State Curriculum - Health

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Grade PK Grade K
Standard 6.0 Nutrition and Fitness: Students will demonstrate the ability to use nutrition and fitness knowledge, skills, and strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle. Standard 6.0 Nutrition and Fitness: Students will demonstrate the ability to use nutrition and fitness knowledge, skills, and strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle.
A. Responses to Food A. Responses to Food
1. Identify the relationship between food and the senses
1. Identify the relationship between food and the senses
a. Recognize that foods have different tastes, such as sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.
a. Compare foods that have different smells.
  b. Tell why food appearance affects food choices, such as color, shape, and texture.
B. Food Production
1. Tell the source of different foods.
  a. Identify foods that come from different sources, such as plant and animal.
C. Manners
1. Define proper eating manners
  a. Demonstrate proper eating manners, such as chew with mouth closed, don’t talk with mouth full, don’t reach across the table, and don’t grab food from others’ plates.
E. Food and Health E. Food and Health
1. Recognize the relationship between food and health.
1. Recognize the relationship between food and health.
a. Tell why the body needs food.
a. Explain how food affects the body.
  b. Discuss how media influences food choices.
F. Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines
1. Identify food categories.
  a. Name the food groups.
  b. List examples in each food group.