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Descriptive Statements:
- Recognize the role of the health education teacher in supporting the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of students and students' success in learning.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the stages and expected patterns of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development throughout the life span.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health and ways in which they affect a range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
- Analyze the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and unmet health needs and the concept that a student's basic human needs must be met for learning to occur.
- Demonstrate knowledge of personal care and hygiene practices that have beneficial effects on lifelong health and wellness.
- Demonstrate knowledge of causes, modes of transmission, and signs and symptoms of common illnesses, diseases, and disorders.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the effect of lifestyle behaviors on health and wellness.
- Analyze ecological, social, economic, genetic, and environmental factors that influence students' health and increase or decrease susceptibility to health outcomes.
- Apply knowledge of practices for preventing communicable, noncommunicable, and chronic diseases and methods of screening for, detecting, managing, and controlling illness and disease.
- Evaluate the effects of public policies, health-care resources, and medical research and technology on emerging health issues and health-promotion and disease-prevention efforts.
Sample Item:
Autoimmune disorders can accurately be described as diseases in which:
- the antigen-antibody response attacks healthy cells in the body or fails to function altogether.
- weakened pathogens enter the blood before they are destroyed in the environment.
- acquired active immunity provided by vaccines fails to destroy disease-causing microorganisms.
- the body's early defense system fails to detect disease-causing pathogens.
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
A. In autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, the body's immune system, which is designed to attack foreign substances in the body, instead attacks healthy cells and tissues. Since the immune system is unable to differentiate between antigens and normal tissues and cells at body sites, it sends antibodies to form immune complexes, which can circulate and cause tissue inflammation.
Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology in relation to key aspects of physical health, growth, and development.
- Identify sources, functions, and effects of nutrients on body systems, energy processes, physical performance, and body composition.
- Analyze various influences on eating behaviors and ways in which eating habits affect the functioning of the human body and overall health.
- Apply knowledge of principles and skills for locating, evaluating, and using nutritional tools and guidelines to establish, monitor, and achieve personal health goals.
- Apply knowledge of how to interpret nutritional facts and labels and use the information to make health-enhancing decisions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of components of health-related fitness, appropriate strategies and activities for assessing and addressing these components, and factors that affect physical fitness and performance.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how body systems adapt to physical activity and of exercise principles that enhance health-related fitness.
- Identify methods and criteria for designing, implementing, and monitoring personal fitness plans and ways in which health goals may vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.
- Analyze the relationships between physical activity and mental, emotional, and social health and well-being.
Sample Item:
1. Which of the following body systems relays sensory and motor impulses from the brain and spinal cord to internal organs, skeletal muscles, glands, and body surfaces?
- endocrine system
- musculoskeletal system
- cardiorespiratory system
- peripheral nervous system
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
D. In the peripheral nervous system, cranial nerves connect the brain with sensory organs, the heart, and other internal organs. Spinal nerves carry impulses between the spinal cord and skeletal muscles.
Sample Item:
2. A high school student includes both cycling and swimming in their summer fitness program. While engaging in these activities, the student tries to maintain a target heart rate of 60 percent to 75 percent of the student's maximum heart rate. This health-related fitness goal is based on which of the following training principles?
- specificity of training
- intensity of training
- frequency of training
- progression of training
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
B. In this scenario, the student applies the principle of intensity of training in two types of aerobic exercise. Monitoring and maintaining a target heart rate (THR) of 60 to 75 percent of maximum heart rate (MHR) during sustained aerobic exercise provides health-related benefits such as strengthening the cardiorespiratory system, improving oxygen utilization and lung capacity, and increasing endurance and stamina.
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