Grade 8

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 how physical and social environments can affect personal health.

Describe specific behaviors that can reduce or prevent injuries and communicable or chronic diseases. (refraining from alcohol, tobacco, other drug use, engage in physical activity, virtuous living, healthy eating...) 

Analyze the relationships between healthy behaviors and personal health

Predict outcomes, short and long term, of a variety of unhealthy behaviors

Identify the causes and effects of viruses and how to prevent the spread

Examine the interrelationships of various dimensions of health (spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, social, environmental and occupational)

Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated

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.

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 and life giving relationships

Examine how social policies can influence health behaviors 

Examine the effects of personal, spiritual, social and emotional health on the greater community

Identify sources of reliable health information and services

Describe situations that require accurate health information

Describe criteria for evaluating

Understand the costs and validity of common health products, services and information

Identify resources for Catholic teachings

Examine communication strategies for effective interactions among family, peers, and other others to enhance health

Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks

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

Describe the different types of love. eg: storge (affection for persons or things), philia (friendship), eros (romantic), agape (sacrifice/self giving) (ToB)

Understand how to apply the four types of love. (ToB)

Explain that friendships should cultivate trust, love, and honor among people. (ToB)

Describe that the purpose of dating is to discern the right person to marry (ToB)

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

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

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

Identify the impact of personal health goals, personal, physical, spiritual emotional and social on self and others

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 (tobacco, substance abuse, alcohol...)

Demonstrate a variety of health practices that will maintain or improve the health of self and others including appropriate preventative health care services and first aid (Basic First Aid, CPR, AED...)

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)

Analyze 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

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

Understand that any impediments to fertility go against our openness to life (different types of contraception are not to be explained, shown, or described.)

Explain the Catholic teaching that we must be open to all life so our decisions have to be aware of the purpose of the action). (ToB)