National Health Education Standards
Multiple Intelligences
Components of a Health Lesson
Risk Factors
Health Content
100







This standard includes essential topics that are based on established health behavior theories and models
Core Concepts
100







Expertise in using one's whole body to express ideas and feeling
Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence
100







This is the creative introduction to get your students' attention
Grabber or Essential Question
100







This risk factor includes behaviors such as smoking cigarettes or being around second-hand smoke
Tobacco Use
100







This content area focuses on protecting yourself from physical violence and abuse, staying away from gangs, and being skilled in first-aid procedures
Injury Prevention and Safety
200







This standard includes the critical steps needed to achieve both short-term and long-term objectives
Goal Making
200







The capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform, and express song and instrumental forms
Musical Intelligence
200







The means of measuring a student's mastery of the Health Education Standards, the performance indicators, and the life skills
Evaluation or Reflection
200







This risk factor includes behaviors such as binge drinking, marijuana use, or using someone else's prescription drugs
Alcohol and Other Drug Use
200







This content area focuses on maintaining a desirable weight and body composition and developing skills to prevent eating disorders
Nutrition
300







This standard focuses on identifying and understanding different factors that affect health practices and behaviors
Analyzing Influences
300







Self knowledge and the ability to act deceptively on the basis of that knowledge
Intrapersonal Intelligence
300







The step by step process to follow when doing the teaching strategy
Motivation
300







This risk factor includes behaviors such as having multiple partners and a lack of protection during intercourse
Sexual Risk Behaviors
300







This content area focuses on choosing behaviors to reduce the risk of infection and being aware of immunizations to protect your health
Communicable and Chronic Disease
400







This standard helps students develop important skills to target their health enhancing messages and to encourage others to adopt healthy behavior
Advocacy
400







The capacity to use numbers effectively and to reason well
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
400







A series of specific concepts and skills students should know and be able to do in order to achieve each of the broader National Health Education Standards
Performance Indicators
400







This risk factor includes behaviors such as never wearing a seat belt, riding with a driver who has been drinking, or getting into a physical fight
Unintentional and Intentional Injuries
400







This content area focuses on developing healthful relationships
Family and Social Health
500







This standard includes the essential steps that are needed to make healthy choices as prescribed in the performance indicators
Decision Making
500







The ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of other people
Interpersonal Intelligence
500







These help students understand a particular concept or develop and practice a specific life skill or goal
Instructional Strategies
500







This risk factor includes behaviors that include drinking soda, eating lots of junk food, or not eating for 24 or more hours
Dietary Patterns that Contribute to Disease
500







This content area focuses on having regular examinations, following a dental health plan, and getting adequate sleep
Personal and Physical Activity
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