Benchmark 6E The Human Organism: Physical Health

Benchmark 6E
The Human Organism: Physical Health
Grades 6-8, page 145

Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites may infect the human body and interfere with normal body functions. A person can catch a cold many times because there are many varieties of cold viruses that cause similar symptoms.

NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal health
Grades K-4, page 140
Individuals have some responsibility for their own health. Students should engage in personal care--dental hygiene, cleanliness, and exercise--that will maintain and improve health. Understandings include how communicable diseases, such as colds, are transmitted, and some of the body's defense mechanisms that prevent or overcome illness.

NSES Content Standard C
Life Science: Structure and function in living systems
Grades 5-8, page 157
Disease is a breakdown in structures or functions of an organism. Some diseases are the result of intrinsic failures of the system. Others are the result of damage by infection by other organisms.

NSES Content Standard F
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal and community health
Grades 9-12, page 197
The severity of disease symptoms is dependent on many factors, such as human resistance and the virulence of the disease, producing organism. Many diseases can be prevented, controlled, or cured. Some diseases, such as cancer, result from specific body dysfunctions and cannot be transmitted.