Arizona K–6 health standards

Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health and overall well-being

Recognize what the human body is and what it means to be healthy

Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases

Identify that foods are classified into food groups and that a variety of food is needed for personal health, growth, and development

Identify that physical activity is integral to good health

List ways to prevent common childhood injuries

Describe why it is important to seek health care

Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors

Recognize how culture influences health practices and behaviors

Recognize how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors

Recognize how technology can influence personal health

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health

Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health

Demonstrate ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation

Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed

Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed

Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal

Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks

Make requests to promote personal health

Encourage family and peers to make positive health choices

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health

Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.

Describe the key nutrients contained in the food groups and how these nutrients affect health and learning

Describe how physical activity impacts health

Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems

Describe when it is important to seek health care

Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors

Identify the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors

Describe how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

Describe ways that technology can influence personal health

Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Demonstrate refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks

Demonstrate nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

Analyze when assistance is needed when making a health- related decision

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems

Predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

Choose a healthy option when making a decision

Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

Identify responsible personal health behaviors

Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health

Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks

Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues

Encourage others to make positive health choices

Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence

Analyze how the environment affects personal health

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

Analyze how physical activity contributes to disease prevention

Describe how family history can affect personal health

Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems

Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health

Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors

Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents

Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors

Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors

Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors

Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health

Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors

Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors

Examine and explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention

Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services

Access valid health information from home, school, and community

Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health

Describe situations that may require professional health services

Locate valid and reliable health products and services

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks

Identify effective conflict management or resolution strategies

Identify ways to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Determine when health- related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process

Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems

Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision

Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision

Assess personal health practices

Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice

Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal

Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities

Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others

State a health enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information

Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices

Demonstrate how to work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools

Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences