Florida K–6 health standards

Recognize ways the community encourages a healthy environment.

Recognize ways in the community to prevent common communicable diseases.

Explain the importance of rules to maintain health.

Recognize ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings.

Encourage others make positive health choices.

Recognize warning labels and signs on hazardous products and places.

Define healthy and unhealthy choices.

Define ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional.

Identify healthy behaviors that affect personal health.

Understand how you can prevent childhood injuries in the home, school, and community settings.

Recognize there are body parts inside and outside of the body.

Recognize ways you can prevent common communicable diseases.

Identify members of the school and community who support personal health practices and behaviors.

Name healthy behaviors that family members should practice.

Identify safe and unsafe examples of internet use.

Name situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed.

Recognize healthy options to personal health-related issues or problems.

Recognize the consequences of not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions.

Define a personal health goal and how it relates to overall health.

Identify the appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Define and give examples of kindness and caring.

Demonstrate the ability to take turns and share with others.

Describe ways to show respect to others.

Identify the difference between the truth and a lie.

Identify healthy choices that affect personal wellness.

Demonstrate the ability to follow rules and directions.

Discuss the value of goal setting.

Identify and recognize basic feelings.

Identify personal strengths and actions individuals can do independently.

Identify the roles and responsibilities of trusted adults.

Identify characteristics of a good citizen in school and the community.

Identify when help is needed and who to ask for help.

Identify the importance of sharing thoughts and ideas to solve problems.

Discuss ways to work together to solve problems.

Identify ways the community encourages a healthy environment.

Understand ways to prevent common communicable diseases in the community.

Recognize health consequences for not following rules.

Identify ways in the community to prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings.

Help others to make positive health choices.

Determine the meaning of warning labels and signs on hazardous products and places.

List healthy and unhealthy choices for personal health and safety.

Discuss ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional.

Recognize how healthy behaviors affect personal health.

Identify how you can prevent childhood injuries in the home, school, and community settings.

Identify the correct names of human body parts.

Describe ways you can prevent common communicable diseases.

Tell about behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify how children learn health behaviors from family and friends.

Explain why personal information should not be shared on the internet.

Describe situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed.

Identify healthy options to personal health-related issues or problems.

Explain the consequences of not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions.

Establish a short-term health goal as a class and monitor progress toward achieving the goal.

Describe appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Identify ways one can make request to promote personal health.

Discuss ways to respect personal property and personal space of others.

Describe the traits of a good friend.

Identify the benefits of sharing and cooperation.

Define and give examples of honesty.

Identify strategies to overcome a challenge.

Identify my role and responsibilities in the school, community, and family.

Establish a short-term goal as a class and take action toward achieving the goal.

Identify the characteristics of a responsible decision maker.

Describe how individual actions can affect others.

Identify strategies to discover and demonstrate personal strengths.

Identify healthy ways to express needs and wants.

Identify characteristics of a leader in the school community.

Demonstrate the characteristics of a good citizen in school and the community.

Identify the importance of working together to solve problems.

Identify the importance of sharing thoughts and ideas as an individual and as part of a group.

Understand that conflict may arise when working together.

Identify how healthy behaviors affect the community.

Describe ways to prevent common communicable diseases in the community.

Explain the ways that rules make the classroom, school, and community safer.

Describe how the school and community influence health behaviors of children.

Describe ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings.

Support peers when making positive health choices.

Understand the meaning of warning labels and signs on hazardous products.

Describe healthy and unhealthy choices.

Practice ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional.

Discuss how healthy behaviors affect personal health.

Describe ways you can prevent personal injuries.

Recognize the locations and functions of major human organs.

Select trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Recognize healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Describe how outside influences, family, and friends can influence personal health decisions.

Describe ways a safe, healthy home environment can promote personal health.

Describe the attributes of a safe and responsible internet user.

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

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

Compare the consequences of following/not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions.

Discuss short-term and long-term goals and their importance to physical health.

Establish a short-term health goal as a class and monitor progress toward achieving the goal.

Demonstrate appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Identify the benefits of showing kindness and treating others with respect.

Identify what a conflict is and how disagreements can happen.

Explain the importance of being truthful.

Identify ways to make positive contributions to the wellbeing of the school and the community.

Identify personal goals and strategies to achieve those goals.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and listening skills.

Identify personal strengths and areas for improvement.

Identify ways to benefit the school and the community.

Identify characteristics of a community leader.

Identify strategies to work together to solve problems.

Identify how disagreements can be settled using conflict resolution skills.

Relate how healthy behaviors impact the community.

Understand common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments.

Identify the impact of internet and social media in the community.

Identify classroom and school rules that promote health and disease prevention.

Explore how the traditions and customs of the school and community influence health behavior of children.

Explore ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings.

Encourage positive behaviors and healthy choices by others.

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

Describe why it is important to seek health care.

Describe how the internet and various media/social media

Identify resources that could assist in achieving personal health goals.

Describe criteria for selecting health information, resources, products, and services.

Describe ways to encourage healthy school environments.

Describe healthy behaviors that affect personal health.

Apply ways you can prevent personal injuries.

Recognize that body parts and organs work together to form human body systems.

Discuss behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate health behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Describe how outside influences, family, and friends can influence health behaviors.

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

Understand the positive and negative impacts technology may have on health.

Identify appropriate and inappropriate uses of the internet and communicating with others through technology.

Identify types of cyberbullying.

Explain when assistance is needed when making a health-related decision.

Recognize healthy options when making decisions for yourself that avoid or reduce health risks.

Discuss the potential short-term personal impact of each option when making a health-related decision.

Select a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement.

Discuss healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

Practice appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Identify skills needed when working with others.

Identify ways to display trustworthiness.

Discuss ways to be loyal to friends and family.

Categorize resources used to achieve a personal goal.

Identify ways in which my decisions affect others.

Describe positive ways to deal with failure and learn from challenges.

Discuss how skills can be improved through hard work and perseverance.

Identify leadership opportunities within the school and the community.

Identify opportunities to volunteer or serve others in the school or community.

Explain the importance of always taking ownership for personal actions.

Identify different solutions and potential outcomes when problems arise.

Investigate how healthy and unhealthy behaviors impact the community.

Recognize common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments.

Discuss the impact of internet and social media in the community.

Recognize types of school rules and community laws that promote health and disease prevention.

Explain the important roles that school and community play in health practices and behaviors.

Compare community resources available to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.

Assist others to make positive health choices in their school and community.

Describe characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

Distinguish differences among various healthcare providers, products, and services.

Recognize ways health messages and communication

Categorize resources that could assist in achieving a small group personal health goal.

Construct criteria for selecting health resources, products, services, and reputable technologies.

Choose ways to promote healthy school environments.

Identify examples of mental and physical health.

Analyze ways you can prevent personal injuries.

Identify the human body parts and organs that work together to form healthy body systems.

Identify the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Identify how outside influences, including family and friends, affect health practices and behaviors.

Describe ways a safe, healthy school environment can influence personal health.

Discuss how technology influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Discuss how media/social media influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Identify health-related consequences of inappropriate and/or excessive internet use.

Examine when assistance is needed to make a health-related decision.

Apply healthy options when making decisions to maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks.

Predict the potential short-term impact of each option on self and others when making a health-related decision.

Create a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement.

Choose healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

Select appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Consider the perspectives of others.

Identify the benefits of treating others with respect.

Predict the potential outcomes of repeating and/or sharing information that is not true.

Identify strategies to help persevere in difficult situations.

Discuss ways to take responsibility for ones actions.

Identify the value of making healthy choices for personal well-being.

Create a personal goal and track progress toward achievement.

Explain how attitudes and thoughts can influence your behavior.

Identify opportunities to actively participate as a responsible citizen in the school and the local community.

Model serving or helping others in the school or community.

Describe how perseverance may help overcome obstacles.

Describe strategies to resolve conflicts.

Compare and contrast how healthy and unhealthy behaviors impact the community.

Explain common childhood health conditions and their impact on school and community environments.

Explain how community health can be impacted by internet and social media in the community.

Give examples of school and public health policies that influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Investigate influences that change health beliefs and behaviors.

Determine how media/social media influences health behaviors and the selection of health information, products, and services.

Research community resources available to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.

Persuade others to make positive health choices.

Discuss characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

Research resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information.

Recognize appropriate health care products and services in the community.

Identify ways health messages and communication

Select reliable resources that would assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Evaluate criteria for selecting health resources, products, and services.

Develop a plan as a class to champion healthy school environments.

Demonstrate the physical and mental dimensions of health.

Explain ways you can prevent personal injuries.

Explain how human body parts and organs work together in healthy body systems, including the endocrine and reproductive systems.

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Explain how outside influences, including family and friends, affect health practices and behaviors.

Explain ways a safe, healthy home and school environment promote personal health.

Explain how technology influences personal thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Discuss how media/social media influences personal and family health behaviors.

Identify the legal and social consequences of inappropriate social media use.

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

Select a healthy option when making decisions for yourself to maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks.

Compare the potential short-term impact of each option on self and others when making a health-related decision.

Develop a personal health goal and track progress toward achievement.

Summarize healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

Evaluate appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Discuss how to work together to achieve a positive outcome.

Identify how to communicate effectively within a group.

Describe the importance of considering the perspective of others when communicating.

Discuss ways that honesty and trustworthiness can lead to school and career success.

Describe the importance of having the courage to the do the right thing even when it is difficult.

Discuss how responsible decision-making affects personal well-being.

Select reliable resources that would assist in achieving a personal goal.

Devise an individual goal (short or long term) to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal practice.

Explain how attitudes and thoughts can influence your behavior and affect others.

Demonstrate how to positively respond to external influences.

Identify leadership skills that encourage and empower others.

Identify ways to participate in decision-making in the school or community.

Apply organizational strategies that support completing multiple tasks efficiently.

Identify successful strategies for adjusting to change and setbacks.

Compare conflict resolution methods to identify potential solutions.

Describe how the physical, mental, social, and intellectual dimensions of community health are interrelated.

Identify community health problems and concerns common to adolescents.

Identify the impact of health information conveyed to students by the school and community.

Investigate changes to societal norms and how they influence health beliefs and behaviors.

Examine how media/social media influences peer and community health behaviors.

Propose ways that technology can influence peer and community health behaviors.

Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.

Specify the potential outcomes of each option when making a community health-related decision.

Describe how the community can influence and support others to make positive health choices.

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

Examine how appropriate health care can promote personal health.

Investigate a variety of technologies to gather health information.

Identify available resources and services needed to attain a personal health goal.

Illustrate ways health messages and communication

Examine the validity of health information and determine the cost benefit of health products and services.

Identify ways students can request access to appropriate resources and services that promote healthy living.

Describe how the physical, mental social, and intellectual dimensions of health are interrelated.

Identify personal health problems and concerns common to adolescents including reproductive development.

Examine the importance of assuming responsibility for personal reproductive health behaviors.

Describe situations when professional health services may be required.

Analyze how media/social media influences personal and peer thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Identify environmental factors that affect personal health.

Examine how friends and peers influence the health of adolescents.

Examine how family and culture influence the health of adolescents.

Recognize how personal health choices can affect hereditary risk factors.

Determine how social norms may impact healthy and unhealthy behavior.

Explain how body systems are impacted by hereditary factors and infectious diseases.

Describe legal and ethical behaviors when using the internet and social media.

Distinguish between the need for individual or collaborative decision making.

Specify the potential outcomes of each option when making a personal health-related decision.

Predict the potential outcomes of a health-related decision.

Use various methods to measure personal health status.

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

Determine strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.

Monitor progress toward attaining a personal health goal.

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

Explore healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve personal health and reduce health risks.

Use valid and reliable information to request access to health products, services, or environments.

Demonstrate the ability to respond with empathy in a variety of contexts and situations.

Describe the importance of empathy, kindness, honesty and trust in building and sustaining relationships.

Identify sources of relational conflicts and healthy approaches to conflict resolutions.

Discuss how character is shaped by attitudes, decisions and actions.

Demonstrate responsible decision-making that considers multiple perspectives.

Describe the importance of following school and community laws and rules.

Monitor progress toward attaining a personal goal.

Explain strategies and skills needed to assess progress and maintenance of a challenging personal goal.

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

Identify how continuous learning leads to personal growth.

Identify strategies to manage challenges and setbacks.

Identify healthy responses to negative peer pressure.

Discuss ways a leader can build the trust of individuals and groups.

Explain and develop ways to apply leadership skills in the school and the community.

Identify the importance of volunteerism in positively affecting the community and nation.

Identify ways to participate in our constitutional republic through public policy, voting, and leadership positions.

Analyze possible solutions to a problem to determine the best outcome for oneself and others.

Develop and apply conflict resolution skills in a variety of situations.

Analyze ways to pursue common goals as a part of a team or group.

Identify the importance of perseverance when facing difficulty solving a problem.

Demonstrate responsible decision-making about the use of substances.

Define terminology specific to alcohol misuse/abuse and discuss the short- and long-term effects of consuming alcohol.

Discuss the health risks associated with alcohol

Describe the types, delivery devices and accessibility of marijuana/THC products and their impacts on prevalence of use.

Examine the effects of marijuana/THC and opioids on body systems and behavior.

State the risks of misusing and sharing prescription and/or illicit drugs, including fentanyl and other opioids.

Identify signs and symptoms of prescription and/or illicit drug misuse and overdose, including fentanyl and other opioids.

Describe the short- and long-term physical and social consequences of tobacco, nicotine use and/or vaping.

Discuss family rules, school rules and state laws about the use of alcohol and other drugs.

Discuss the dangers of underage consumption of alcohol and the benefits of abstaining from drinking alcohol.

Describe how external factors can influence behaviors related to tobacco, nicotine use, and/or vaping.

Explain school-based policies and legal consequences

Discuss ways to identify valid and reliable multi-media information as it pertains to alcohol and other drugs.

Identify how to find and access school and community resources related to alcohol misuse and/or abuse.

Differentiate between marijuana/THC myths and facts.

Explain how family, peers and multi-media messages over time can influence the use of marijuana/THC.

Describe the three major categories, purposes and side effects of prescription drugs.

Distinguish valid and reliable resources for cessation.

Demonstrate refusal and communication skills in specific scenarios related to underage drinking and illicit drug use.

Predict the potential short- and long-term impacts on self

Work cooperatively with peers to advocate for others to remain alcohol and drug free.

Demonstrate ways to seek help and support from trusted

Identify the consequences of marijuana/THC use and work cooperatively to advocate for healthy behaviors.

Model ways that encourage others to avoid situations where alcohol and other drugs are present or may be used.

Encourage peers to model healthy choices related to goals, communication, friendship and peer pressure.

Describe how to support family and friends who are trying to stop using tobacco, nicotine, and/or vaping.