Southington Public Schools
Curriculum Map
Subject: Health (aligned to CSDE Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework)
Grade 6
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
1. Disease Prevention
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Puberty
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to
prevent/reduce risks and promote well-being
M.1.8. Describe how pathogens, family history,
individual decisions, and other risk factors are
related to the cause or prevention of disease and
other health problems
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community
that provide valid health information, products
and services
M.3.4. Apply strategies to improve or maintain
personal and family health by examining
influences, rules and legal responsibilities that
affect decisions
M.7.1. Use the goal-setting process to enhance
health
Students will be able to…
1. Identify and differentiate between
communicable and non-communicable diseases.
2. Analyze their family health history in
connection to personal health and well-being.
3. Identify which pathogens are responsible for
causing certain diseases.
4. Plan an individualized diet and exercise
program to help maintain wellness.
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.1.9. Identify and discuss causes, modes of
transmission, symptoms and prevention methods of
communicable and non-communicable diseases
(e.g., HIV/AIDS…)
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.1.2. Describe the interrelationship of mental,
emotional, social and physical health during preadolescence/adolescence
M.1.10. Describe puberty (“and human reproduction”
covered in grade 8 only) as it relates to medically
accurate comprehensive sexuality education
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the four ways HIV is transmitted.
2. Understand how a person can have HIV and not
have AIDS.
3. Identify the symptoms associated with AIDS.
4. Chronologically list the important historical facts
of HIV and AIDS.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the physical changes that occur during
puberty.
2. Identify the emotional changes that occur during
puberty.
3. Identify similar and different changes that occur in
males and females.
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
4. Hygiene
5. Substance Abuse
6. Bullying
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to
prevent/reduce risks and promote well-being
M.3.1. Explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal heath behaviors
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.3.1. Explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal heath behaviors
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.4.3. Analyze how family, school and peers
influence personal health
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to enhance
health
M.6.3. Predict how decisions regarding health
behaviors have consequences for themselves and
others.
M.8.4. Encourage and support others in making
positive health choices
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the correct steps to make informed
decisions.
2. Cite examples of physical, mental and social
hazards of substance abuse.
3. Identify examples of positive and negative peer
pressure.
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community that
provide valid health information, products and
services
M.5.5. Demonstrate ways to communicate care,
empathy, respect and responsibility for others without
bias, abuse, discrimination or harassment based on,
but not limited to, race, color, sex, religion, national
origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital status,
mental retardation, mental disorder and learning
and/or physical disability
M.5.9. Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage and
resolve conflicts in healthy ways and identify adults
and peers who might assist, when appropriate
Students will be able to…
1. Identify steps to maintain good personal
hygiene.
2. Correlate good personal hygiene to social
health.
3. Practice good hygiene habits.
7. Safety (First Aid)
M.1.5. Analyze ways in which the environment
and personal health are interrelated
M.3.5. Examine and apply safety techniques to
avoid and reduce injury and prevent disease.
Students will be able to…
1. Apply treatment for basic first aid injuries.
2. Take necessary measures to help prevent
sports injuries (i.e., stretching, protective
equipment, etc.).
3. Take safety precautions in the home.
4. Identify actions to take during severe weather
situations.
Students will be able to…
1. Obtain help if bullied.
2. Identify steps to take if bullied.
3. Communicate STOP to a person who is bullying.
Grade 7
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
1. Peer Pressure
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Eating Disorders
M.1.4. Examine how families and peers can
influence the health of adolescents
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or
harmful behaviors involving themselves and/or
others
M.4.3. Analyze how family, school and peers
influence personal health
M.5.2. Use characteristics needed to be a
responsible individual within their peer group,
school, family and community
M.5.7. Demonstrate avoidance, refusal and
negotiation skills to enhance healthy
relationships
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to
enhance health
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.1.9. Identify and discuss causes, modes of
transmission, symptoms and prevention methods of
communicable and non-communicable diseases
(e.g., HIV/AIDS…)
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness,
disease and premature death
M.1.7. Explain how appropriate health care can
prevent premature death and disability
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community that
provide valid health information, products and
services
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to enhance
health
M.8.4. Encourage and support others in making
positive health choices
Students will be able to…
1. Use techniques to resist peer pressure.
2. Use positive peer pressure to accomplish
goals in life.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the four ways HIV is transmitted.
2. Understand how a person can have HIV and not
have AIDS.
3. Identify the symptoms associated with AIDS.
4. Chronologically list the important historical facts
of HIV and AIDS.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify symptoms of anorexia and bulimia.
2. Identify and access available resources that treat
people with eating disorders.
Advocate for someone with an eating disorder.
4. Sexual Harassment/Bullying
5. Substance Abuse
6. Conflict Resolution
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community
that provide valid health information, products
and services
M.4.2. Analyze how media, technology and
other factors influence personal health behaviors
M.5.5. Demonstrate ways to communicate care,
empathy, respect and responsibility for others
without bias, abuse, discrimination or
harassment based on, but not limited to, race,
color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, ancestry, marital status, mental
retardation, mental disorder and learning and/or
physical disability
M.5.9. Demonstrate strategies to prevent,
manage and resolve conflicts in healthy ways
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.3.1. Explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal heath behaviors
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.4.3. Analyze how family, school and peers
influence personal health
M.5.7. Demonstrate avoidance, refusal and
negotiation skills to enhance healthy relationships
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to enhance
health
M.6.3. Predict how decisions regarding health
M.5.3. Identify ways in which emotions may affect
communication, behavior and relationships
M.5.4. Compare and contrast healthy ways to express
needs, wants and feelings
M.5.9. Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage and
resolve conflicts in healthy ways and identify adults
and peers who might assist, when appropriate
Skills
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
and identify adults and peers who might assist,
when appropriate
M.8.7. Assess the impact of family, cultural,
media and societal messages on one’s thoughts,
feelings, values and behaviors related to
sexuality
Students will be able to…
1. Identify sexual harassment or bullying.
2. Comprehend the difference between flirting
and sexual harassment.
3. Communicate STOP to a person who is
sexually harassing or bullying.
4. Identify steps to take if sexually harassed or
bullied.
7. Refusal Skills
behaviors have consequences for themselves and
others.
M.8.4. Encourage and support others in making
positive health choices
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the correct steps to make informed
decisions.
2. Cite examples of physical, mental and social
hazards of substance abuse.
3. Identify examples of positive and negative peer
pressure.
8. Media Influence
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to
prevent/reduce risks and promote well-being
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or
harmful behaviors involving themselves and/or
others
M.4.3. Analyze how family, school and peers
influence personal health
M.5.1. Apply effective verbal and nonverbal
communication skills as a means of enhancing
health
M.5.6. Use communication skills to build and
maintain healthy relationships
M.5.7. Demonstrate avoidance, refusal and
negotiation skills to enhance healthy
relationships
M.5.9. Demonstrate strategies to prevent,
manage and resolve conflicts in healthy ways
and identify adults and peers who might assist,
when appropriate
M.4.2. Analyze how media, technology and other
factors influence personal health behaviors
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to enhance
health
M.8.2. Support a healthy position with accurate
information
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the ways to say “No” to drugs.
2. Recognize high risk situations and know how
to avoid them.
3. Utilize negotiation techniques in order to deal
with high risk situations.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the difference between an advertisement
and a public service announcement.
2. Take the steps necessary to be an informed
consumer.
3. Identify the persuasive techniques used in
advertising.
Students will be able to…
1. Define conflict resolution.
2. Identify and use the correct methods for resolving
conflict peacefully.
3. Identify and access available resources that aid in
conflict resolution.
Grade 8
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
1. Decision-making
2. HIV/AIDS/STDs
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to
enhance health
M.7.1. Use the goal-setting process to enhance
health
M.8.5. Demonstrate the ability to work
cooperatively in small groups when advocating
for healthy individuals, families and schools
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.1.9. Identify and discuss causes, modes of
transmission, symptoms and prevention methods of
communicable and non-communicable diseases
(e.g., HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases…)
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
Students will be able to…
1. Identify decision-making steps.
2. Make effective decisions in a group setting.
3. Correlate good decision making to
achievement of goals.
4. Correlate wise decision-making and
maintenance of good health.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the four ways HIV is transmitted.
2. Understand how a person can have HIV and not
have AIDS.
3. Identify the symptoms associated with AIDS.
4. Chronologically list the important historical facts
of HIV and AIDS.
4. Sexual Harassment/Bullying
5. Substance Abuse
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community
that provide valid health information, products
and services
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or
harmful behaviors involving themselves and/or
others
M.4.2. Analyze how media, technology and
other factors influence personal health behaviors
M.5.5. Demonstrate ways to communicate care,
empathy, respect and responsibility for others
without bias, abuse, discrimination or
harassment based on, but not limited to, race,
color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury,
illness, disease and premature death
M.1.6. Use appropriate strategies to prevent/reduce
risks and promote well-being
M.3.1. Explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal heath behaviors
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.4.3. Analyze how family, school and peers
influence personal health
M.5.7. Demonstrate avoidance, refusal and
negotiation skills to enhance healthy relationships
M.6.1. Use a decision-making process to enhance
3. Suicide
M.1.1. Explain the relationship between positive
health behaviors and the prevention of injury, illness,
disease and premature death
M.1.2. Describe the interrelationship of mental,
emotional, social and physical health during preadolescence/adolescence
M.1.7. Explain how appropriate health care can
prevent premature death and disability
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community that
provide valid health information, products and
services
M.3.3. Distinguish between safe, risky or harmful
behaviors involving themselves and/or others
M.3.6. Apply skills to manage stress
M.5.3. Identify ways in which emotions may affect
communication, behavior and relationships
M.6.2. Describe and analyze how health-related
decisions are influenced by using resources from
family, school and community
M.8.4. Encourage and support others in making
positive health choices
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the warning signs of depression in self and
others.
2. Identify the warning signs of suicide.
3. Identify and access the available resources to help
suicidal people.
6. Stress
M.1.2. Describe the interrelationship of mental,
emotional, social and physical health during preadolescence/adolescence
M.2.2. Demonstrate the ability to locate and use
resources from home, school and community that
provide valid health information, products and
services
M.3.2. Examine personal health status to determine
needs
M.3.6. Apply skills to manage stress
M.5.3. Identify ways in which emotions may affect
communication, behavior and relationships
Skills
Unit Title
Content
State
Standards
Skills
orientation, ancestry, marital status, mental
retardation, mental disorder and learning and/or
physical disability
M.5.9. Demonstrate strategies to prevent,
manage and resolve conflicts in healthy ways
and identify adults and peers who might assist,
when appropriate
M.8.7. Assess the impact of family, cultural,
media and societal messages on one’s thoughts,
feelings, values and behaviors related to
sexuality
Students will be able to…
1. Identify sexual harassment or bullying.
2. Comprehend the difference between flirting
and sexual harassment.
3. Communicate STOP to a person who is
sexually harassing or bullying.
4. Identify steps to take if sexually harassed or
bullied.
7. First Aid
health
M.6.3. Predict how decisions regarding health
behaviors have consequences for themselves and
others.
M.8.4. Encourage and support others in making
positive health choices
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the correct steps to make informed
decisions.
2. Cite examples of physical, mental and social
hazards of substance abuse.
3. Identify examples of positive and negative peer
pressure.
8. Reproductive System
M.1.5. Analyze ways in which the environment
and personal health are interrelated
M.3.5. Examine and apply safety techniques to
avoid and reduce injury and prevent disease
M.1.3. Explain how health is influenced by the
growth and interaction of body systems
M.1.7. Explain how appropriate health care can
prevent premature death and disability
M.1.10 Describe puberty and human reproduction
as it relates to medically accurate comprehensive
sexuality education
M.3.1. Explain the importance of assuming
responsibility for personal health behaviors
M.3.2. Examine personal health status to determine
needs
Students will be able to…
1. Apply treatment for basic first aid injuries.
2. Identify and implement first aid for choking
(Heimlich maneuver).
3. Identify steps in CPR/Rescue breathing.
4. Take necessary measures to help prevent
sports injuries (i.e., stretching, protective
equipment, etc.).
Students will be able to…
1. Identify the structure and function of the
reproductive system.
2. Identify the methods for early detection of
testicular and breast cancer.
Students will be able to…
1. Identify personal stressors.
2. Use methods to relieve stress.
3. Identify when help is necessary to deal with stress.