The The National Health Education Standards (NHES) 
are written expectations for what students should know and be able to do by grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 to promote personal, family, and community health. The standards provide a framework for curriculum development and selection, instruction, and student assessment in health education.
Instructional Objectives |
Health Content Standard |
Recognize that opiates affect the brain no matter how they are introduced into the body. |
Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. |
Discover that opium consists of different alkaloids/compounds that relieve pain. Observe that chromatography is a way of separating the components of a mixture. |
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. |
Learn that morphine is the most potent analgesic derived from opium. |
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. |
Recognize that severity and nature of pain is a primary consideration in the selection of a drug treatment. |
Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. |
Re-trace the scientific thinking and social policies that led to the discovery and widespread use of opiates in the 1800s. |
Standard 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. |
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