These guidelines offer a philosophy, goals, and objectives for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a K-12 comprehensive health instruction program. Recommendations reflect current thinking of national, state, and local health educators. The material is aimed at local school district health curriculum committees and teacher preparation institutions. Following the foreword are a list of the North Dakota School Health Coalition members, the national health objectives for the year 2000, the guide's scope and sequence, and an introduction. This publication is organized into 11 chapters: (1) Implementation Guidelines; (2) General Resources; (3) Mental Health/Self-Concept; (4) Social Competency/Decision Making; (5) Chemical Education; (6) Family Life Education; (7) Disease Prevention, including recommendations for AIDS education implementation and curriculum development; (8) Community/Environmental Health; (9) Personal and Consumer Health; (10) Nutrition Education; and (11) Safety and First Aid. Goals and objectives are spelled out for each instructional level; resource material sources are provided with each chapter. (LL)