Standard/Goal One

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 1: Students will evaluate how personal behavior can impact the health of self, peers, and family.

3-5 BENCHMARKS:

  1. explore and problem solve ways to properly express feelings.

  2. understand the importance and effect of good personal hygiene.

  3. determine how appropriate and inappropriate health practices affect self and family.

Sample Grade Level Instructional Objectives/Activities: (These statements are provided only as SAMPLES. There is one, (sometimes two) sample statement per benchmark. In the development of a comprehensive local curriculum, districts must articulate a variety of statements which support the benchmarks at each grade level.)

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade
  1. summarize reasons why it’s important to identify and properly express feelings, e.g., problem solving, role play.
  2. Describe different feelings and the various ways they can be expressed.
  3. model positive hygienic habits, e.g., dental care, blowing nose, hand washing.
  4. describe healthy and unhealthy practices affecting self and family, e.g. protective gear, emergency phone numbers.

 

 
  1. describe how to identify their own feelings and the feelings of others.
  2. understand that feelings change and can be expressed in ways that help or harm people.
  3. model positive hygienic habits, e.g., combing hair, lice control.
  4. describe healthy and unhealthy practices affecting self and family, e.g. seat belts, eating breakfast.
  1. demonstrate responsible behavior when dealing with own feelings and the feelings of others.
  2. understand that feelings change and can be expressed in ways that help or harm others.
  3. model positive hygienic habits, e.g. bathing habits, deodorant use, clean clothes.
  4. analyze and model healthy practices affecting self and family, e.g., inline skating

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 2: Students will evaluate the impact of mental, emotional, social and physical health on various interrelated body systems.

3-5 BENCHMARKS:

  1. describe the basic structure and functions of the human body systems

  2. describe how social, emotional, and physical health are interrelated

  3. describe ways to avoid or reduce common childhood health problems.

Sample Grade Level Instructional Objectives/Activities:

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade
  1. identify and discuss body systems, e.g., muscular and skeletal systems.
  2. explain physical, social, and emotional health and how it affects well being, e.g., how worry/fear affects physical well being.
  3. list specific practices that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases.
  4. examine safety and health regulations that affect self and family.
  5. establish personal goals that enhance physical, social, and emotional health
  1. identify and discuss body systems, e.g., digestive system.
  2. describe positive and negative characteristics of social, emotional, and physical health.
  3. list specific practices and behaviors that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases.
  4. practice safety procedures and health regulations that affect self, family, and community.
  5. analyze how physical, social, and emotional health are interrelated.
  1. identify and discuss body systems, e.g., respiratory system.
  2. discuss the relationship between social, emotional, and physical health.
  3. list specific practices and behaviors that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases.
  4. develop a plan that addresses health risks and safety procedures.
  5. create a plan for self which integrates physical, social, and emotional growth strategies

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts and practices.

INDICATOR 3: Students will analyze how medical research, government regulations, and public health policies influence health promotion and disease prevention.

3-5 BENCHMARKS:

  1. examine ways medical research has improved the prevention and control of health problems.

  2. compare health care requirements and policies which affect safety and well being.

  3. describe health practices related to the prevention of disease.

Sample Grade Level Instructional Objectives/Activities:

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade
  1. locate and define resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information and services, e.g., social services, hospitals.
  2. explain specific practices that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases, e.g., avoiding contact with infectious agents: pink eye, skin rashes.
  3. examine safety and health regulations that affect self and family.
  1. demonstrate the ability to utilize resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information and services.
  2. describe specific practices and behaviors that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases, e.g., not sharing comb, brushes, headgear to prevent head lice.
  3. practice safety procedures and health regulations that affect self, family, and community.
  1. explain when to ask for assistance when making health related decisions and utilizing health services.
  2. describe specific practices and behaviors that prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases, e.g., not sharing water bottles.
  3. develop a plan that addresses health risks and safety procedures.