Grade 7

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Students understand the principles of spiritual, physical, and mental health promotion, illness prevention, and safety. 

Family , Community and Other Influences on Health Behaviors Students discern the influence of family, peers, community, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors.

Health Information and Services to Enhance Health Students demonstrate the ability to access accurate, valid health information from reliable sources that promote Catholic teachings.

Interpersonal Communication to Enhance Health Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal skills to enhance health.

Goal Setting and Decision-making Skills to Enhance Health Students demonstrate the ability to use goal setting and decision-making skills to enhance health. 

Behavior to Reduce Health Risks Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid and reduce health risks

Advocate for Personal, Family and Community Health Students demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

Human Growth and Development Students understand that the human body and its systems are a gift from God and all systems work intricately together. Internal and external factors influence growth and development and the structure and function of human body systems.

Identify the components of health promotion and disease prevention.

Adopt a virtuous lifestyle as a way of health promotion and safety 

Describe negative consequences of engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Identify communicable, chronic, and degenerative disease processes and the differences 

Discuss how the body fights infection 

Describe how genetics and family history can affect personal health

Examine healthy behaviors and consequences related to a health issue

Know that parents are present to guide you to choose what is good. The 4th Commandment tells us to honor our fathers and our mothers.

Examine how one’s Catholic values and beliefs influence personal health behaviors 

Understand God gives us the freedom to choose what is right and good.

Provide examples of how factors can interact to influence physical, mental, emotional, social and community health

Understand and identify the dangerous effects of commercials, TV programs, music, video games and internet websites that do not promote the dignity of human life

Identify sources of reliable health information and services

Describe criteria for evaluating reliable resources

Describe situations that require accurate health information

Identify situations that require professional health care or a 911 call

Identify resources for Catholic teachings

Examine and demonstrate communication strategies that enhance health and avoid health risks

Demonstrate refusal and limit setting skills that avoid health risks

Demonstrate effective conflict resolution skills

Demonstrate ways, such as restorative justice practices to manage or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others

Explain the differences between infatuation and love

Identify strategies for coping with stress

Understand God gives us the freedom to choose what is right and good. This is called free will.

Understand that because of free will, each person is responsible for the decisions one makes

Determine when individual or collaborative decision-making is appropriate

Predict the impact of each decision on self and others

Examine how personal health goals can be impacted by various abilities, priorities, and responsibilities that may change throughout the lifespan

Identify personal health goals, personal, physical, spiritual emotional and social

Explain the importance of personal responsibility in maintaining or improving health of self and others

Evaluate the effects of behaviors and situations that maintain or improve the health of self and others

Understand that when the gift of our sexuality is used out of context or the way it was designed, unwanted diseases, hurt feelings, and emotional problems could result (ToB)

Describe the importance of following appropriate first aid in different situations

Predict how an advocacy plan will influence and support the health status of others

Apply a plan to advocate for a health issue for people that experience health disparities

Defend a position relating to a health issue

Describe ways to adapt health messages for different audiences

Identify all human body systems and their role in the body

Explain ways to keep each of the systems healthy

Explain the progression of pregnancy and development of human life beginning with conception through the timeframes of trimesters (describe miscarriages, progesterone levels decrease and a baby’s life ends early) (ToB) 

Identify strategies for coping with concerns related the changes that occur during adolescence

Understand the Catholic teaching on human sexuality, Theology of the Body