State Curriculum - Health

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Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources. Standard 3.0 Personal and Consumer Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use consumer knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop sound personal health practices involving the use of health care products, services, and community resources.
A. Personal Health Maintenance A. Personal Health Maintenance A. Personal Health Maintenance A. Personal Health Maintenance A. Personal Health Maintenance A. Personal Health Maintenance
1. Identify ways to care for your body.
1. Explain how to improve or maintain personal health.
1. Explain how to improve or maintain personal health.
1. Identify and practice health-enhancing behaviors to reduce health risks for safer, healthier lives.
1. Examine health-enhancing behaviors to reduce health risks for safer, healthier lives.
1. Access and evaluate health enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks to live safer, healthier lives.
a. Identify why it is important to keep your body clean such as preventing diseases, smelling nice, looking nice.
a. Describe ways to promote dental health such as brushing and flossing teeth, visiting dentist, and eating healthy foods.
a. Describe behaviors to care for the health of eyes and ears.
  a. Identify personal health needs.
a. Evaluate personal health behaviors.
  a. Evaluate the negative consequences of behaviors, including tattoos, body piercings, and sharing health products.
b. List ways you can keep your body clean such as taking a bath or shower, shampooing hair, washing your hands, wearing clean clothes, and brushing your teeth.
  b. Describe behaviors to promote overall body health, such as visiting the doctor, exercising, adequate nutrition, practicing hygiene, and avoiding hazards.
  b. Demonstrate skills and strategies to improve and maintain personal health.
b. Examine how personal health habits affect social wellness.
  b. Analyze how health behaviors and use of health services are influenced by diversity, such as family traditions, social/cultural customs, religious beliefs, geographic locations (access to services), and economic status.
c. List the proper steps for hand-washing.
      c. Describe how conditions of the environment affect personal health.
     
        d. Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.
     
B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services B. Information, Products, and Services
1. Identify health services available in the school.
1. Identify health services available in the community.
1. Locate resources that provide valid health information concerning consumer health issues and services.
1. Locate resources from home and school that provide valid health information concerning consumer health issues and services.
1. Locate resources in the community that provide valid health information concerning consumer health issues and services.
1. Access and compare health information, products, and services in order to become health literate consumers.
1. Access and evaluate health information, products, and services in order to become health literate consumers.
  a. List people in the school that provide care such as school nurse, counselors, doctors, and clinic workers.
a. List community resources that provide health care.
a. Identify the health services available in the school and community.
a. Identify current health care issues and the health services available in the school.
a. Identify current health care issues and the health services available in the community.
a. Appraise health care products, services, and resources based on valid criteria.
a. Describe society’s responsibility for maintaining and improving the quality and availability of health care from health clinics, physicians, Medicaid/Medicare, governmental agencies, and community based organizations.
  b. Describe how health service providers help you.
b. List reasons people might go to a hospital or clinic.
b. Analyze various media messages for valid health information.
    b. Describe health care services, such as physicians/specialists, local health departments, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and holistic medicines.
 
    c. Describe health services available to you in a hospital or clinic.
c. Identify advertising techniques used in different media sources to sell health products.
       
      d. Identify and recognize product label information.
       
C. Pollution and Personal Health Issues C. Pollution and Personal Health Issues
1. Identify health issues created by pollution.
1. Identify health issues created by pollution.
  a. Explain why litter is harmful.
a. Identify types of pollution such as air, water, and waste.
         
  b. List ways to prevent littering.
b. List how the types of pollution affect your body and your health.