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Arizona K–6 health standards

Arizona writes its own health standards. They are published as Arizona Health Education Standards (2010), adopted 2010 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Framework
Arizona Health Education Standards (2010)
Adopted
2010
Source last checked
July 22, 2026
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109 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • S1.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health and overall well-being
  • S1.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Recognize what the human body is and what it means to be healthy
  • S1.C3.K-2.PO1K-2
    Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases
  • S1.C3.K-2.PO2K-2
    Identify that foods are classified into food groups and that a variety of food is needed for personal health, growth, and development
  • S1.C3.K-2.PO3K-2
    Identify that physical activity is integral to good health
  • S1.C4.K-2.PO1K-2
    List ways to prevent common childhood injuries
  • S1.C5.K-2.PO1K-2
    Describe why it is important to seek health care
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO2K-2
    Recognize how culture influences health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO3K-2
    Recognize how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO4K-2
    Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO5K-2
    Describe how the media can influence health behaviors
  • S2.C1.K-2.PO6K-2
    Recognize how technology can influence personal health
  • S3.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health
  • S3.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers
  • S4.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings
  • S4.C1.K-2.PO2K-2
    Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health
  • S4.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Demonstrate ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation
  • S4.C3.K-2.PO1K-2
    Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed
  • S5.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making
  • S5.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed
  • S5.C2.K-2.PO2K-2
    Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed
  • S6.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal
  • S6.C2.K-2.PO2K-2
    Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal
  • S7.C2.K-2.PO1K-2
    Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health
  • S7.C2.K-2.PO2K-2
    Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks
  • S8.C1.K-2.PO1K-2
    Make requests to promote personal health
  • S8.C1.K-2.PO2K-2
    Encourage family and peers to make positive health choices
  • S1.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health
  • S1.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health
  • S1.C3.3-5.PO13-5
    Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.
  • S1.C3.3-5.PO23-5
    Describe the key nutrients contained in the food groups and how these nutrients affect health and learning
  • S1.C3.3-5.PO33-5
    Describe how physical activity impacts health
  • S1.C4.3-5.PO13-5
    Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems
  • S1.C5.3-5.PO13-5
    Describe when it is important to seek health care
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO23-5
    Identify the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO33-5
    Describe how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO43-5
    Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO53-5
    Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors
  • S2.C1.3-5.PO63-5
    Describe ways that technology can influence personal health
  • S3.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
  • S3.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information
  • S4.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
  • S4.C1.3-5.PO23-5
    Demonstrate refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks
  • S4.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Demonstrate nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict
  • S4.C3.3-5.PO13-5
    Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health
  • S5.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO23-5
    Analyze when assistance is needed when making a health- related decision
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO33-5
    List healthy options to health-related issues or problems
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO43-5
    Predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO53-5
    Choose a healthy option when making a decision
  • S5.C2.3-5.PO63-5
    Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision
  • S6.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement
  • S6.C2.3-5.PO23-5
    Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal
  • S7.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Identify responsible personal health behaviors
  • S7.C2.3-5.PO13-5
    Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health
  • S7.C2.3-5.PO23-5
    Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks
  • S8.C1.3-5.PO13-5
    Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues
  • S8.C1.3-5.PO23-5
    Encourage others to make positive health choices
  • S1.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health
  • S1.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence
  • S1.C3.6-8.PO16-8
    Analyze how the environment affects personal health
  • S1.C3.6-8.PO26-8
    Analyze how food provides energy and nutrients for growth and development, that nutrition requirements vary from person to person, and how food intake affects health
  • S1.C3.6-8.PO36-8
    Analyze how physical activity contributes to disease prevention
  • S1.C3.6-8.PO46-8
    Describe how family history can affect personal health
  • S1.C4.6-8.PO16-8
    Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems
  • S1.C5.6-8.PO16-8
    Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health
  • S1.C6.6-8.PO16-8
    Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors
  • S1.C6.6-8.PO26-8
    Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors
  • S1.C6.6-8.PO36-8
    Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO26-8
    Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO36-8
    Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO46-8
    Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO56-8
    Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors
  • S2.C1.6-8.PO66-8
    Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health
  • S2.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C2.6-8.PO26-8
    Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors
  • S2.C2.6-8.PO36-8
    Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors
  • S2.C3.6-8.PO16-8
    Examine and explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention
  • S3.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services
  • S3.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Access valid health information from home, school, and community
  • S3.C2.6-8.PO26-8
    Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health
  • S3.C2.6-8.PO36-8
    Describe situations that may require professional health services
  • S3.C2.6-8.PO46-8
    Locate valid and reliable health products and services
  • S4.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
  • S4.C1.6-8.PO26-8
    Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks
  • S4.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Identify effective conflict management or resolution strategies
  • S4.C3.6-8.PO16-8
    Identify ways to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others
  • S5.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Determine when health- related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO26-8
    Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO36-8
    Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO46-8
    Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO56-8
    Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision
  • S5.C2.6-8.PO66-8
    Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision
  • S6.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Assess personal health practices
  • S6.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice
  • S6.C2.6-8.PO26-8
    Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal
  • S6.C2.6-8.PO36-8
    Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities
  • S7.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors
  • S7.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others
  • S7.C2.6-8.PO26-8
    Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others
  • S8.C1.6-8.PO16-8
    State a health enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information
  • S8.C1.6-8.PO26-8
    Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices
  • S8.C2.6-8.PO16-8
    Demonstrate how to work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools
  • S8.C3.6-8.PO16-8
    Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences

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