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Minnesota Graduation Standards:
3501.0467 Preparatory content standards in learning area eight: Decision making
(replaced by the NASPE National Standards in 2010)
Primary Content Standards
Personal Health and Fitness: A student shall demonstrate an understanding of activities that promote personal fitness, health, nutrition and safety by showing evidence of the ability to:
A. make healthy choices in real or simulated situations including interpersonal conflict; proper care of the body; nutrition; safety; drugs, tobacco, and alcohol; and exercise and recreation; and
B. work to improve age-appropriate physical fitness, participate in a daily fitness plan, and demonstrate motor skills required for individual and team activities and appropriate competitive and cooperative participation in physical education activities.
Intermediate Content Standards
Personal Health and Nutrition: A student shall demonstrate understanding of how to recognize and get help in situations involving abusive or harassing behaviors; the consequences of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; the strategies to prevent the spread of communicable diseases; the strategies for preventing accidents; and age-appropriate nutritional recommendations by:
1. using a decision-making model to promote healthy behaviors;
2. using a decision-making model to prevent or reduce the risk of unhealthy behaviors;
3. using a decision-making model to select foods that contribute to a healthy diet;
4. demonstrating what to do in case of sudden illness or injury; and
5. analyzing issues of safety in a school or community situation.
Physical Education and Fitness: A student shall demonstrate understanding of motor skills and physical fitness and participate in physical activities that develop motor skills and physical fitness by:
1. describing rules, skills, strategies, and etiquette associated with various physical education activities;
2. showing evidence of participating in a daily fitness plan;
3. showing evidence of age-appropriate physical fitness;
4. demonstrating motor skills required for individual and team activities; and
5. displaying etiquette and team-building skills in physical education activities.