STANDARD 2: Health and Physical Education

Standard 2: Comprehensive Health and Physical Education

Mission: .Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social and emotional wellness.

Standard 2.1 Wellness All students will learn and apply health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Big Idea: Taking responsibility for one’s own health is an essential step towards developing and maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.
2.1 A. Personal Health
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- What are the consequences (especially unforeseen) of our choices in terms of wellness?	- Current and future personal wellness is dependent upon applying health-related concepts and skills in everyday lifestyle behaviors.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe the physical, social, and emotional dimensions of wellness.
2. Describe and demonstrate personal hygiene practices that support wellness.
3. Analyze the impact of health choices and behaviors on wellness.
2.1 B. Growth and Development
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-What causes optimal growth and development?	- An individual’s health at different life stages is dependent on heredity, environmental factors and lifestyle choices.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe the structure and function of human body systems.
2. Describe each human life stage and the physical changes that occur at each stage
3. Discuss factors that contribute to healthy physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth and uniqueness.
2.1 C. Nutrition
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- What makes a food healthy? - How do you determine appropriate portion sizes?	- There are many short and long term health benefits and risks associated with nutritional choices.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy eating patterns.
2. Classify foods by food group, food source, nutritional content, and nutritional value.
3. Interpret food product labels.
4. Discuss how healthy eating provides energy, helps to maintain healthy weight, lowers risk of disease, and keeps body systems working.
2.1 D. Diseases and Health Conditions
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- To what extent can we keep ourselves disease free?	- Current and emerging diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies can help people live healthier and longer than ever before.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Discuss the importance of the early detection of diseases and health conditions.
2. Investigate ways to treat common childhood diseases and health conditions.
3. Explain that some diseases and health conditions are preventable and some are not.
4. Describe the signs and symptoms of diseases and health conditions common in children.
5. Investigate how the use of universal precautions, sanitation and waste disposal, proper food handling and storage, and environmental controls help to prevent diseases and health conditions.
6. Discuss myths and facts about mental illness.
2.1 E. Safety
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- What is the difference between healthy and unhealthy risks? - Why do we sometimes take risks that can cause harm to ourselves or others?	- Being consistently aware of the environment and taking safety precautions can reduce the risk of injury to oneself and others.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe the characteristics of safe and unsafe situations and develop strategies to reduce the risk of injuries at home, school, and community.
2. Describe and demonstrate simple first aid procedures, including the assessment of choking and breathing, the control of bleeding and the care of minor wounds and burns.
3. Explain that abuse can take several forms, including verbal, emotional, sexual, and physical, and identify ways to get help should abuse be suspected.
4. Describe the characteristics of strangers, acquaintances, and trusted adults and demonstrate safe and appropriate ways to deal with each
2.1 F. Social and Emotional Health
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How can you learn to like yourself and others?	- Developing self esteem, resiliency, tolerance and coping skills support social and emotional health.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe basic human needs and how individuals and families attempt to meet those needs.
2. Discuss how culture, peers, and the media impact the way individuals communicate and express emotions, and how emotions can affect communication, choices, and behaviors.
3. Distinguish among conflict, violence, vandalism, harassment, and bullying and discuss factors that contribute to each.
4. Describe and demonstrate strategies to prevent, reduce, or mediate conflict.
5. Discuss the causes of stress and demonstrate ways to deal with stressful situations.
6. Explain and demonstrate ways to cope with rejection, loss, and separation.
7. Explain how stereotypes influence personal growth and behavior.

Standard 2.2 Integrated Skills All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Big Idea: The use of critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, leadership and communication skills are essential to making informed personal, family and community health decisions.
2.2 A Communication
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do you know whether or not health information is accurate? - How do I learn to stand for and communicate my beliefs to others without alienating them?	- Making good health decisions requires the ability to access and evaluate reliable resources. - Effective communication skills enhance a person’s ability to express and defend their beliefs.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Explain how to determine the validity and reliability of a health resource.
2. Present health information, orally and in writing, to peers.
3. Describe and demonstrate the effective use of communication skills, including refusal, negotiation, and assertiveness.
4. Identify and employ ways to improve listening skills.
5. Explain how to identify a health problem or issue for possible research.

2.2 B Decision Making
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-Why might educated people make poor health decisions? -How do I overcome negative influences when making decisions about my personal health?	-Decision-making can be affected by a variety of influences that may not be in a person’s best interest.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Outline the steps to making an effective decision.
2. Discuss how parents, peers, and the media influence health decisions and behaviors.
3. Describe situations that might require a decision about health and safety.

2.2 C Planning and Goal Setting
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-In order to achieve lifetime wellness, what should I plan for and what should I just let happen?	-Developing and implementing a plan to reach realistic wellness goals increases the likelihood of reaching those goals.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Develop a personal health goal and track progress.
2. Describe ways to support the achievement of health goals.

2.2 D Character Development
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-How are character and health related? What aspects of our character can be changed? -To what extent do outside influences shape values?	-Character can be developed and supported through individual and group activities, the influence of positive role models and involvement in community service. -Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe character traits and core ethical values such as trustworthiness, responsibility, respect, caring, justice, fairness, civic virtue, and citizenship
2. Discuss how an individual’s character positively impacts individual and group goals and success.

2.2 E Leadership, Advocacy and Service
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-How can you inspire others to address health issues?	-Leadership and advocacy to promote personal and community wellness can impact the immediate community and society as a whole.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe and demonstrate the characteristics of an effective leader.
2. Acknowledge the contributions of group members and choose appropriate ways to motivate them and celebrate their accomplishments.
3. Demonstrate respect for the opinions and abilities of group members.
4. Develop and articulate group goals.
5. Develop a position on a wellness issue.
6. Discuss laws and regulations created to enhance wellness.
7. Organize and participate in a school or community service activity and discuss how helping others impacts personal and community wellness.

2.2 F Health Services and Careers
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-Where do I go to access information about good health and fitness services?	-There are numerous health and fitness programs available that provide a variety of services. Not all are created equal.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe health and fitness services provided in the school and community.
2. Describe and demonstrate how to seek help for a variety of health and fitness concerns.
3. Discuss wellness and fitness careers.

Standard 2.3 Drugs and Medicine All students will learn and apply information about alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and medicines to make decisions that support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Big Idea: Knowledge about drugs and medicines informs decision making related to personal wellness and the wellness of others.
2.3 A Medicines
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
How do I determine whether or not a medication will be effective?	Medicines must be used correctly in order to be safe and have the maximum benefit.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Distinguish between over-the-counter and prescription medicines.
2. Identify commonly used medicines and discuss why they are used.
3. Discuss the importance of taking medicines as ordered, not sharing medicines with others, and reporting any side effects to a trusted adult.
2.3 B Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- Why do people choose to use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs when they are aware of the detrimental effects? - How do I make the “right” decisions in the face of peer, media and other pressures?	- Research has clearly established that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have a variety of harmful effects on the human body.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Explain why it is illegal to use or possess certain drugs/substances.
2. Describe the short- and long-term physical effects of tobacco use.
3. Discuss the impact of second-hand/passive smoke on the health of nonsmokers.
4. Identify the short- and long-term physical and behavioral effects of alcohol use and abuse.
5. Identify the physical and behavioral effects of marijuana use.
6. Explain that brain damage, lung damage, and death can occur from inhaling certain substances, such as solvents, propellants, and medicinal gases.
2.3 C Dependency/Addiction and Treatment
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
-Why does one person become an addict and another does not?	- There are common indicators, stages and influencing factors of chemical dependency.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Discuss signs that a person might have a problem with the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
2. Identify where individuals with a substance abuse problem can get help.
3. Differentiate among drug use, abuse, and misuse.
4. Describe how advertising, peers, and adults influence children and teenagers to try alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Standard 2.4 Human Relationships and Sexuality

All students will learn the physical, social, and emotional aspects of human relationships and sexuality and apply these concepts to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

Big Idea: Understanding the various aspects of human relationships and sexuality assists in making good choices about healthy living.