Georgia K–6 health standards

Identify healthy behaviors.

Recognize potentially harmful substances.

Identify safety hazards.

Identify how family, peers, and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being.

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices.

Identify types of trusted adults and professionals as resources for health information.

Identify specific health professionals in the school and community.

Examine ways to express feelings in a healthy way.

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.

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

Discuss ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

Identify health-related situations.

Use a decision-making model in a health-related situation.

Identify people who can assist in problem-solving and decision making.

Identify a personal health goal.

Identify family members or trusted adults who can assist with achieving a short-term health goal

Demonstrate healthy behaviors that improve personal health and wellness.

Demonstrate healthy behaviors that prevent injuries.

Seek assistance to promote personal health.

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Identify how healthy behaviors impact personal health and wellness.

Identify ways to prevent the spreading of germs and communicable diseases.

Recognize potentially harmful substances.

Identify appropriate ways to express and deal with emotions and feelings.

Identify and describe situations that could cause injury.

Identify the importance of respecting the personal space and boundaries of others.

Identify how family, peers, and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices.

Explain how media and technology may influence health-related behaviors.

Identify internal factors that affect personal health.

List the roles and responsibilities of professionals who assist with enhancing health and well-being.

Identify specific health professionals in the school and community.

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

Discuss ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

Identify and describe opportunities to enhance personal health and well-being.

Identify people who can help solve problems and make decisions.

Identify actions needed to achieve a short-term personal health goal.

Identify individuals other than your family who can assist you in achieving health goals.

Practice behaviors to enhance personal health and wellness.

Model behaviors that reduce health risks.

Seek assistance or make requests to promote personal health and well-being.

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Describe healthy behaviors that promote personal health, wellness, and disease prevention.

Describe why avoiding potentially harmful substances is a healthy practice.

Recognize potentially harmful situations, behaviors, and environments.

Recognize the relationship between feelings and behavior and engage in activities that promote mental and emotional health.

Identify proper nutrition that provides energy to help the body grow and develop.

Identify the characteristics of bullying and develop skills to respond appropriately.

Understand proper names for all body parts and identify healthy and appropriate boundaries around physical touch.

Discuss how the family, peers, and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being.

Discuss how the media and technology can impact health behaviors.

Compare the difference between internal and external factors that affect personal health and well-being.

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of health professionals in the school and community who can assist with enhancing health.

Identify and explain health-promoting products.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Demonstrate and apply communication skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to identify verbal and nonverbal communication.

Identify situations that need a health-related decision.

Identify how family, peers, or media influence a health-related decision.

Explain the potential positive and negative outcomes of health-related decisions.

Describe when help is needed to make a healthy decision.

Identify and describe opportunities to enhance personal health and well-being.

Identify and describe people who can help assist in problem-solving and decision making.

Identify a personal health goal.

Implement actions to achieve a short-term personal health goal.

Discuss and apply personal health behaviors to achieve goals.

Identify individuals who can assist in helping achieve a personal health goal.

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

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Advocate for health and wellness with family and community.

Role model and encourage peers to make positive choices.

Identify situations when professional health care or emergency help for self or others is needed.

Identify and apply healthy eating habits.

Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways.

Distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances.

Identify behaviors that show respect for themselves and others.

Identify appropriate and inappropriate touches and how to disclose to a trusted adult.

Discuss how family and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being.

Identify how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Identify consumer influences.

Identify the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

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

Discuss and demonstrate how speaking and listening skills can be used to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Recognize the causes of conflicts and apply effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts.

Identify and discuss health-related situations.

Discuss situations when support is needed when making a health-related decision.

Discuss options and healthy choices when making decisions.

Indicate the possible consequences of each choice when making a health-related decision.

Select a personal long-term health goal and determine the actions needed to achieve the goal

Identify resources and individuals needed to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Identify practices to reduce or prevent health risks.

Demonstrate healthy practices.

Commit to practicing healthy behaviors.

Share accurate information about a health issue.

Encourage others to make positive health choices.

Recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention.

Describe basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity.

Describe basic health concepts of mental and emotional well-being.

Describe basic health concepts of personal hygiene and safety.

Distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances.

Identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek professional health care or emergency help for themselves or others.

Predict the short and long-term effects of healthy choices on the multiple dimensions of health.

Describe ways to promote a safe and healthy community environment.

Recognize times it might be important to seek professional health care or emergency help for self or others.

Examine the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors.

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

Compare how technology and media can influence personal health.

Identify the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

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

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

Describe the services that school, family, and community provide concerning personal health.

Explain a situation that may require a thoughtful health-related decision.

Describe the possible consequences of an unhealthy decision and healthy alternatives when making a health-related decision.

Determine when or if help is needed to make a health-related decision.

Determine a healthy choice when making a decision.

Identify a personal health goal.

Develop an action plan for a health goal.

Discuss whether the goal was achieved.

Demonstrate a healthy behavior to improve personal health and wellness.

Demonstrate behaviors to reduce health risks.

Provide valid health information about a health issue.

Advocate for positive health choices.

Recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention.

Describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity.

Describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being.

Describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety.

Distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances.

Identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others.

Distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances.

Identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence.

Evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions.

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

Explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Identify the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

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

Assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts.

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others.

Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision.

List healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem.

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

Analyze when assistance is needed in 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 and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Practice responsible personal health choices.

Demonstrate a variety of healthy choices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health.

Model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others.

Review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue.

Advocate for positive health choices.

Compare how healthy behaviors and risk practices impact personal health.

Identify the interrelationships of emotional and social health in adolescence.

Examine how one’s surroundings impact personal health and well-being.

Practice ways to reduce or prevent injuries.

Identify how health care can promote personal health and well-being.

Identify the benefits of practicing healthy behaviors.

Describe the consequences of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

Explain the importance of choosing healthy foods and beverages.

Describe why household products are harmful if ingested or inhaled.

Differentiate short and long-term effects of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drug use, including social and legal implications.

Describe positive alternatives to using alcohol and other drugs.

Analyze the characteristics of healthy relationships.

Describe the short and long-term effects of engaging in risky behaviors. See O.C.G.A 20-2-143.

Describe the influences on adolescence.

Identify the influence of various cultures on health beliefs and practices.

Explain how peers influence healthy behaviors.

Identify how the community can impact personal health practices and behaviors.

Illustrate how media messages influence health behaviors.

Explain the influence of technology on family health.

Explain the harmful effects of explicit media, messaging, and images on self-esteem body image, and relationships.

Identify norms that influence health behaviors.

Compare how choices influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Identify how school and public health policies can influence health promotion.

Determine and examine the validity of health information, products, and services to prevent and detect health problems.

Identify valid health information from home, school, and community that enhances health.

Determine the accessibility of products that enhance and promote health.

Describe circumstances that may require professional health services and resources.

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance personal health and well-being.

Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.

Analyze influences in making an unhealthy or healthy choice.

Identify situations that may require a decision-making process.

Distinguish whether the individual should make decisions or if help should be sought.

Choose between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related situations.

Study the potential short-term consequences of healthy and unhealthy alternatives on self and others.

Decide which alternatives are healthy when making a decision.

Predict the outcomes of a health-related decision.

Assess personal health practices.

Choose a personal health practice with a goal for adoption.

Develop a plan to achieve a personal health goal.

Explain how personal health goals can vary with changing priorities.

Identify the importance of accepting responsibility for personal health behaviors.

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

Model practices to avoid or reduce health risks to self and/or others.

Investigate a health position or practice and support it with valid information.

Identify strategies that will support others in positive choices regarding their health.

Collaborate with others to advocate for healthy lifestyles and/or choices.

Identify the methods in which health messages can be altered to appeal to different age groups.