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MCS Health Standards
Standard #1:
Students should be able to demonstrate effectively knowledge and skills for good mental, social, and physical health and safety.
This standard provides opportunities for students to use literacy, numerical skills, and critical thinking and problem solving skills to gather, analyze, and apply health information. In classrooms where students demonstrate health-related knowledge and effective skills, students complete assignments to obtain accurate, health-related information; identify misconceptions; recognize healthy behaviors and norms; understand their susceptibility to specific health threats; recognize pressures that put them at risk; and identify, practice, and carry out actions that will help them protect their health and well-being.
For example, when elementary students illustrate safe practices for injury prevention and accident management, they are effectively communicating with different audiences, through a variety of mediums, to achieve different purposes. When middle school students research their family genetic history and interpret the information to determine their personal health risks, they are locating and organizing different kinds of information to accomplish meaningful tasks. And when high school students analyze their personal health habits in order to identify risks associated with pathogen transmission and disease prevention, they are identifying and assessing the benefits, risks, and consequences of decisions and actions.
All Memphis City Schools Health, Physical Education and Lifetime Wellness students will be engaged in the acquisition of health and fitness knowledge and skills. As students progress toward mastery of this standard, they will be preparing themselves to be self-directed learners, effective communicators, and critical thinkers and problem solvers.
Specific Expectations
1. Analyze how personal health is influenced by proper and improper functioning of the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, excretory, muscular, nervous, sensory, skeletal, reproductive, and respiratory systems.
2. Assess one's health needs and risk factors (e.g., dietary practices, pathogens, heredity, environment) and determine effective strategies for health enhancement and risk reduction.
3. Demonstrate strategies for prevention and management of injuries and accidents.
4. Describe the effects of proper and improper drug-use on self, family, and society and assess short- and long-term consequences.
5. Communicate emotions, feelings, and ideas in positive ways and demonstrate skills (collaboration, negotiation, refusal, goal-setting, decision-making, and conflict resolution) for effective, responsible interpersonal relationships.
Standard #2:
Students should be able to make and communicate sound judgments about the influences of culture, media, technology, and other factors on personal, family, and community health and fitness.
This standard provides students with opportunities to access the most current, credible, and applicable information required to make and communicate sound health-related decisions pertaining to culture, media, technology, and other factors.
For example when younger students work together to produce a visual representation describing the influence of culture on health and fitness practices, they are working with team members from diverse backgrounds to accomplish group goals. When intermediate students analyze and describe how the media seeks to influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors concerning health and fitness, they are distinguishing between fact, opinion, and interpretation. When high school students modify cultural habits to improve health and fitness practices, they are knowledgeable of cultural diversity in a global society.
All Memphis City Schools Health, Physical Education and Lifetime Wellness students will be engaged in making and communicating sound judgments about health and fitness as it pertains to influences of culture, media, technology, and other factors. As they work toward mastery of this standard, students will be critical thinkers, problem solvers, productive citizens, and effective communicators.
Specific Expectations
1. Assess the impact of culture on personal, family, and community health and fitness.
2. Evaluate the effects of media on personal, family, and community health and fitness.
3. Examine the effects of today's technological advancements (e.g., including but not limited to medicine, computers, and transportation) and describe the implications that these advancements may have on health and fitness.
4. Identify factors (e.g., social situations of teen pregnancy, poverty, homelessness, crime/ violence, etc.) which affect personal, family, and community health and fitness.
Standard #3:
Students should be able to demonstrate various forms of movement associated with fitness for life activities.
This standard provides opportunities for students to demonstrate various movements. In the elementary school years, many opportunities should exist for the introduction, practice, and refinement of skills. The middle school years should offer students the opportunity to participate in nonthreatening situations that minimize failure and losing, with variety being the key. However, the high school years should focus on specialization and competency in various forms of movement.
When primary students are developing maturity and versatility in the use of fundamental skills (e.g. running, skipping, throwing, striking), they are developing, presenting, and following logical reasoning. When students in the middle years display motor patterns which have evolved into specialized skills (e.g., a specific dance step, chest pass, catching with a glove), they may have persevered when tasks are not easily accomplished. In high school, when students are selecting a few activities for regular participation on the basis of their interest and ability, they are setting goals and identifying the steps and resources necessary to attain them.
All Memphis City Schools Health, Physical Education, and Lifetime Wellness students will understand the importance of movement as it relates to total health and wellness. All students will be offered many opportunities to demonstrate movement in order to achieve a higher level of health and fitness.
Specific Expectations
1. Demonstrate competence of specific movements, skills, techniques, and strategies used in the performance of a variety of physical activities.
2. Demonstrate sportsmanship and appropriate safety procedures for selected physical fitness activities.
3. Demonstrate competency in a variety of physical fitness activities (e.g., step aerobics, aerobic walking, running/ jogging, dance aerobics, swimming, cycling, rhythmic movement, skating, rollerblading, jump roping activities, racquet activities, circuit training, rowing; and team activities, including softball, volleyball, basketball, and touch football.
Standard #4:
Students should be able to achieve and maintain physical fitness through knowledge of a variety of cost-efficient personal fitness programs, strategies, and products.
This standard provides opportunities for students to achieve a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Students are encouraged to develop higher levels of basic fitness and physical competence needed for many work situations and active leisure participation.
When primary students are identifying changes in the body that occur as a result of physical activity, they are using the "scientific method" to solve problems and create understanding. When intermediate students are analyzing available health and fitness information on exercise equipment, they are reading with comprehension and identifying the main points expressed in written text. When high school seniors are participating in a variety of dynamic activities that improves and maintains components of fitness, they are using technology to solve problems and produce quality products.All Memphis City Schools Health, Physical Education and Lifetime Wellness students will be engaged in achieving and maintaining physical fitness. Knowledge of personal fitness programs, strategies, and products will allow them to progress toward a higher level of health and fitness. As students progress toward mastery of this standard, they will be preparing themselves to be responsible, productive citizens.
Specific Expectations
1. Analyze and evaluate a variety of physical fitness activities which promote personal health and fitness.
2. Access and evaluate valid health and fitness information, products, and services in the community.
3. Assess individual fitness and design and evaluate a personal fitness program to meet one's lifestyle and resources.