Standard/Goal Five

STANDARD/GOAL FIVE:

Students will contribute to the health of their families, peers, schools, communities, and the environment.

INDICATOR 1: Students will analyze community and environmental health issues based on valid and reliable information.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify characteristics of a healthy community.
  2. identify reliable sources of health information.
  3. recognize how medical advances help maintain wellness.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. explain how a student’s health affects family.
  2. explore how to find community health related information.
  3. list medicines that keep us well.
  1. explain how student health affects everyone at school.
  2. locate community related health information.
  3. explore ways medicine improves health, e.g., vitamins.
  1. examine how personal practice affects the community, e.g., recycling, littering.
  2. locate information and express opinions about various community health issues.
  3. identify the ways medicine improves personal health, e.g., antibiotics.

 

 

STANDARD/GOAL FIVE:

Students will contribute to the health of their families, peers, schools, communities, and the environment.

INDICATOR 2: Students will evaluate the impact of strategies used to address community and environmental health issues.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify ways to approach community health issues.
  2. recognize resources needed to implement health plans.
  3. recognize how community health plans/strategies affect all.

Sample Grade Level Objectives/Activities:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade
  1. explore health problems in the classroom.
  2. list classroom health resources, e.g., first aid kit, school nurse, classmates.
  3. name classroom rules/strategies which promote health, e.g., fire and tornado drills.
  1. explore environmental health issues, which affect the classroom, e.g., room temperature, dust, sharing food, etc.
  2. identify various health resources needed in communities, e.g., health care providers, clinics, ambulance.
  3. explore health strategies/rules that affect the school and family, e.g., immunization laws.
  1. identify a specific classroom health issue and explore solutions, e.g., sharing water bottles, trash.
  2. list examples of how people in the community work together to solve health problems.
  3. identify health strategies/rules that affect the community.

STANDARD/GOAL FIVE:

Students will contribute to the health of their families, peers, schools, communities, and the environment.

INDICATOR 3: Students will advocate and support practices, which promote a healthy community and environment.

K-2 BENCHMARKS:

  1. identify ways to support 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.