M/J Health Grade 8 Semester (#0800050) 

Clarification 1: Instruction includes death or injury from car crashes and underage drinking/distracted driving.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes infections and disease from poor personal health practices.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes promotion of community initiatives, such as media or prevention campaigns.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes participation in school community wellness and organizations.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes social marketing for health information.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes how technology can positively and negatively influence personal and family health behaviors.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes the relationship between sleeping and studying for tests.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes the relationship between road rage and vehicular crashes.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes the relationship between bullying, dating violence, human trafficking and self-esteem.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and abstinence to prevent STIs.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes diet, physical activity, hygiene.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity and sleep habits.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes interpersonal skills.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes risky behavior and injury prevention.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes social conformity, desires, and impulses.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes how a healthy level of self-respect deters unhealthy choices and behaviors.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes heat index, air, and water quality.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes streetlights and signs.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes bullying, gangs, and weapons in the community.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes drug-use myths.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes perception of healthy body composition.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes energy drink myths.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes consumption of alcohol, use of marijuana, and prescription drug abuse.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes prevention of dating violence.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes consequences related to injury, addiction, and reproductive health.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes consequences related to legal, social, and financial ramifications.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes weight management from proper nutrition and exercise.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes disease prevention from personal hygiene practices and reproductive health.

Clarification 4: Instruction includes injury prevention from safety practices.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes physical activity and nutrition modification.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes use of health apps.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes participating in various physical activities, setting healthy goals, making healthy food choices, adequate sleep patterns.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes fostering healthy relationships, resisting negative peer pressure, and reproductive health practices.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes practicing internet safety.

Clarification 4: Instruction includes limiting screentime to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal conditions caused by prolonged use of devices.

• Cultivate a community of growth mindset learners. 
• Foster perseverance in students by choosing tasks that are challenging. 
• Develop students’ ability to analyze and problem solve. 
• Recognize students’ effort when solving challenging problems.

• Help students make connections between concepts and representations.
• Provide opportunities for students to use manipulatives when investigating concepts.
• Guide students from concrete to pictorial to abstract representations as understanding progresses.
• Show students that various representations can have different purposes and can be useful in different situations. 

• Provide students with the flexibility to solve problems by selecting a procedure that allows them to solve efficiently and accurately.
• Offer multiple opportunities for students to practice efficient and generalizable methods.
• Provide opportunities for students to reflect on the method they used and determine if a more efficient method could have been used. 

• Establish a culture in which students ask questions of the teacher and their peers, and error is an opportunity for learning.
• Create opportunities for students to discuss their thinking with peers.
• Select, sequence and present student work to advance and deepen understanding of correct and increasingly efficient methods.
• Develop students’ ability to justify methods and compare their responses to the responses of their peers. 

• Help students recognize the patterns in the world around them and connect these patterns to mathematical concepts.
• Support students to develop generalizations based on the similarities found among problems.
• Provide opportunities for students to create plans and procedures to solve problems.
• Develop students’ ability to construct relationships between their current understanding and more sophisticated ways of thinking.

• Have students estimate or predict solutions prior to solving.
• Prompt students to continually ask, “Does this solution make sense? How do you know?”
• Reinforce that students check their work as they progress within and after a task.
• Strengthen students’ ability to verify solutions through justifications. 

• Provide opportunities for students to create models, both concrete and abstract, and perform investigations.
• Challenge students to question the accuracy of their models and methods.
• Support students as they validate conclusions by comparing them to the given situation.
• Indicate how various concepts can be applied to other disciplines.

2-3 Students include relevant textual evidence in their written and oral communication. Students should name the text when they refer to it. In 3rd grade, students should use a combination of direct and indirect citations.

4-5 Students continue with previous skills and reference comments made by speakers and peers. Students cite texts that they’ve directly quoted, paraphrased, or used for information. When writing, students will use the form of citation dictated by the instructor or the style guide referenced by the instructor. 

6-8 Students continue with previous skills and use a style guide to create a proper citation.

9-12 Students continue with previous skills and should be aware of existing style guides and the ways in which they differ.

In grades 1-2, students build upon these skills by justifying what they are thinking. For example: “I think ________ because _______.” The collaborative conversations are becoming academic conversations.

In grades 3-12, students engage in academic conversations discussing claims and justifying their reasoning, refining and applying skills. Students build on ideas, propel the conversation, and support claims and counterclaims with evidence.