Identify ways listening skills can be used to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Example: taking turns talking and listening
Discuss ways to express feelings to peers in a healthy way.
Example: speaking calmly
Interpret the feelings of and describe ways to show empathy for others.
Demonstrate ways to respond in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation.
Example: run-hide-fight
Identify appropriate and inappropriate touches.
Example: recognizing touching in the bathing suit zone as inappropriate
Describe situations in which students must choose between healthy and risky behaviors.
Create an age- appropriate personal health goal.
Describe ways that parents and other trusted adults can help a student achieve a health goal.
Identify healthy practices and behaviors to maintain and improve personal health.
Determine behaviors that avoid or reduce injury.
Examples: importance of riding in the back seat, meaning of traffic signs, safe pedestrian behaviors
Encourage peers to make positive health choices.
Examples: reminding peers to cover their nose and mouth when sneezing, offering helpful suggestions when peers are trying to resolve a conflict
Describe behaviors that enhance physical and mental health.
Summarize motivations for eating food.
Examples: hunger, emotions
Describe why avoiding tobacco is a healthy behavior.
List ways to prevent germs from spreading.
Examples: using soap and warm water when washing hands
Investigate how immunizations and regular care from health professionals prevent disease.
List ways to prevent common childhood injuries.
Examples: following play-ground safety rules, wearing protective equipment, practicing water safety
Identify positive examples of mental health.
Identify ways the school supports personal health practices and behaviors.
Identify how hereditary and environmental factors influence family health.
Discuss how advertisements can influence individuals to purchase certain products.
Explain the importance of identifying trusted adults and health professionals.
Identify adults and professionals who help to promote regular physical activity.
Examples: PE teacher, coach, doctor, personal health coach
Demonstrate techniques of effective listening.
Examples: body language, eye contact
Explain ways that bullying and excessive teasing can be hurtful.
Demonstrate how to communicate with others with kindness and respect.
Summarize strategies for reporting harmful acts.
Example: reporting to trusted adult
Demonstrate how to tell a trusted adult if inappropriate touching occurs.
Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed.
Example: when to tell trusted adults about bullying or other abuse
Describe various ways to reach a personal health goal.
Identify school and community individuals who can help support personal health goals.
Predict how healthy behaviors can reduce health risks.
Example: predicting how a healthy sleep routine promotes academic success
Describe personal behaviors that enhance safety at school, home, and within the community.
Examples: staying seated on the bus; surfing the Internet with caution; practicing water safety; learning self-defense skills
Enlist family and community participation in positive health activities.
Examples: Relay for Life, Run/Walk for Diabetes
Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
