Grade 6 Health Minnesota Standards

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

The student will analyze how information from peers influences health.

The student will demonstrate the ability to utilize resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information.

The student will demonstrate strategies to manage stress.

The student will demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems on the individual.

The student will describe the possible causes of conflict among youth in schools.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

The student will demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

The student will distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships.

The student will predict how media influences the selection of health information, products, and services.

Students will analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

The student will demonstrate strategies to manage conflict in healthy ways.

The student will describe how the family and peers influence the health of individuals.<ul><li>Alcohol and Other Drugs</li><li>Community and Environmental Health</li><li>Family Life and Sexuality</li><li>Injury Prevention</li><li>Mental Health</li><li>Nutrition</li><li>Personal and Consumer Health</li><li>Physical Activity</li><li>Tobacco</li></ul>

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

The student will demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

The student will apply strategies and skills needed to attain personal health goals.