National Health Education Standards Resources

Free Resource!

Connecting Health Education Skills in the Physical Education Setting

This resource explores how physical educators can intentionally incorporate health education skills into their instruction, especially in schools where PE teachers are also responsible for health education.

By highlighting the natural alignment between SHAPE America’s National Health Education Standards and National Physical Education Standards, the document helps educators reinforce student learning across both subjects and promote lifelong healthy behaviors.

More FREE Resources for Health Education

Health Ed 101 Parent Flyer

Health Education in Schools 101 is a parent-friendly overview of what students learn in health education and why it matters. It helps families understand the goals, topics and benefits of health education while addressing common questions about health education class.

Student-Friendly HE Standards Posters

This popular classroom tool for health and physical educators has been updated and redesigned to help students understand and use the new National Health Education Standards.

Each poster pack you select will include:

• Student-friendly standards poster in English (available as 8.5x11 and 16x20)
• Student-friendly standards poster in Spanish (available as 8.5x11 and 16x20)
• Introductory guide to using the student-friendly standards poster, with suggested strategies for integrating standards-related language into daily lessons.

Poster packs are FREE for SHAPE America members and $4.99 for non-members.
Select the packs that best suit your needs!

• Elementary HE Poster Pack (grades preK-5)
• Secondary HE Poster Pack (grades 6-12)

National HE Standards Bulletin Board Printables

Print, cut and laminate these National HE Standards printables and use them around your gym or classroom to enhance your instructional space — and reinforce what students are learning!

Each HE printables pack includes:

• 8 large printables of the National HE Standards (one per 14x8.5 sheet)
• Large printables of the performance indicators for the selected grade span (two indicators per 14x8.5 sheet)

Printables packs are FREE for SHAPE America members
and $9.99 for non-members.
Select the packs that best suit your needs!

• Elementary HE Printables (grades preK-2 and 3-5)
• Middle School HE Printables (grades 6-8)
• High School HE Printables (grades 9-12)

Free National HE Standards Side-by-Side Comparison

Use this comparison document as a reference to quickly identify some of the differences between the new SHAPE America National Health Education Standards (released in 2024) and the 2007 National Health Education Standards.

It includes the standards statements, along with their associated rationale statements and grade-span performance indicators (preK-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).