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Decision Making  - STANDARD 2.2B  

Place a "+" in skill the student demonstrates and a "-" in skill student doesn't exhibit

  By the end of Grade 2, students will:
  1. Explain the steps to making an effective health decision.
  2. Discuss how parents, peers, and the media influence health decisions.
 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:
  1. Outline the steps to making an effective decision.
  2. Discuss how parents, peers, and the media influence health decisions and behaviors.
  3. Describe situations that might require a decision about health and safety.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:
  1. Demonstrate effective decision making in health and safety situations.
  2. Analyze the influence of family, peers, and the media on health decisions and investigate how conflicting interests may influence decisions and choices.
  3. Analyze significant health decisions and discuss how the outcome(s) might have been different if a different decision had been made.
  4. Explain how personal ethics influence decision making.
 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:
  1. Demonstrate and assess the use of decision-making skills in health and safety situations.
 

2. Compare and contrast the influence of peers, family, the media, and past experiences on the use of decision-making skills and predict how these influences may change or conflict as one ages.
  3. Predict social situations and conditions that may require adolescents and young adults to use decision making skills.
  4. Discuss how ethical decision making requires careful thought and action.
 

5. Critique significant health decisions and discuss how the outcome(s) might have changed if the appropriate communication and decision-making skills had been employed.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
  1. Demonstrate and evaluate the use of decision making skills.
  2. Evaluate factors that influence major health decisions and predict how those factors will change or conflict at various life stages.
  3. Use reliable and valid health information to assess social situations and conditions that impact health and safety.
  4. Analyze the use of ethics and personal values when making decisions.
  5. Critique significant health decisions and debate the choices made.

 

5. Predict the short-and long-term impacts of substance abuse on the individual, the family, the community, and society.