New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
| STANDARD 2.1 (Wellness) All students will learn and apply health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle. |
A. Personal Health:
1. Evaluate the impact of health behaviors and choices on personal and family wellness.
2. Interpret health data to make predictions about wellness.
3. Investigate how technology and medical advances impact wellness.
1. Investigate current and emerging methods to diagnose and treat diseases and health conditions.
2. Classify diseases and health conditions as communicable, noncommunicable, acute, chronic, or inherited.
3. Analyze local and state public health efforts to prevent and control diseases and health conditions.
| STANDARD 2.2 (Integrated Skills) All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle. |
1. Analyze health ideas, opinions, and issues from a variety of valid and reliable health sources.
2. Present health information using a multimedia approach, adapting the wording and delivery method for various topics and audiences.
| STANDARD 5.1 (Scientific Processes) All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results. |
1. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of data, claims, and arguments.
2. Communicate experimental findings to others.
3. Recognize that the results of scientific investigations are seldom exactly the same and that replication is often necessary.
| STANDARD 5.5 (Characteristics of Life) All students will gain an understanding of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms and will investigate the diversity of life. |
1. Discuss how changing environmental conditions can result in evolution or extinction of a species.
2. Recognize that individual organisms with certain traits are more likely to survive and have offspring.
Language Arts Literacy
| STANDARD 3.2 (Writing) All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes. |
1. Write multi-paragraph compositions that have clear topic development, logical organization, effective use of detail, and variety in sentence structure.
2. Revise and edit drafts by rereading for content and organization, usage, sentence construction, mechanics, and word choice.
3. Compose, revise, edit, and publish writing using appropriate word processing software.
1. Extend knowledge of specific characteristics, structures, and appropriate voice and tone of selected genres and use this knowledge in creating written work, considering the purpose, audience, and context of the writing.
2. Write reports and subject-appropriate nonfiction pieces across the curriculum based on research and including citations, quotations, and a works cited page.
1. Use Standard English conventions in all writing, such as sentence structure, grammar and usage, punctuation, capitalization, spelling.
2. Use a variety of sentence types correctly, including combinations of independent and dependent clauses, prepositional and adverbial phrases, and varied sentence openings to develop a lively and effective personal style.
3. Use transition words to reinforce a logical progression of ideas.
4. Edit writing for correct grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
5. Use a variety of reference materials, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, grammar reference, and/or internet/software resources to edit written work.
1. Gather, select, and organize the most effective information appropriate to a topic, task, and audience.
2. Write personal narratives, short stories, memoirs, poetry, and persuasive and expository text that relate clear, coherent events, or situations through the use of specific details.
3. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to understand the value of each when writing a research report.
4. Write reports based on research and include citations, quotations, and works cited page.
| STANDARD 3.3 (Speaking) All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes. |
1. Use visual aids, media, and/or technology to support oral communication.
2. Give oral presentations to different audiences for various purposes, such as summaries of books and articles, narratives, and persuasive topics, research projects, and extemporaneous/impromptu, dramatic speeches.
3. Acknowledge the audience with eye contact and use appropriate verbal responses to clarify questions and inquiries.
4. Incorporate peer feedback and teacher suggestions for revisions in content, organization, and delivery.
5. Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation, inflection, tempo, enunciation, and eye contact, for effective presentations.
| STANDARD 3.5 (Viewing and media literacy) All students will access, view, evaluate, and respond to print, nonprint, and electronic texts and resources |
1. Analyze aspects of print and electronic texts that support the author's point of view, opinion, or attitude.
2. Analyze the use of elements (e.g., setting plot, theme, characters) to understand media presentations, such as film, video, television, and theatrical productions.