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
4. Develop injury prevention and response strategies for personal safety, including first aid.	Students will develop and understand ways to take personal safety and injury prevention into their own hands.	Discuss the towns rules that relate to safety, the different types of accidents, how accidents occur, safety prevention techniques, emergency response practices	"Creating a Safe Town" (MAP Task)	personal safety, natural and manmade disasters, basic first aid technique
6. Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy stress management techniques.	Students will demonstrate an understanding of healthy and unhealthy stress management strategies and describe how stressors affect a person's overall personal health.	Teacher and students will: -provide knowledge and examples of what causes stress -explain how people react to stress -give examples of healthy and unhealthy ways people cope with stress -describe the health triangle and the relationship of each side to the other	"Getting a Handle on Stress" (MAP Task)	stress, depression, mental health, socially acceptable behaviors, norms, suicide, personal hygiene, health triangle