Course Title: Middle School Health State: TN State Course Title: Middle School Health State Standards: Tennessee Health Education Standards, Grade 8 Date of Standards: 2024 Percentage of Course Aligned: 97%
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Grade 8 Personal Wellness Nutrition 8.N.1 Describe body composition and eating disorders, and practice principles of food safety.
Middle School Health
Unit 1: What is Health?
Lesson 3
Learning more about the effects of media messages on body image and examining different scenarios of the power of these influences
Critical Thinking 2, 4, 5
8.N.2 Apply formulas such as body mass index to demonstrate how healthy nutrition can affect body composition.
Not Met
8.N.3 Analyze the relationship between nutrition, fitness, and healthy weight management for the Middle School Health prevention of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and eating disorders.
Unit 1: What is Health?
Lessons 4, 5
8.N.4 Analyze lifelong nutrition and health-related fitness to enhance quality of life.
Unit 1: What is Health?
Activity
8.N.5 Demonstrate the ability to access nutrition information, products, and services; determine their accuracy and validity on nutrition claims.
Fully Met
Middle School Health
Exploring the effects of good nutrition and fitness on health and the role of Cumulative Project 1; Activities 1, 2 key nutrients, such as protein, carbohydrates, etc. Researching and reporting on comparing foods and making Cumulative Project 1; Activity 2 healthier selections and reflecting on lifelong health influences Reading food labels and online menu guides to gain valuable information Critical Thinking 5; Activity 2 for making healthier food choices
Fully Met
Fully Met
Middle School Health
Unit 1: What is Health?
Lessons 4, 5
Fully Met
Middle School Health
Unit 1: What is Health?
Lesson 4
Exploring the effects of good nutrition and physical activity on overall health Cumulative Project 1; Activities 1, 2 and creating plans for developing strategies
Fully Met
Unit 5: Looking Beyond
Lesson 3
Identifying key practices for becoming a health advocate and helping others, such as being a health model, offering Critical Thinking 1; Activity support, sharing experiences, connecting others with resources, etc.
Fully Met
8.GH.3 Differentiate between the need for individual or collaborative decision-making and identify Middle School Health circumstances that can support or hinder decision-making and goal setting.
Unit 6: A Lifelong Journey
Lesson 2
8.GH.4 Analyze how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.
Middle School Health
Unit 5: Beyond Safety
Activity
8.GH.5 Analyze various methods to measure person’s health status.
Middle School Health
Unit 6: A Lifelong Journey
Lesson 1
8.GH.6 Evaluate individual, group, and societal influences that promote positive and negative health behaviors.
Middle School Health
Unit 1: What is Health?
Lessons 2, 3
General Health 8.GH.1 Compare and contrast choices that can impact more than one area of health (ex. Walking improves both physical and mental health and vaping causes damages to lungs and increases agitation).
8.GH.2 Demonstrate advocacy skills to promote healthy decisions and behaviors.
Middle School Health
Discussing steps in effective goalmaking and the effects on social, Critical Thinking 1, 3; Cumulative Project 1; Activity emotional, and physical health Creating a personal safety plan that includes best practices for some Cumulative Project 5 aspect of personal or community heath Learning the valuable skills of applying pros and cons when making Critical Thinking 2, 3; Cumulative Project 1; Activity decisions that affect both the self and others Identifying different influencers on health, including peers, family habits, Critical Thinking 1, 2; Cumulative Project 1 cultural practices, personal values,
Fully Met
Fully Met
Fully Met
Fully Met
media usage, and more Personal Hygiene 8.PH.1 Discuss the physical, emotional, and social implications of personal hygiene.
Middle School Health
Unit 6: A Lifelong Journey
Activity
8.PH.2 Differentiate personal hygiene practices and health/safety issues related to puberty (e.g., but not limited to, showering, use of sanitary products, deodorant, and cleaning of athletic gear).
Middle School Health
Unit 2: My Body and My Mind
Lesson 1
Researching and reporting on effective self care habits, including Activity daily hygiene and cleaning Examining puberty and the physical changes as well as the other Critical Thinking 1, 5; Discussion 1 developments, such as hormones and brain growth
Fully Met
Fully Met