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.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. recognize the importance and consequences of feelings.
  2. identify good personal hygiene practices.
  3. identify appropriate health practices that affect self and others.

Sample Grade Level 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 that support the benchmarks at each grade level.)

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. identify expressions and behaviors associated with different feelings.
  2. identify appropriate ways to deal with emotions.
  3. practice personal hygiene habits, e.g., hand washing, blowing nose.
  4. understand how practices in the home affect personal health, e.g., diet, sleep, hygiene.
  1. describe physical and emotional feelings.
  2. describe appropriate ways to deal with different emotions.
  3. explain how personal hygiene affects health, e.g., cleanliness.
  4. list various ways families and children help others stay healthy, e.g., emergency telephone calls.
  1. explore different feelings in different situations
  2. recognize how to deal with one’s emotions in a healthy way.
  3. understand how personal hygiene affects health, e.g., brushing teeth.
  4. explain how families and classmates help others stay healthy, e.g., going to the doctor.

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.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify major body parts and related functions (e.g., heart—pumping blood)
  2. recognize characteristics of emotional, social, and physical health.
  3. identify common health problems of children.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. recognize that the body has many different systems.
  2. describe what being well means, e.g., physically, emotionally, and socially.
  3. identify various childhood injuries and illnesses, e.g., bicycle accidents, chicken pox, measles.
  1. identify the major systems within the body.
  2. list characteristics of social, emotional, and physical health.
  3. describe potential health problems that can affect various body systems, e.g., lack of proper nutrition or exercise.
  1. explain very basic functions of the major body systems.
  2. describe physical, social, and emotional health, e.g., courtesy to family and friends, managing anger.
  3. cite examples of the ways individuals grow physically, emotionally, and mentally.
  4. describe health problems that can affect different systems of the body, e.g., ear infections, asthma.

STANDARD/GOAL ONE:

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

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

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify information available from health care providers/services in the community.
  2. Identify various health care requirements and policies that affect safety and well-being.
  3. Identify health practices which help prevent disease.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. list various community health and safety helpers, e.g., nurse, police, firefighter, doctor, dentist.
  2. describe safety rules in school and the community, e.g., crossing the street, wearing a bike helmet, using seat belts.
  3. list specific practices that help prevent and control the spread of germs, e.g., washing hands, covering mouth when coughing.
  1. describe the services of health care providers, e.g., doctors, nurses, dentists, hospitals.
  2. describe the importance of following safety procedures in the school, home and community
  3. list specific practices that prevent and control the spread of disease, e.g., proper use of drinking fountain.
  1. explain how one uses the services of health care providers to maintain health, e.g., eye exam, teeth, and ear.
  2. describe the importance and function of safety procedures in the school, home, and community.
  3. list specific practices that prevent communicable diseases, e.g., universal precautions, and immunizations.
  1. others in making healthy choices.
  2. identify ways to advocate health in families and schools.
  3. recognize all people need good health care.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. identify ways to help others to improve personal health.
  2. identify positive health messages.
  3. explain why children need good health care.

 
  1. explore ways to work with others to make healthy decisions.
  2. list popular health messages that advocate good health.
  3. explain why families need good health care
  1. explore ways to work as a team to make healthy choices, e.g., classroom goals, recycling projects, trash pickup.
  2. create messages that promote good health.
  3. explain ways health care is provided in the community, e.g., counselors, nurses, hospitals.