State Curriculum - Health

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Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2
Standard 2.0 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the use, non-use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Standard 2.0 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the use, non-use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Standard 2.0 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the use, non-use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
A. Medicine A. Medicine A. Medicine
1. Identify appropriate uses of medicine.
 		1. Identify appropriate uses of medicine.
 		1. Identify practices for using medicine safely.
a. List common medicines.
 a. Define the term drug.
 a. Describe rules for taking medicine safely.
b. Discuss safe use of medicines.
 b. Define the term medicine.
  
  c. Describe the functions of medicines.
  
B. Tobacco B. Tobacco
1. Identify how tobacco use harms health.
 		1. Identify how tobacco use affects health.
  a. List products containing tobacco.
 a. Discuss how tobacco use can become a habit.
  b. Describe the harmful effects of tobacco such as hard to breathe, bad breath, stained teeth, cause disease.
 b. Summarize the benefits of not using tobacco.
C. Alcohol C. Alcohol
1. Identify the physical effects of using alcohol.
 		1. Identify physical consequences of the use of alcohol.
  a. Distinguish alcohol as a drug.
 a. Describe the short term effects of alcohol use on the body, for example blurred vision, lack of coordination, and slow reaction time.
  b. Identify products containing alcohol.
  
  c. Recognize that alcohol is unhealthy and illegal for children.
  
E. Drugs and the Law
1. Identify ways to say no to unsafe medicine/drug use.
    a. Distinguish between illegal drugs and medicine.
    b. Demonstrate refusal skills to resist pressure to use drugs.