Health education teaches behavior-focused skills for healthy lifestyles (e.g. health literacy).

Health education teaches behavior-focused skills for healthy lifestyles (e.g. health literacy).

Health education teaches behavior-focused skills for healthy lifestyles (e.g. health literacy).

D. "Health education" means the instructional program that provides the opportunity to motivate and assist all students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. It meets the content Standard with benchmarks and performance Standard as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC.

A. Content standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention. Students will:

• (1) grades 9-12 benchmark 1: analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease prevention; grades 9-12 performance Standard:
• (a) differentiate between risks and benefits regarding choices in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being;
• (b) identify alternatives to health risk behaviors in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being (i.e., abstinence, condom use, other pregnancy prevention methods, selection of healthy food choices, "natural highs," etc.);
• (c) identify ways to avoid health risk behaviors in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being; discuss and analyze the difference(s) between healthy and unhealthy relationships;
• (d) explain how attitude(s) and behavior(s) affect health of self and others;

A. Content standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention. Students will:

• (1) grades 5-8 benchmark 1: explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness, disease and premature death;
• (b) grades 7-8 performance Standard:
• (i) understand risk factors and their association with health consequences in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being;
• (ii) understand how healthy alternatives can replace unhealthy behaviors (i.e., abstinence, condom use, other pregnancy prevention methods, selection of healthy food choices, "natural highs," etc.);
• (iii) analyze how personal daily choices can affect future health status;