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standards articulate learning goals in the terms of what we want students to know, understand, and do.
Standard 1, Essential Health Concepts, provides foundational health knowledge – what students should
know. Standard 2, Healthy Decisions, broadens student understanding of health content to allow students
to transfer information in a variety of contexts to make healthy and safe life choices – what students
should understand. Standard 3, Advocacy and Health Promotion, provides relevance for student learning
and opportunities for students to demonstrate or design realistic outcomes for application of health
information – what students should be able to do to advocate for their health and the health of others.