Preschool Health
Mental and Social Health
- Understands and names emotions
- Demonstrates feelings through facial expressions
- Explains ways in which people express feelings
Growth and Development
- Recognizes stages of human development—infant, child, and adult
- Identifies basic body parts
- Experiments with physical movement
- Explores changes in heart rate and breathing
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Begins to develop healthy hygiene habits
- Discusses how germs are spread
Nutrition
- Discusses the basic food groups
- Identifies foods as either healthy or unhealthy
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Begins to develop an awareness of personal and traffic safety
- Develops an awareness of fire safety practices
- Realizes the importance of reporting an injury to an adult
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Begins to seek first aid for injuries
- Begins to understand poisons and their harmful effects upon the body
- Discusses techniques for personal safety
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
Prekindergarten Health
Mental and Social Health
- Understands and names emotions
- Demonstrates feeling through facial expressions
- Explains ways in which people express feelings
Growth, Development, and The Human Body
- Recognizes stages of human development—infant, child, and adult
- Identifies basic body parts
- Experiments with physical movement
- Explores changes in heart rate and breathing
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Begins to develop healthy hygiene habits
- Discusses how germs are spread
Nutrition
- Examines and discuss the basic food groups
- Identifies foods as either healthy or unhealthy
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Begins to develop an awareness of personal and traffic safety
- Develops an awareness of fire safety practices
- Realizes the importance of reporting an injury to an adult
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Begins to seek first aid for injuries
- Begins to understand poisons and their harmful effects upon the body
- Discusses techniques for personal safety
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
Kindergarten Health
Mental and Social Health
- Understands and names emotions
- Demonstrates feeling through facial expressions
- Explains ways in which people express feelings
Growth and Development
- Classifies tastes
- Classifies textures
- Names members of immediate family
- Recognizes and identifies stages of human development—infant, child, and adult
- Names and describes the functions of the large organs in the human body: heart, lungs, intestines, brain, muscles, bones, and joints
- Names and describes the functions of the five senses
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Begins to develop healthy hygiene habits
- Discusses how germs are spread
- Explains steps necessary to keep teeth healthy
- Discusses the benefits of regular, physical activity
Nutrition
- Examines and discusses the basic food groups
- Distinguishes between nutritious and non-nutritious foods
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Shows an awareness of personal and traffic safety
- Develops an awareness of fire safety procedures
- Discusses techniques for personal safety
- Knows and dials 911 in an emergency
- Understands poisons and their harmful effects on the body
- Explains the proper use of medicines
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Seeks first aid for injuries
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
First Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Develops ideas of a positive self-image
- Develops the distinction between physical feeling and emotional feeling
- Explains feelings and how they are expressed
- Realizes that there are differences and similarities among people
Growth and Development
- Names basic needs of the human body
- Recognizes and identifies the stages of human development—infant, child, adult
- Recognizes different family units
- Recognizes different roles and responsibilities of family members
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Develops good body and dental health
- Develops healthy hygiene habits
- Discusses the benefits of regular, physical activity
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Seeks first aid for injuries
- Describes how germs are spread
- Identifies the steps in a decision making process
Nutrition
- Examines and discusses the basic food groups
- Categorizes food within the food groups
- Distinguishes between nutritious and non-nutritious foods
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Shows an awareness of personal and traffic safety
- Develops an awareness of fire safety procedures
- Knows the procedure in dialing 911 and reporting an emergency
- Understands poisons and their harmful effects on the body
- Explains the proper use of medicines
- Discusses techniques for personal safety
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
Second Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Develops ideas of a positive self-image
- Develops the distinction between physical feeling and emotional feeling
- Explains feelings and how they are expressed
- Develops an understanding of habits
- Identifies personal habits as desirable and non-desirable
Growth and Development
- Identifies the major body systems, the organs included in each, and their function: circulatory, digestive, respiratory, skeletal, urinary, nervous, and muscular
- Identifies parts of the skin
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Understands the importance of maintaining good body and dental hygiene and health practices
- Identifies examples of common infectious and non-infectious diseases and how they are spread
- Discusses the benefits of regular, physical activity
- Identifies the steps in a decision making process
Nutrition
- Distinguishes between nutritious and non-nutritious food
- Lists the food groups and give examples in each food group
- Discusses food’s role in growth and development
- Identifies foods and their specific effects on the body
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Practices personal and traffic safety
- Demonstrates an awareness of fire safety and emergency procedures
- Knows emergency procedures for poisons and poisonous plants
- Describes the proper use of medicines
- Identifies harmful substances
- Identifies the effects of harmful substances such as drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Seeks first aid for injuries
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
Third Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Develops an understanding of emotional expressions
- Explains how people express feelings
- Identifies coping skills to deal with various problems and situations
- Realizes the responsibility of making choices
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Develops good body and dental hygiene and health practices
- Understands the cause of infectious diseases and how they are spread
- Names examples of common infectious and non-infectious diseases
- Identifies harmful substances
- Identifies media sources that influence health and safety
- Identifies the harmful effects of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
- Demonstrates the skills to avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
- Identifies the steps in the decision making process
- Discusses the benefits of regular, physical activity
Nutrition
- Distinguishes between nutritious and non-nutritious food
- Understands that nutritious food is essential in maintaining a healthy body
- Gives examples of foods in each group
- Identifies and gives examples of combination foods
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Practices responsible personal and traffic safety
- Demonstrates an awareness of fire safety and emergency procedures
- Recognizes emergency situations and explains appropriate responses
- Seeks first aid for injuries
- Recognizes safe and unsafe touches
- Realizes the importance of reporting unsafe touching to an appropriate adult
- Describes the proper use of medicine
Fourth Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Realizes the growing responsibility of making choices
- Identifies and discusses coping skills to deal with problems and situations
Growth and Development
- Describes the structures and functions of the respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, urinary, nervous, and muscular systems
- Identifies the structure and function of the excretory system
- Explains how cells produce and get rid of wastes
- Explains the potential problems of these systems and describes ways to prevent them
- Describes and illustrates the reason for and process of digestion
- Lists and describes the functions of each part of the blood
- Lists and describes three types of blood vessels
- Illustrates the human heart and traces the path of blood through the heart and body
- Describes the structure and function of the parts of the nervous system
- Identifies and describes the structure and function of the skin
- Identifies the physical changes beginning to take place in the body as a result of adolescence
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Develops an understanding of how to choose and use products wisely
- Develops an awareness of packaging of products including reading labels and directions carefully
- Understands the value of drugs as a medicine as well as a harmful substance
- Classifies diseases as communicable or non-communicable
- Maintains good body and dental hygiene
- Discusses the benefits of regular, physical activity
- Demonstrates decision making and refusal skills
- Explains the relationship between personal health practices and individual well being
- Identifies media sources that influence health and safety
- Identifies the steps in a decision making process
Nutrition
- Explains the role of the food pyramid in helping people eat a healthy diet: food groups, number of servings, variety of foods, key nutrients
- Plans a nutritious meal
- Understands the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Practices responsible personal and traffic safety
- Demonstrates an awareness of fire safety and emergency procedures
- Reports an unsafe situation to an appropriate adult
Fifth Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Realizes the growing responsibility of making choices
- Identifies and discuss coping skills to deal with various problems and situation
Growth and Development
- Identifies the anatomy of both male and female reproductive systems
- Describes the growth and development changes that occur during adolescence
- Identifies and describes the characteristics of the human life cycle
- Describes habits to choose now to age in a healthy way
- Explains how traits and disease are passed from mother to child in vitro
- Explains the stages of development from conception to birth
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Exhibits good body and dental hygiene
- Classifies diseases as communicable and non-communicable
- Understands what AIDS is and how it affects the body
- Identifies how AIDS is spread and methods of prevention
- Demonstrates decision making and refusal skills
- Explains the effects of harmful substances
- Describes the consequences of substance abuse
- Identifies rules, regulations, and laws concerning drugs, alcohol, and substance use
- Explains the relationship between personal health practices and individual well being
- Identifies media sources that influence health and safety
- Explains the steps in decision making process
Nutrition
- Explains why nutritious food is essential in maintaining a healthy body
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Practices responsible personal and traffic safety
- Demonstrates an awareness of fire safety and emergency procedures
- Reports an unsafe situation to an appropriate adult
Sixth Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Realizes and accepts the growing responsibility of making choices
- Describes coping skills to deal with various problems and situations
- Identifies and seeks resources available for guidance and development
Growth and Development
- Identifies and describes the structure and function of the respiratory, reproductive, circulatory, and immune systems
- Discusses how human reproduction occurs
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Practices good body and dental hygiene
- Explains the relationship between personal health practices and individual well being
- Demonstrates decision making and refusal skills
- Analyzes and use the steps in the decision making process
- Analyzes prevention and intervention strategies in relation to drug use
Seventh Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Realizes and accepts the growing responsibility of making choices
- Describes coping skills to deal with various problems and situations
- Identifies and seeks resources available for guidance and development
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Practices good body and dental hygiene
- Explains the relationship between personal health practices and individual well being
- Demonstrates decision making and refusal skills
- Explains the effects of different substances
- Describes the consequences of substance use and abuse
- Identifies rules, regulations, and laws concerning drugs, alcohol, and substance use
- Analyzes media health and safety messages and describe their impact on personal health and safety
- Analyzes and use the steps in the decision making process
Safety and Injury Prevention
- Practices responsible personal and traffic safety
- Demonstrates an awareness of fire safety and emergency procedures
- Analyzes and applies the decision making process to adolescent health and safety issues
- Reports an unsafe situation to an appropriate adult
- Knows and applies appropriate emergency responses
Eighth Grade Health
Mental and Social Health
- Realizes and accepts the growing responsibility of making choices
- Identifies and relates changes in emotions during adolescence
- Identifies various problems and situations that arise during adolescence
- Describes coping skills to deal with various problems and situations
- Identifies and seeks resources available for guidance and development
- Identifies and differentiates between the physical changes beginning to take place in a body as a result of adolescence
Growth and Development
- Analyzes the factors that impact growth and development
- Discusses how human reproduction occurs
- Explains how traits and disease are passed from mother to child in utero
- Explains the stages of development from conception to birth
- Discusses the prevention and consequences of teenage pregnancy
Hygiene and Personal Health
- Practices good body and dental hygiene
- Explains the relationship between personal health practices and individual well being
- Classifies diseases as communicable or non-communicable
- Understands what AIDS is and how is affects the body
- Identifies how AIDS is spread and methods of prevention
- Demonstrates decision making and refusal skills
- Analyzes and use the steps in the decision making process
- Analyzes how personal choice can impact health maintenance and disease prevention
Nutrition
- Analyzes nutritional concepts and healthful food choices
- Identifies eating disorders and their symptoms
- Explains the impact of nutritional choices