M/J Health Grade 7 Year (#0800010) 

Clarification 1: Instruction includes community health problems may include teen dating violence and teen pregnancy.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes human trafficking awareness and prevention.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes social media platforms influencing health behaviors and practices.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes permanency of sharing materials online.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes how increased community illnesses burdens local resources, such as healthcare and workforce.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes the impact of death, illness, or injury of a community member.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes mental stress that may arise from exam season at school.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes mental stress leading to physical illness.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes peer relationship conflict leading to decreased self-esteem.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes difference between dentist vs. orthodontist.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes difference between family physician vs. specialist.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes safe food handling practices to avoid foodborne illnesses.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes appropriate home heating and cooling, air, and water quality.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes family communication behaviors.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes smoking in home and alcohol consumption by family members.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes weight management through physical activity.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes disease prevention through hand washing.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes knowing when sharing personal information is safe and secure.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes risky behaviors such as driving under the influence.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes poor health maintenance such as lack of exercise and poor diet.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes consequences of teenage pregnancy.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes participation in organized activities/sports.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes safety habits, internet use and safety, and conflict resolution.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes journaling, daily checklists, and rewarding milestones.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes use of pedometers, monitoring healthy food intake, and identification of groups for support.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes refusal skills, problem solving, and engaging in respectful relationships.

Clarification 2: Instruction includes engaging or reengaging abstinence.

• 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.