Health Education Standards
Content Standard #1: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Students in Madison will understand and use concepts related to personal health promotion and disease prevention.
Fourth Grade Performance Standards
By the end of grade Four, students will:
- Identify positive mental, emotional, social, and physical factors that influence health.
- Describe how family, school, and community environments influence personal health.
- Identify ways to be healthy during childhood.
- Explain how childhood diseases and injuries can be prevented or treated.
- Describe the basic structure and functions of the human body systems.
Grade Level Performance Standards
These Grade Level Performance Standards are listed in a developmental sequence. However, because each school is organized in a slightly different manner, a specific grade level standard may not be addressed at the grade indicated, but will be addressed within the three year time span.
Kindergarten:
Students will understand and be able to:
- Show proper personal hygiene skills (e.g. brushing teeth and hand washing).
- Demonstrate safety procedures (e.g. street crossing and fire drills).
- Describe physical activities students do outside of school that enhance one's health.
- Identify household poisons, drugs, and medicines and avoid unsupervised use.
- Choose healthy snacks.
- Label emotions (e.g. happy, sad, angry).
Grade 1:
Students will understand and be able to:
- Explain the effects on the body of healthful and less healthful foods.
- List ways to keep germs out of one's body.
- Identify the need for medical checkups and other health-care procedures.
- Identify escape routes at home and school.
- Follow safety rules for taking medicine.
- Identify the dangers of playing with syringes and contact with body fluids.
Grade 2:
Students will understand and be able to:
- Identify the functions of different external body parts.
- Demonstrate proper food handling techniques (e.g. washing apples, washing hands, using clean utensils.
- Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate safety skills and equipment for recreation practices (e.g. bike riding, rollerblading, skateboarding.)
- Identify symptoms of poisoning and how to get help.
- Explain the importance of good dental care and how to demonstrate good dental hygiene.
Grade 3:
Students will understand and be able to:
- List ways to prevent the spread of germs at home.
- Describe the basic emotions.
- List healthy and unhealthy behaviors of adults in the community.
- Describe the major parts and functions of the digestive system.
- Describe the food pyramid and its value to personal health, understanding that food provides energy and nutrients for growth and development.
- Identify and describe the major functions of the sensory organs (e.g. eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin).
- Explain how the heart, which is a muscle, is strengthened by exercise.
Grade 4:
Students will understand and be able to:
- Discuss why cleanliness and grooming are important to health and how they aid in developing a good self concept.
- Describe how people have a variety of feelings and ways of expressing those feelings.
- Identify responsible health behaviors to avoid the spread of contagious diseases.
- Identify health problems which are common in his/her school setting.
- List ways to reduce the probability of contacting a cold.
- Describe the major parts of the muscular and skeleton systems of the human body.
- Describe the harmful effects of too much sun exposure and what steps can be used to reduce exposure.
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