21.K-2.HL.1
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and use basic health concepts to enhance personal, family, and community health.
Know and use concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention
- Identify ways to be healthy
- Recognize multiple dimensions of wellness
- Describe how physical, emotional, social, and environmental factors influence personal health
- Identify ways to prevent illness and injury
- Know when and how to ask for help with health care
- Identify the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems
- Recognize that personal health behaviors influence an individual’s well being
- List preventive physical and mental health measures, including proper diet, nutrition, exercise, risk avoidance and stress reduction
Analyze influencing factors on health enhancing behaviors
- Identify positive and negative effects of media and technology upon health practices and choices
21.K-2.HL.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and use interactive literacy and social skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.
Demonstrate social and communication skills to enhance health and increase safety
- Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal ways to express wants, needs, and feelings appropriately
- Choose effective conflict management strategies
- Show how to ask for help
- Identify ways to communicate care, consideration, empathy and respect for self and others
Advocate for personal, family and community health
- Identify personal health needs
- Articulate ways to influence and support others to make positive health choices
- Identify ways to improve family and community health
- Recognize mean and violent acts and demonstrate appropriate responses
21.K-2.HL.3
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Recognize critical literacy/thinking skills related to personal, family and community wellness.
Demonstrate decision making skills
- Understand the interrelationships between decisions, choices and consequences
- Recognize the effectiveness of health-related decisions
- Recognize the need to ask for assistance when making health-related decisions
- Identify that health related decisions have an impact on individual, family, community, and environment
Demonstrate goal-setting skills
- Set personal goals
21.K-2.HL.4
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Identify influences that affect personal health and the health of others.
Analyze the influence of family, peers, health professionals, culture, media, technology, and other health factors
- Identify negative and positive health practices
- Describe how culture influences personal health choices
- Identify trusted adults/professionals who can help
Access valid information, products and services
- Selects appropriate products for minor injuries or illnesses
21.K-2.HL.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill: Demonstrate behaviors that foster healthy, active lifestyles for individuals and the benefit of society.
Achieve and maintain health enhancing level of physical activity
- Practice fitness skills
- Practice basic health enhancing physical behaviors
Practice preventive health behaviors
- Identify stress and stress relievers
- Identify risk behaviors and practice healthy choices
- Identify healthy foods
- Identify behaviors that contribute to total wellness for individuals, families and communities