Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Health
Grade/Program: One

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. Differentiate between safe and harmful substances found at home and at school.

 

Students will be able to identify substances that are safe to use and unsafe to use.
Students will know that if they can't identify a substance that they should not touch it, and ask an adult
.

Roll play being offered a variety of substances and making the correct choices of what to do.

Sort pictures of harmful and safe substances..

Harmful
substance
Poison
Alcohol
Medicine
Drugs
.

2. Demonstrate personal hygiene skill.

 

Students will recognize the importance of brushing their teeth, shampooing their hair, taking baths and washing their hands.

See Health A2.
February Dental Health Month activities
Tommy and Toni Teeth download and other health resources:
http://www.generalmills.com/nutrition/wic/em.htm

Take home chart/checklist of daily personal hygiene for a week.

hygiene
chart
checklist
daily
.

3. Choose healthful foods.

 

Students will know a healthful food from an unhealthful food.

Use a food pyramid.
Identify the food groups in the school lunches
.
Check lunch from home and identify the food groups included.
Food pyramid to download and other health resources:
http://www.generalmills.com/nutrition/wic/em.htm

Sort pictures of healthful and unhealthful foods.

food pyramid
healthful
unhealthful

4. Demonstrate a variety of safety skills for different situations (eg., pedestrian, bus, fire, auto and bicycle safety).

 

Students will know to be safe as a pedestrian and as a passenger in an automobile.

Graph how students get to school.
Role play safely crossing a street, riding in a car.
Review skills from kindergarten.

Draw and label an activity being done safely and unsafely.

pedestrian
passenger
helmet
fire drill
evacuation

5. Apply coping strategies when they feel too excited, anxious, angry or out of control.

Students will recognize when they feel out of control and be able to make a good choice in adapting their behavior.

Discuss and demonstrate ways to cope with anger or excitement.
Count to ten, walk away, get help from a grown-up, talk.

Teacher observation
Behavior checklist/plan for some individuals

Behavior
Anger
Excited
Emotions