Standard/Goal Four

STANDARD/GOAL FOUR:

Students will use interpersonal communication skills to enhance personal health.

INDICATOR 1: Students will evaluate how communication affects relationships with family, peers, and community.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. recognize ways to communicate care and consideration for self and others.
  2. identify various communication techniques used with family and peers.
  3. identify effective interpersonal communication skills.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. list ways to be caring, courteous, and respectful.
  2. explore ways to communicate with family members about health.
  3. explore how to listen attentively.
  1. understand that special health situations need to be treated with respect and kindness.
  2. display healthy ways to communicate with family members.
  3. identify verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  1. demonstrate respect and courtesy about similarities and differences in human health.
  2. practice various ways to communicate with family members about different health situations.
  3. demonstrate attentive listening skills and clear communication regarding health situations.

STANDARD/GOAL FOUR:

Students will use interpersonal communication skills to enhance personal health.

INDICATOR 2: Students will evaluate and select effective communication skills, which enhance personal health.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
  2. recognize behaviors, which help or hinder effective communication.
  3. identify age-appropriate health-related vocabulary.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. Explore positive ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
  2. explore ways to describe oneself, e.g., self-portrait/ drawings, collage.
  3. identify various health-related terms, e.g., germs, hygiene.
  1. Show positive ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
  2. identify personal skills and talents.
  3. identify selected terms used to accurately convey health information, e.g., immunization.
  1. model positive ways to express needs, wants, and feelings with classmates.
  2. describe how self-image can affect communication.
  3. identify terms used to accurately convey health information, e.g., virus, and bacteria.

STANDARD/GOAL FOUR:

Students will use interpersonal communication skills to enhance personal health.

INDICATOR 3: Students will analyze conflict and engage in healthy communication and resolution strategies.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify situations, which cause conflict.
  2. identify positive ways to solve conflicts.
  3. recognize and use refusal and cooperation skills.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. define anger and how anger affects people.
  2. explore and define cooperation.
  3. identify ways to refuse harmful substances.
  1. demonstrate ways of handling anger.
  2. describe ways to be cooperative.
  3. practice saying no to alcohol and tobacco products.
  1. define conflict and cite examples of solving conflict.
  2. demonstrate ways to be cooperative.
  3. demonstrate ways to say ‘no’ to illegal and unsafe substances