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SD Content Standards Correlation

SD HEALTH EDUCATION CONTENT STANDARDS
K-12

Goal 3-DECISION MAKING/GOAL SETTING/SELF-MANAGEMENT
Students will understand the benefits of practicing health-enhancing behaviors that reduce health risks.

Indicator 1: Students will evaluate health-enhancing behaviors that promote wellness.

Grade Level Standards

Second Grade

  1. describe how using drugs can be a helpful or harmful behavior.

Third Grade

  1. explain reasons for medicine and chemical substance use or abuse.

Fourth Grade

  1. explain reasons why people do or do not abuse specific drugs.

Fifth Grade

  1. explain the effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs on the body.
  2. identify factors that cause people to use or misuse drugs.

Sixth Grade

  1. identify examples of peer pressure which result in risky behaviors, e.g., use of alcohol, other drugs.

Seventh Grade

  1. investigate short and long term effects of risky behavior on health, e.g., tobacco use /bad breath, addiction;
  2. describe examples of peer and family influences which result in risky behaviors, e.g., use of tobacco by parent or older sibling.

Eighth Grade

  1. describe short and long term effects of risky behavior on health, e.g., alcohol/FAS; sexual activity/STDs; smoking/lung disease.
  2. analyze types of peer pressure which result in risky behaviors, e.g., use of alcohol, other drugs, sexual activity.

Ninth-Twelfth Grade

  1. evaluate the mental, emotional, and physical effects of risky behavior on health, e.g., drug use, sexual activity.
  2. Evaluate examples of social pressure which result in risky behaviors, e.g., drinking and driving, fad diets.