A health teacher reads a student's journal assignment saying he has been giving away his favorite belongings and that soon he "won't be a problem for anyone." What should the teacher do FIRST?

Follow the school's crisis protocol and connect the student with the counselor that day.

Write a supportive comment in the journal and check in with the student next week.

Promise the student that the journal will stay private so that he will keep confiding in her.

Email the student's parents after school and wait for them to decide on next steps.

A second-grade teacher is planning a lesson on medicine safety. Which activity is MOST developmentally appropriate for these students?

Sorting look-alike medicine and candy pictures and telling an adult

Researching drug interactions in an online medical database

Reading pharmacy labels and calculating correct doses by body weight

Writing persuasive letters about prescription drug policy

During a soccer unit, the teacher explains the offside rule. In which situation can an attacking player NOT be called offside, even if she is nearer the goal line than the second-to-last defender when the ball is played?

She receives the ball directly from a throw-in

She receives the ball directly from an indirect free kick

She receives a teammate's header flicked toward goal

She receives a forward pass from a teammate in open play

After a semester of regular aerobic training, a student's resting heart rate drops from 78 to 66 beats per minute. Which physiological adaptation BEST explains this change?

The heart pumps more blood per beat, so fewer beats are needed at rest.

The heart's maximum rate rises, so it needs to beat less often at rest.

Each breath takes in more air, which directly slows the heart's pacemaker.

Total blood volume decreases, so the heart has less blood to move.

A seventh-grade health class includes several English learners at an intermediate proficiency level. Which strategy BEST supports their learning of the unit's content and skills?

Preview key vocabulary with visuals and give sentence frames for talk

Excuse them from role-plays and from written health assessments

Assign them a separate, simpler unit with different learning objectives

Seat them together and have them copy notes from a classmate

While teaching squat technique, a teacher explains what the quadriceps do as a student slowly lowers into the squat. Which description is accurate?

They contract eccentrically, lengthening under tension to control the descent.

They contract isometrically, holding one length throughout the descent.

They relax completely while the hamstrings lower the body.

They contract concentrically, shortening to pull the body down toward the floor.

MTTC Health and Physical (112-113)

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10 sample questions for the MTTC Health and Physical (112-113), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.

Sections covered on the exam: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction, Health Literacy and Social-Emotional Health, The Health Education Program, Motor Learning and Movement Concepts, Health-Related Fitness, The Physical Education Program.

Question 1 · Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
During a unit on tobacco and vaping, a ninth grader tells the health teacher, "I know vaping is hurting my lungs, and I'm thinking about quitting in the next few months, but I'm not ready to pick a date yet." According to the transtheoretical (stages of change) model, this student is MOST likely in which stage?
- A.Precontemplation
- B.Contemplation
- C.Action
- D.Preparation
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. Contemplation
A person who recognizes a problem and intends to change within roughly the next six months, without a concrete plan, is in contemplation. Preparation is the tempting distractor, but it requires intending to act very soon (usually within a month) and taking small steps such as setting a quit date, which this student has not done.
Question 2 · Health Literacy and Social-Emotional Health
A health teacher reads a student's journal assignment saying he has been giving away his favorite belongings and that soon he "won't be a problem for anyone." What should the teacher do FIRST?
- A.Follow the school's crisis protocol and connect the student with the counselor that day.
- B.Write a supportive comment in the journal and check in with the student next week.
- C.Promise the student that the journal will stay private so that he will keep confiding in her.
- D.Email the student's parents after school and wait for them to decide on next steps.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. Follow the school's crisis protocol and connect the student with the counselor that day.
Giving away possessions and statements about no longer being a burden are recognized suicide warning signs, so the teacher must act immediately by following the school's protocol and making sure the student is connected with a counselor or mental health professional the same day. Promising confidentiality is never appropriate when a student's safety is at risk, and delaying action with a written comment or email leaves the student without help.
Question 3 · The Health Education Program
A second-grade teacher is planning a lesson on medicine safety. Which activity is MOST developmentally appropriate for these students?
- A.Researching drug interactions in an online medical database
- B.Reading pharmacy labels and calculating correct doses by body weight
- C.Writing persuasive letters about prescription drug policy
- D.Sorting look-alike medicine and candy pictures and telling an adult
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Sorting look-alike medicine and candy pictures and telling an adult
Young children learn best through concrete, hands-on tasks, so sorting look-alike pictures and practicing telling a trusted adult builds a simple, usable safety behavior. Reading pharmacy labels and calculating doses is tempting because it relates to medicine safety, but dosing math and label interpretation exceed second graders' skills and should be left to adults.
Question 4 · Motor Learning and Movement Concepts
During a soccer unit, the teacher explains the offside rule. In which situation can an attacking player NOT be called offside, even if she is nearer the goal line than the second-to-last defender when the ball is played?
- A.She receives the ball directly from an indirect free kick
- B.She receives the ball directly from a throw-in
- C.She receives a teammate's header flicked toward goal
- D.She receives a forward pass from a teammate in open play
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. She receives the ball directly from a throw-in
Under the Laws of the Game, a player is not penalized for offside when receiving the ball directly from a throw-in, goal kick, or corner kick. Free kicks are not on that list, so a player who receives the ball directly from an indirect free kick from an offside position can still be called offside.
Question 5 · Health-Related Fitness
After a semester of regular aerobic training, a student's resting heart rate drops from 78 to 66 beats per minute. Which physiological adaptation BEST explains this change?
- A.The heart's maximum rate rises, so it needs to beat less often at rest.
- B.Each breath takes in more air, which directly slows the heart's pacemaker.
- C.Total blood volume decreases, so the heart has less blood to move.
- D.The heart pumps more blood per beat, so fewer beats are needed at rest.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. The heart pumps more blood per beat, so fewer beats are needed at rest.
Endurance training increases stroke volume through a stronger, larger left ventricle and greater blood volume, so the same resting cardiac output is delivered with fewer beats. Improved lung function does not eliminate the need for circulation, and training increases rather than decreases muscle glycogen storage.
Question 6 · Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
A health teacher asks students to reflect on how volunteering at a food pantry has given them a sense of purpose and strengthened their personal values. This reflection activity MOST directly addresses which dimension of wellness?
- A.Social
- B.Emotional
- C.Intellectual
- D.Spiritual
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Spiritual
The spiritual dimension of wellness involves finding meaning and purpose in life and acting in line with personal values, which is the focus of this reflection. Social wellness is tempting because volunteering involves other people, but the activity centers on purpose and values rather than on building relationships.
Question 7 · Health Literacy and Social-Emotional Health
A student facing housing instability and frequent hunger shows little interest in a unit on setting personal achievement goals. Which theory BEST explains this pattern?
- A.Erikson's psychosocial stages
- B.Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- C.Piaget's cognitive development
- D.Kohlberg's moral development
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Maslow's hierarchy holds that physiological and safety needs, such as food and stable shelter, generally must be met before people focus on higher needs like esteem and achievement. Erikson's stages describe psychosocial conflicts across the lifespan, such as identity versus role confusion, but do not explain why unmet basic needs crowd out higher goals.
Question 8 · The Health Education Program
A seventh-grade health class includes several English learners at an intermediate proficiency level. Which strategy BEST supports their learning of the unit's content and skills?
- A.Excuse them from role-plays and from written health assessments
- B.Assign them a separate, simpler unit with different learning objectives
- C.Seat them together and have them copy notes from a classmate
- D.Preview key vocabulary with visuals and give sentence frames for talk
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Preview key vocabulary with visuals and give sentence frames for talk
Previewing vocabulary with visuals and offering sentence frames give English learners access to the same objectives while building academic language. Assigning a simpler unit is tempting because it reduces the language load, but it lowers expectations and denies students the grade-level content and skills their classmates receive.
Question 9 · Motor Learning and Movement Concepts
Frame Ball 1 Ball 2
1 X (strike) —
2 7 2
A student's bowling scores for the first two frames are shown above. What is the student's cumulative score after Frame 2?
- A.28
- B.38
- C.19
- D.26
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. 28
A strike scores 10 plus the pins knocked down by the next two balls (7 + 2), so Frame 1 is worth 19. Frame 2 adds 9 more, for a total of 28. The answer 19 forgets to add the 9 pins from Frame 2 to the running total.
Question 10 · Health-Related Fitness
While teaching squat technique, a teacher explains what the quadriceps do as a student slowly lowers into the squat. Which description is accurate?
- A.They contract isometrically, holding one length throughout the descent.
- B.They relax completely while the hamstrings lower the body.
- C.They contract concentrically, shortening to pull the body down toward the floor.
- D.They contract eccentrically, lengthening under tension to control the descent.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. They contract eccentrically, lengthening under tension to control the descent.
During the lowering phase of a squat, the quadriceps lengthen while still producing force to resist gravity, which is an eccentric contraction; they then contract concentrically to stand back up. Gravity, not concentric quadriceps contraction, moves the body downward, and if the quadriceps relaxed the student would drop uncontrolled.

Frame	Ball 1	Ball 2
1	X (strike)	—
2	7	2

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