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A health teacher is explaining how nutritional needs change across the life span. Which stage requires the greatest number of kilocalories relative to body size?
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Correct answer: A - Infancy
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A health teacher is explaining how nutritional needs change across the life span. Which stage requires the greatest number of kilocalories relative to body size?
Correct answer: A - Infancy
A high school teacher is preparing a district-approved unit on human sexuality that includes information about contraception. Under Texas Education Code §28.004, how must the effectiveness of contraceptive methods be presented?
Correct answer: B - Using human use reality rates
During a lesson on communication skills, a health teacher asks students to rewrite a complaint as an I-message. Which student response is the BEST example of an I-message?
Correct answer: C - I feel left out when the group starts before I arrive, because I miss the directions.
A third-grade student tells a teacher that an adult at home has been hurting him. The teacher immediately reports the disclosure to the campus counselor, who says she will take care of it. Under Texas Family Code Chapter 261, has the teacher satisfied the legal obligation?
Correct answer: D - No, because the duty to report is personal and cannot be delegated to another person.
A middle school teacher is helping students distinguish bullying from other kinds of conflict. Which situation contains all of the elements required to meet the definition of bullying?
Correct answer: C - An eighth grader repeatedly ridicules a smaller sixth grader who is afraid to respond
A tenth-grade student writes in a health journal that things would be easier for everyone if she were not around. What should the teacher do FIRST?
Correct answer: B - Ask the student directly about the statement and follow the campus crisis protocol
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health Education organize content into strands. Which strand first appears in Grade 4 and is not part of the Kindergarten-Grade 3 strands?
Correct answer: B - Reproductive and sexual health
A health teacher wants an activity that develops students' health literacy rather than only their health knowledge. Which activity BEST accomplishes this?
Correct answer: D - Students compare two websites' claims about a supplement and judge which is more credible
A health teacher needs to know which supports a student with a disability is entitled to receive during instruction. In Texas, which committee develops and reviews that student's individualized education program?
Correct answer: A - The Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee
A seventh-grade objective states that students will demonstrate refusal skills in a situation involving peer pressure to vape. The class period is 45 minutes. Which activity BEST supports this objective?
Correct answer: A - Role-play in which students rehearse a refusal, receive feedback, and try again
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