Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Health
Grade: 4

Content Standard: C. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Students will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of healthy behaviors.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators

Students will be able to:

Essential Elements
(Specific grade level learning objectives)
Suggested Performance Activities
Suggested Classroom Assessments
Vocabulary

1. Compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful (e.g., Bicycle safety, handling weapons, use of medicines).

Playground safety
Bike safety (helmets)
Handling weapons
Use of medicine
Car seats/seat belts

Ongoing safety discussions

Explain to a friend why it's important to wear a helmet when riding your bike.

safety

2. Develop injury prevention and safety strategies for personal health.

Strategies might include tying shoelaces, looking both ways when crossing streets, etc.

Ongoing safety discussions

Teacher observation

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3. Demonstrate basic care of human body systems.

Skin
Digestive system
Circulatory system
Respiratory system
Muscular system
Skeletal system

Discussions and lessons concerning the basic care of the following:

  • Skin, including basic first aid for cuts and burns
  • Digestive, including proper nutrition
  • Circulatory and Muscular, including benefits of exercise
  • Respiratory, including damage caused by smoking

Students will explain how their body system benefit from bike riding, swimming, or other strenuous exercise.

systems
skin
digestive
circulatory
respiratory
muscular
skeletal
organ
nerve cells
tissue

4. Demonstrate healthful and safe ways to deal with or avoid threatening and stressful situations.

Stressful situations might include tests, family deaths, etc.

Threatening situations might include accidents, storms, etc.

Ongoing safety discussions and discussions related to literature.

Given a stressful or threatening situation, students will tell how they would react.

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