assertive communication techniques in various settings and with a variety of audiences to meet personal needs and maintain or enhance overall health.

Summarize the importance of talking with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults about issues related to relationships.

Use effective strategies (e.g., boundary setting, maintaining personal boundaries, respecting others’ boundaries, I-statements, stating your needs, recognizing warning signs) to leave negative relationships and improve or maintain positive relationships.

Summarize the benefits of respecting individual differences.

Analyze how various factors and behaviors influence conflict and strategies to avoid escalation.

Demonstrate effective ways to communicate with trusted adults about bullying, harassment, abuse, assault, discrimination, or exploitation.

Appropriately resolve interpersonal conflicts in various settings (e.g., school, family, work, community, and personal relationships).

Demonstrate empathy (e.g., active listening, withholding judgment, compassion) toward others.

Demonstrate communication skills that account for the perspective of others while allowing for active and effective social engagement.

Evaluate verbal, physical, and non-verbal social, cultural, and environmental cues to predict and respond to the emotions and communication style of others.

Mental and Emotional Health

Describe positive (e.g., developmental assets, protective factors, resilience, supportive adult relationships) and negative factors (e.g., trauma, adversity) that can affect mental and emotional health and well-being.

Demonstrate strategies for expressing understanding towards those who hold different beliefs.

Evaluate how society, cultural norms, and values affect personal interactions.

Evaluate the influence of peers, social media, online content, family, society, community, and culture on body image and the influence body image has on health.

Evaluate personal comfort with engagement in social situations and create a plan for personal growth in social engagement.

Analyze power imbalances in relationships and demonstrate strategies that communicate your values, your right to say no, and your ability to hold others accountable for their actions.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate about mental health in culturally responsive ways that reduce stigma.

Communicate when there is a concern about one’s own or someone else’s mental well-being or when someone is considering self-harm or suicide.

Sex Education

Summarize the importance of talking with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults about issues related to growth and development, abstinence, and sexual health.

Balanced Eating and Physical Activity

Evaluate the validity of claims made by companies and social media influencers intended to promote or improve nutrition, fitness, and a healthy, active lifestyle.

Evaluate available resources, supports, and participation requirements of community-sponsored activities, physical activity, and fitness activities.

Evaluate the opportunity for social interaction and social support in a variety of physical activities in and out of school.

Community and Environmental Health

Identify cost-effective ways to minimize environmental pollutants (e.g., chemicals, trash, noise) in the home and in the community.

Healthy Relationships

Explain the harm that can be caused by disrespecting others with differing views and beliefs, and demonstrate positive ways to express understanding of differing perspectives.

Use assertive communication techniques, including refusals, in a variety of settings and with a variety of audiences to meet personal needs and maintain or enhance overall health.

Summarize the importance of talking with parents, guardians, caregivers, and/or other trusted adults about issues related to relationships.

Use effective strategies (e.g., boundary setting, maintaining personal boundaries, respecting others’ boundaries, I-statements stating your needs, recognizing warning signs) to leave negative relationships and improve or maintain positive relationships.

Summarize the benefits of respecting individual differences.

Reflect on the role individual behaviors and external factors have in a conflict and discuss how individual behaviors and external factors may inform the ability to resolve conflict in the future.

Demonstrate effective ways to communicate with trusted adults about bullying, harassment, abuse, assault, discrimination, or exploitation.

Appropriately resolve interpersonal conflicts in various settings (e.g., school, family, work, community, and personal relationships).

Demonstrate empathy (e.g., active listening, withholding judgment, compassion) toward others.

Demonstrate communication skills that account for the perspective of others while allowing for active and effective social engagement.

Evaluate verbal, physical, and non-verbal social, cultural, and environmental cues to predict and respond to the emotions and communication style of others.

Mental and Emotional Health

Demonstrate how to access valid and reliable mental health information and resources to help or support someone who has experienced harassment, abuse, assault, discrimination, and/or exploitation.

Discuss the variety of supports available at home, school, and in the community for maintaining or enhancing mental and emotional health.

Evaluate the valid and reliable resources from home, school, and community that provide health information on enhancing mental and emotional well-being.

Use valid and reliable resources to find information and access support on mental health issues and conditions for self or others.

Recognize the signs of problem behaviors and/or addictions (e.g., gambling, overuse of social media) and demonstrate strategies for seeking help for self or others.

Use valid and reliable resources to find information on risk factors for, and signs and symptoms of, suicide ideation or non-suicidal self-injury.

Sex Education

Summarize the benefits of respecting individual differences in aspects of growth and development

Summarize the importance of talking with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults about issues related to growth and development and sexual health.

Substance Use and Misuse

Substance Use and Misuse

Evaluate the validity of information, products, services, and resources intended to help a person make health-promoting choices when making decisions related to legal substance use.

Use valid and reliable information to analyze the relationship between the use of legal and illegal (regarding legal age of use and type) substances and the causes of death (including overdose) and disease (including addiction) in the United States.

Use valid and reliable information to analyze the relationship between the use of legal and illegal (regarding legal age of use and type) substances and the causes of death (including overdose) and disease (including addiction) in the United States.

Recognize the signs of substance misuse and addiction and demonstrate strategies for seeking help for self or others.

Identify resources and support systems available to help navigate challenging situations pertaining to substance use and misuse.

Identify laws that protect a person who calls for professional help during a substance use crisis (e.g., Good Samaritan laws).

Access valid and reliable resources to determine laws regarding the purchase, distribution, and selling of substances (e.g., dispensaries, on the street, stores, legal vs. illegal, travel across state lines).

Determine when professional services related to legal and illegal substances may be required.

Balanced Eating and Physical Activity

Identify snacks, food, and beverage choices that support or interfere with performance, recovery, and enjoyment during physical activity.

Plan a weekly menu to meet age-appropriate recommendations within a specific budget.

Choose an appropriate level of challenge based on your current skill level to experience success in a self-selected physical activity.

Evaluate opportunities and barriers to physical activity in a variety of contexts.

Healthy Relationships

Examine aspects of various personal relationships, including characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Analyze the benefits and risks of various ways people express love and/or caring within health-promoting relationships.

Analyze the role of individual versus shared responsibility in building and maintaining healthy relationships.

Describe patterns of power and control in relationships and discuss strategies for getting help and leaving an unhealthy, violent, or exploitative relationship.

Discuss different forms of abuse in relationships and available supports and resources for getting help if in an abusive or exploitative relationship.

Evaluate strategies (e.g., setting expectations and/or boundaries) for dealing with difficult relationships with family members, peers, and partners and demonstrate the ability to use these strategies to make health-promoting decisions.

Examine the complexity of, and discuss considerations related to, the decision to leave an unhealthy relationship, develop a safety plan to recognize when, and get out of, any future unsafe or harmful relationships, and determine situations when adult and/or professional support is needed.

Demonstrate the ability to apply a thoughtful decision-making process to maintain or enhance relationship health, including the decision to leave or seek help in an unhealthy relationship.

Sex Education

Sex Education

Discuss reasons why it is harmful and illegal to trick, threaten, or coerce another person into sexual activity.

Analyze factors that contribute to behaviors that increase the risk of HIV and other STIs.

Analyze factors that contribute to behaviors that increase the risk of pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.

Explain the importance of STI (including HIV) testing and treatment, where to get tested, and why it is essential to communicate with a partner about STI status.

Explain the importance of STI (including HIV) testing and treatment, where to get tested, and why it is essential to communicate with a partner about STI status.

Identify situations, signs, and symptoms that might indicate a need to seek medical consultation.

Identify situations, signs, and symptoms that might indicate a need to seek medical consultation.

Analyze factors that contribute to behaviors that increase the risk of HIV and other STIs.

Evaluate readiness, options, and their respective outcomes regarding decisions about whether to engage in sexual activity, including abstaining, postponing sexual intercourse, engaging in risk reduction practices (e.g., using condoms and other barriers, using birth control).

Demonstrate the ability to apply a thoughtful decision-making process in situations related to sexual activity and sexual health.

Explain age of consent laws and examine the various components of consent (e.g., consent must be asked for and verbally given, consent cannot be given if under the influence, consent can be taken away at any time).

Substance Use and Misuse

Substance Use and Misuse

Reflect on personal beliefs, values, and choices compared to cultural, community, and societal norms around substance use and misuse.

Analyze the potential short- and long-term impacts of legal and illegal substances on multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, emotional, social, and/or intellectual) and on other health risk behaviors (e.g., sexual activity and impaired driving).

Evaluate situations and how various internal and external factors (e.g., peers, media, social norms, corporate practices) influence substance use and misuse.

Analyze the potential short- and long-term impacts of legal and illegal substances (e.g., opioids) on multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, emotional, social, and/or intellectual) and on other health risk behaviors (e.g., sexual activity, impaired driving, use of other drugs).

Employ self-management skills to act on health-promoting decisions about legal substance use.

Balanced Eating and Physical Activity

Compare and contrast various dietary guidelines and practices from valid and reliable sources, locations, and cultures.

Create a goal and plan for participating in physical activity to maintain or improve health and monitor progress.

Select and participate in physical activities that meet a variety of personal needs (personal goals, strengths, interests, enjoyment, social interaction, and/or self-expression).

Analyze the physical, mental, social, economic, and academic benefits and/or consequences of various dietary habits or behaviors.

Describe safe food storage and preparation practices.

Demonstrate how to comparison shop, considering criteria such as pricing, nutrient density, processing, and environmental impact.

Assess personal nutrition-related practices using dietary guidelines of their choice.

Analyze various factors that influence nutrition-related beliefs and behaviors, and analyze the ways that these factors are affecting personal beliefs and behaviors.

Develop and implement a plan with goals that build on strengths and address areas for improvement through monitoring progress and adjustments as needed.

Analyze barriers (e.g., finances, food availability and access, social norms, media) to succeed with a personal nutrition-related goal and identify supports to help overcome those barriers.

Determine a variety of physical activities that can be implemented independently or with minimal support for the purposes of personal enjoyment or challenge, or to maintain or improve fitness.

Mental and Emotional Health

Apply strategies to respond appropriately based on different levels of emotions in interactions.

Apply coping and stress management techniques to manage a variety of stressors (e.g., school, personal life, relationships) and create a long-term plan for stress management.

Develop and apply strategies using protective factors and assets to support mental and emotional well-being.

Assess and implement health practices and overall health status across multiple dimensions of wellness (e.g., physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social).

Set a goal, create a plan, monitor progress, and celebrate success for plans that minimize stress and promote wellness.

Apply strategies that support a willingness to reflect, learn, and grow from challenges through experience and feedback.

Personal Health and Wellness

Develop a plan and implement strategies based on an identified need or want to attain a goal that improves physical health.

Create a plan that develops ownership of one’s health and healthcare.

Demonstrate strategies to self-advocate in healthcare settings (e.g., getting questions answered, seeking clarity of medical instructions, seeking a prescription refill).

Identify strategies based on an identified need or want to attain a goal that improves physical health.

Demonstrate strategies to self-advocate in healthcare settings (e.g., getting questions answered, seeking clarity of medical instructions, seeking a prescription refill).

Discuss signs and symptoms of health concerns and strategies to manage discomfort and/or seek medical care as needed.

Analyze external factors (such as social drivers of health) that can affect health and one’s agency in addressing health.

Safety

Safety

Analyze recruitment tactics used in trafficking and exploitation to exploit vulnerabilities and recruit youth.

Demonstrate proficiency in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs).

Demonstrate strategies, including risk reduction strategies, that can help avoid or address situations related to sexual exploitation in physical and digital settings.

Evaluate ways and demonstrate strategies to reduce risk and stay safe, follow laws, and act respectfully in physical and digital settings.

Demonstrate strategies for asking for assistance or providing support for self and peers when faced with unsafe situations.

Demonstrate proficiency in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs).

Sex Education

Evaluate personal responsibility and the consequences related to pressuring someone for sexually explicit pictures, sending, or posting sexually explicit pictures or messages.

Community and Environmental Health

Analyze programs, policies, and strategies to reduce and eliminate health inequities and disparities.

Examine data and evaluate policies or initiatives that address a public health concern within the community.

Develop and/or implement a plan for participating in projects to help make positive changes in a community (e.g., volunteering, linking with experts in the community, service-learning, service project).

Identify and support school and community policies and programs that promote respect for all people.

Sex Education

Discuss how to foster empathy, inclusivity, and respect around issues related to gender and sexuality.

GENERAL HEALTH EDUCATION CONTENT

Self-Awareness and Analyzing Influences: Examine how emotions, thoughts, needs, values, beliefs, and other factors (both internal and external) influence behaviors and articulate how these influences affect health behavior and outcomes.

Social Awareness, Relationship, and Communication Skills: Enhance relationships, personal health, and the health of others through social awareness and effective communication.

Information and Resource Seeking: Access, evaluate, and use valid and reliable health information, products, services, and related resources.

Decision Making and Problem Solving: Make health-promoting, informed, responsible decisions and solve problems in a variety of health-related situations.

Self-Management and Goal Setting: Set goals, engage in health-promoting behaviors, and avoid risky behaviors.

Advocacy and Health Promotion: Promote personal, family, and community health and well-being.

LAWS AND STANDARDS GUIDELINES SPECIFIC TO SEX EDUCATION

Self-Awareness and Analyzing Influences: Examine how emotions, thoughts, needs, values, beliefs, and other factors (both internal and external) influence behaviors and articulate how these influences affect health behavior and outcomes.

Social Awareness, Relationship, and Communication Skills: Enhance relationships, personal health, and the health of others through social awareness and effective communication.

Information and Resource Seeking: Access, evaluate, and use valid and reliable health information, products, services, and related resources.

Decision Making and Problem Solving: Make health-promoting, informed, responsible decisions and solve problems in a variety of health-related situations.

Self-Management and Goal Setting: Set goals, engage in health-promoting behaviors, and avoid risky behaviors.

Self-Management and Goal Setting: Set goals, engage in health-promoting behaviors, and avoid risky behaviors.

Advocacy and Health Promotion: Promote personal, family, and community health and well-being.

Social Skills

Influences

Decision Making

Core Concepts

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Apply strategies to avoid and report dangerous situations, including conflicts involving weapons and gangs.

Demonstrate strategies for protection from cold, heat, and sun during physical activity.

Assess personal barriers to healthy eating and physical activity, and develop practical solutions to remove these barriers.

Assess one's personal behavior and how one demonstrates character traits.

Identify the characteristics of positive relationships, and analyze their impact on personal, family, and community health.

Describe routine medical screening and examinations for maintaining reproductive health, and medical tests for pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs: who should be tested, the procedures used, and the importance of early detection and care.

Describe nutrition practices that are important for the health of a pregnant woman and her baby.

Advocate for ways schools and communities can promote a tobacco-free environment.

Health Behaviors

Define and describe bullying, sexual violence, and sexual harassment, and their effects on individuals and communities.

Core Concepts

Assess one's personal preferences regarding healthy eating and physical activity.

Describe how common infectious diseases are transmitted.

Decision Making

Apply decision-making skills to avoid situations that are high risk for pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.

Personal Health and Wellness

Social Skills

Health Behaviors

Apply strategies to access and get help for self or others.

Social and Emotional Health

Access Information

Access Information

Core Concepts

Access Information

Decision Making

Health Behaviors

Describe the short-term and long-term health consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

Goal Setting

Evaluate the characteristics of a conflict which must be managed rather than resolved.

Recommended:

Locate resources in one's community and on the Internet for information and services regarding depression and suicide prevention; and analyze the validity of these resources.

Analyze the importance of rest and sleep for personal health.

Recommended

Demonstrate basic first aid skills (i.e., controlling bleeding, Heimlich maneuver).

Compare and contrast the pros and cons of methods used for pregnancy and disease prevention, including abstinence and use of contraception.

Goal Setting

Identify services and trustworthy adults that provide health information and testing regarding HIV and other STIs, analyze the validity of such resources, and describe how to access valid services.

HIV Prevention

Core Concepts

Access Information

Access Information

Explain how stereotypes, norms, peer influence, alcohol and other drug use, media, and personal responsibility can impact sexual decision making and the consequences of such decisions.

Health Behaviors

Influences

Core Concepts

Recommended

Describe financial, political, social, and legal influences regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Describe the dangers of exposure to UV light, lead, asbestos, pesticides, and unclean air and water, and strategies for avoiding exposure.

Apply strategies to access and get help for self or others.

Assess personal rest and sleep practices and create a personal plan to incorporate rest and sleep in daily routines.

Predict the health benefits of eating healthy and being physically active; and the potential health consequences of not doing so.

Influences

Core Concepts

Analyze the social influences that encourage or discourage a person to practice sun safety.

Apply strategies to stop or de-escalate a conflict.

Core Concepts

Demonstrate the ability to apply listening and assertive communication skills in situations that may involve parents, family members, other trusted adults, peers, boyfriends/girlfriends, and health professionals.

Develop short-term and long-term personal goals and aspirations.

Access Information

Apply decision-making and problem-solving steps to generate alternative solutions regarding social situations that could place one's health or safety at risk.

Predict the potential short- and long-term effects of each alternative on self and others, and defend the healthy choice(s).

Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions.

Goal Setting

Analyze the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among teens.

Health Behaviors

Explain the effects of violence on individuals, families, communities, and our nation.

Demonstrate how to respond constructively to the anger of others.

Decision Making

Summarize the criteria for who should be tested and the advantages of early diagnosis and treatment of HIV and other STIs.

Demonstrate the ability to access accurate information about personal health products.

Health Behaviors

Analyze the role of friends and peers in the escalation of conflicts and the promotion of violence.

Social Skills

Core Concepts

Recommended

Demonstrate the ability to access valid information and resources in one's community and on the Internet related to personal health issues and concerns.

Present a persuasive solution to the problem of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among youth.

Describe personal strategies for minimizing potential harm from exposure to the sun.

Evaluate the impact of media on the prevalence of violence.

Goal Setting

Advocate for nutritional food choices and physical activity at school.

Evaluate one's personal perception of risk for HIV and other STIs.

Health Behaviors

Social Skills

Demonstrate how to seek help for self or others when suicide may be a risk.

Demonstrate communication, negotiation, and refusal skills to protect oneself from situations that could transmit HIV or other STIs.

Demonstrate acceptance for individuals living with HIV.

Decision Making

Apply strategies to hypothetical situations involving abusive relationships.

Demonstrate strategies to stay safe in a violent situation.

Evaluate the physical, social, emotional, legal, and economic impacts of teen pregnancy, teen parenting, HIV infection, or other STIs on personal lifestyle, goal achievement, friends, and family members.

Describe the Michigan laws regarding bullying, sexual violence, and sexual harassment.

Advocacy

Social Skills

Demonstrate skills to avoid tobacco exposure and avoid or resist using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Demonstrate the ability to express emotions constructively, including use of anger management skills.

Prepare meal plans according to the federal dietary guidelines.

Health Behaviors

Safety

Describe the impact of showing empathy for another person's emotions and point of view.

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Demonstrate ways to support others who want to stop using alcohol or tobacco.

Apply strategies, including refusal and assertiveness skills to avoid, manage, and escape situations that are high risk for pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.

Analyze the influence of media on selection of personal health care products.

Health Behaviors

Health Behaviors

Apply knowledge about symptoms of illness to determine whether medical care is required.

Influences

Core Concepts

Describe the warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors for depression and suicide.

Apply decision-making and problem-solving steps to hypothetical problems related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

Summarize the symptoms, modes of transmission, consequences, and methods to prevent HIV and other STIs, and conclude that abstinence is the most effective way to avoid HIV or other STIs.

Sexuality Education

Describe health practices that can prevent the spread of illness.

Demonstrate the ability to use information on food labels to choose nutrient-dense foods and beverages, and to avoid or limit foods and beverages that are low in nutrients or may impact health conditions.

Locate resources in one's community and on the Internet for nutrition information, nutrition services, and help with weight management or unhealthy eating patterns; and assess the validity of the resources.

Locate resources in one's community and on the Internet for information and services regarding alcohol and tobacco use prevention and cessation; and assess the validity of these resources.

Distinguish between facts and myths regarding nutrition practices, products, and physical performance.

Assess one's personal nutrition needs and level of physical activity according to the federal dietary guidelines.

Demonstrate the ability to establish positive relationships, communicate caring and love without sexual intercourse, and communicate personal, sexual limits and values to a girlfriend or boyfriend.

Demonstrate the ability to use conflict resolution skills.

Develop a personal plan for maintaining or improving one's demonstration of character traits.

Influences

Recommended

Analyze social pressures to refrain from telling on others or reporting dangerous situations.

Social Skills

Summarize and explain laws related to the sexual behavior of young people.

Social Skills

Distinguish between unhealthy and healthy ways to manage weight.

Analyze internal and external pressures to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Explain the importance of regular health screenings or exams.

Develop personal goals and a specific plan for using the best contraceptive or disease-prevention method, including abstinence, for individual circumstances.

Apply skills and strategies for avoiding and dealing with sexual harassment and exploitation, including when using the Internet.

Advocacy

Access Information

Influences

Core Concepts

Clarify myths regarding the scope of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among adolescents.

Locate resources in one's community and on the Internet for information and services regarding harassment, violence, and abusive relationships; and assess the validity of these resources.

Describe the characteristics of situations which are dangerous, and those that must be reported to the authorities.

Demonstrate proper use of safety gear during physical activity.

Core Concepts

Identify resources that provide information, counseling, and testing related to relationships, sexual violence, pregnancy, and contraception, including options for teens who are unable to care for a baby; analyze the validity of these resources; and describe how to access valid resources.

Goal Setting

Develop a personal plan for improving one's nutrition, incorporating physical activity into daily routines, and maintaining a healthy weight.

Assess characteristics of hypothetical relationships for warning signs of harm or abuse.

Analyze common behaviors and situations to eliminate or reduce risks related to HIV and other STIs.