ALEX Classroom Resources

ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (7) 3 :
7.1.3) Determine barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Examples: lack of finances, access to health services, social support

a. Examine how nutritional choices and psychological issues may lead to eating disorders.

[HE] HED (9-12) 22 :
HE.5.1) Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision-making.

Examples: peer pressure, cultural pressures, socio-economic status

Subject: Health Education (7 - 12)
Title: Free Eye Exams and Glasses Give Students Vision to Learn
URL: https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/free-eye-exams-newshour/free-eye-exams-newshour/
Description:

About 25 percent of students in Baltimore who need glasses do not have access to them due to their high cost and the high level of poverty in Baltimore. City health department officials, a nonprofit organization called Vision to Learn, and other volunteers are working together to provide the exams, prescriptions, and fashionable glasses.


   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (7) 3 :
7.1.3) Determine barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Examples: lack of finances, access to health services, social support

a. Examine how nutritional choices and psychological issues may lead to eating disorders.

[HE] (7) 7 :
7.2.2) Explain how communities can affect personal health practices and behaviors.

Examples: public policies regarding water pollution, air quality, tobacco use

[HE] (7) 8 :
7.2.3) Describe how the media can send mixed messages about health.

Examples: advertisements concerning tobacco, alcohol, and nutrition

[HE] (8) 16 :
8.5.1) Predict the impact on self and others when making a health-related decision.

Examples: following a time-management plan, walking to school, limiting caffeine intake, riding with an impaired driver

a. Analyze options as well as outcomes, when pressured by peers to perform illegal acts.

Examples: underage drinking leading to being arrested, injury or death when not wearing a seat belt, riding a motorcycle without a helmet resulting in head injury

[HE] HED (9-12) 1 :
HE.1.1) Predict how health literacy and behaviors can affect health status.

[HE] HED (9-12) 5 :
HE.1.5) Analyze the relationship between access to health care and health status.

Examples: relationship between health insurance coverage and life expectancy; access to medical care including primary care physician, hospital, vaccines

[HE] HED (9-12) 22 :
HE.5.1) Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision-making.

Examples: peer pressure, cultural pressures, socio-economic status

[HE] HA (10-12) 10 :
HA.7.1) Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

[HE] HA (10-12) 11 :
HA.7.2) Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and peers.

Subject: Health Education (7 - 12)
Title: Coal's Deadly Dust - History of Coal-Mine Regulation
URL: https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fln37cdd-soc-blacklung/a-resurgence-in-black-lung-disease-coals-deadly-dust/support-materials/
Description:

Learn how the recent resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis, the most severe form of “black lung” disease, in miners across Appalachia has been linked to the failure of coal-mine regulations to limit silica dust levels in these excerpts from Coal’s Deadly Dust | FRONTLINE, in partnership with NPR.


   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] HED (9-12) 6 :
HE.1.6) Compare and contrast the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors.

a. Identify factors that impact nutritional choices.

Examples: planning healthy meals, accessibility of healthy and unhealthy foods

[HE] HED (9-12) 22 :
HE.5.1) Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision-making.

Examples: peer pressure, cultural pressures, socio-economic status

Subject: Health Education (9 - 12)
Title: Barriers to Healthy Decision Making
URL: https://prezi.com/oli3vp42qf-3/barriers-to-healthy-decision-making/
Description:

This resource is a Prezi presentation created by Matt Searles. He explains this idea: "You have to balance between your heart and your brain, leaning too much towards one side leads to problems. Sometimes, the best decision isn't the easiest path to take... but, it is the right one in the long term." The Prezi presentation provides barriers to healthy decision making.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.


   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] HED (9-12) 8 :
HE.2.1) Analyze the influence of external factors on health beliefs and behaviors.

a. Analyze how family, culture, school, and community influence the health practice and behaviors of individuals.

Examples: explaining how holiday celebrations and traditions such as over indulgence in eating and consuming alcohol affect health behaviors; explaining how extra-curricular activities and schedules result in over-consumption of fast food

b. Examine how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

c. Examine how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Example: influence of media on teen body image, sexual activity, drugs, alcohol, violence, cyber-bullying.

d. Cite evidence of how public health policies and government regulations can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

[HE] HED (9-12) 13 :
HE.3.1) Evaluate the accessibility and validity of health information, products, and services.

Example: determining the credibility of resources both online and offline

[HE] HED (9-12) 16 :
HE.3.4) Explain current laws related to underage drinking, distracted driving, and driving under the influence.

[HE] HED (9-12) 22 :
HE.5.1) Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision-making.

Examples: peer pressure, cultural pressures, socio-economic status

[HE] HED (9-12) 29 :
HE.7.1) Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

a. Describe healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Examples: effective communication skills and safety techniques, reading and understanding medicine labels, immunizations, wellness checkups and compliance

b. Identify negative behaviors that increase health risks to self and others.

Examples: distracted driving, drinking and driving, illegal drug use, vaping, smoking, unprotected sex, behaviors resulting in intentional or unintentional injuries, poor eating habits, physical inactivity

c. Compare and contrast the responsibilities of both parents in teen parenting.

Examples: shared responsibilities; social, financial and educational challenges

Subject: Health Education (9 - 12)
Title: Drunk News or Fake News
URL: https://www.pecentral.org/LessonIdeas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=133667#.XP5mufU1uUk
Description:

This activity is designed to open students' eyes to the consequences of binge drinking and bad choices. A secondary purpose is to have students use critical thinking skills to try to determine if the information given to them is credible.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.


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