Indiana K–6 health standards

Indiana writes its own health standards. They are published as 2023 Indiana Academic Standards: Health & Wellness, adopted 2023 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

2023 Indiana Academic Standards for Health & Wellness, adopted 2023-06-07. Indiana organises them as eight standards mirroring the National Health Education Standards, banded K-2 / 3-5 / 6-8.

Framework: 2023 Indiana Academic Standards: Health & Wellness
Adopted: 2023
Source last checked: July 24, 2026

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126 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

K-2.1.1K–2
Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health.
K-2.1.2K–2
Recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health (mental/emotional, intellectual, physical, environmental, and social health).
K-2.1.3K–2
Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases.
K-2.1.4K–2
List ways to prevent common childhood injuries.
K-2.1.5K–2
Describe why it is important to have regular medical checkups.
K-2.2.1K–2
Identify how family and culture influence personal health practices and behaviors.
K-2.2.2K–2
Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors.
K-2.2.3K–2
Describe how peers, technology, and media can influence health practices and behaviors.
K-2.3.1K–2
Identify trusted adults who can help enhance and support health.
K-2.3.2K–2
Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.
K-2.4.1K–2
Identify and demonstrate verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
K-2.4.2K–2
Practice listening skills to enhance health.
K-2.4.3K–2
Express needs, wants, and feelings in a healthy way.
K-2.4.4K–2
Model ways to treat people with kindness and respect.
K-2.4.5K–2
Describe ways to respond in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation.
K-2.4.6K–2
Explain situations where talking to a trusted adult is important.
K-2.4.7K–2
Identify and explain healthy strategies to manage and resolve conflict.
K-2.5.1K–2
Identify personal health decisions.
K-2.5.2K–2
Identify people or places where health information can be obtained.
K-2.6.1K–2
Identify the benefits of planning and setting personal health goals.
K-2.6.2K–2
Identify a realistic and personal health goal.
K-2.6.3K–2
Describe steps to achieve the personal health goal.
K-2.6.4K–2
Identify possible benefits and barriers to achieving the personal health goal.
K-2.6.5K–2
Take steps to achieve the personal health goal.
K-2.6.6K–2
Identify trusted adults that can help in achieving the personal health goal.
K-2.7.1K–2
Identify character traits and behaviors of a healthy and safe person.
K-2.7.2K–2
List a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce health and safety risks.
K-2.8.1K–2
List personal, family, school, or community health and safety concerns.
K-2.8.2K–2
Identify a health or safety issue that has personal relevance.
3-5.1.13–5
Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
3-5.1.23–5
Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health.
3-5.1.33–5
Explain ways in which school and community environments can promote personal health.
3-5.1.43–5
Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.
3-5.1.53–5
Recognize when it is important to seek health care.
3-5.2.13–5
Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors.
3-5.2.23–5
Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.
3-5.2.33–5
Explain how peers, the media, including social media, can influence thoughts, feelings and healthy behaviors.
3-5.2.43–5
Recognize how peers can influence health and unhealthy behaviors.
3-5.2.53–5
Identify the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.
3-5.2.63–5
Describe ways technology can influence personal health.
3-5.3.13–5
Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.
3-5.3.23–5
Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide health information and enhance health.
3-5.4.13–5
Formulate effective (assertive) verbal and nonverbal communication strategies.
3-5.4.23–5
Demonstrate the ability to actively listen to enhance health.
3-5.4.33–5
Explain healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
3-5.4.43–5
Determine ways to communicate kindness and respect for others.
3-5.4.53–5
Describe refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
3-5.4.63–5
Model how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.
3-5.4.73–5
Analyze strategies to prevent and manage conflict.
3-5.4.83–5
Recognize barriers to healthy communication.
3-5.5.13–5
Identify personal health decisions and influences.
3-5.5.23–5
Predict health risk of decisions to self and others.
3-5.5.33–5
Identify important steps to take when making a health related decision.
3-5.5.43–5
Describe how personal health decisions are connected to subsequent decisions.
3-5.5.53–5
Assume responsibility for personal health decisions.
3-5.6.13–5
Explain the benefits of planning and setting personal health goals.
3-5.6.23–5
Develop a personal health goal and a plan to achieve it.
3-5.6.33–5
Identify possible barriers to achieving the personal health goal.
3-5.6.43–5
Demonstrate how to achieve the personal health goal and express awareness of possible barriers in the plan.
3-5.6.53–5
Examine the impact of personal choices on the personal health goal.
3-5.6.63–5
Identify who can help in achieving the personal health goal.
3-5.6.73–5
Monitor and evaluate progress towards achieving the personal health goal.
3-5.7.13–5
Explain character traits and behaviors of a healthy and safe person.
3-5.7.23–5
Identify specific ways to avoid or reduce health and safety risks.
3-5.8.13–5
Identify personal, family, school, or community health and safety concerns.
3-5.8.23–5
Select a health or safety issue on which to take a stand.
3-5.8.33–5
Locate evidence about the health or safety issue.
3-5.8.43–5
Identify groups or others who advocate for the health issue.
3-5.8.53–5
Clarify personal beliefs regarding the health or safety issue.
3-5.8.63–5
Take a clear stand or position on health-enhancing behaviors.
3-5.8.73–5
Use a communication technique to inform others about a health or safety issue.
3-5.8.83–5
Identify an audience and adapt the health or safety message and communication technique to the characteristics of the individual or group.
6-8.1.16
Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
6-8.1.26
Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence.
6-8.1.36
Analyze how the environment impacts personal health.
6-8.1.46
Describe ways to reduce or prevent adolescent health problems and injuries.
6-8.1.56
Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.
6-8.1.66
Describe how family history can impact personal health.
6-8.1.76
Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors.
6-8.1.86
Examine the severity of injury and/or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.
6-8.2.16
Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.
6-8.2.26
Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors.
6-8.2.36
Analyze how messages from the media and social media influence health behaviors.
6-8.2.46
Describe how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
6-8.2.56
Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.
6-8.2.66
Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.
6-8.2.76
Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
6-8.2.86
Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.
6-8.2.96
Describe how some health risk behaviors can increase the likelihood of engaging in additional unhealthy behaviors.
6-8.2.106
Explain how school and public health policies can influence health practices and behaviors.
6-8.3.16
Investigate the validity of health information, products, and services.
6-8.3.26
Access valid health information from home, school, and community.
6-8.3.36
Describe situations that may require professional health services.
6-8.3.46
Locate valid and reliable health products and services that enhance health.
6-8.4.16
Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
6-8.4.26
Demonstrate active listening and response skills to enhance health.
6-8.4.36
Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
6-8.4.46
Practice ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect for self and others.
6-8.4.56
Demonstrate the ability to refuse or negotiate health risks in healthy ways.
6-8.4.66
Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.
6-8.4.76
Implement healthy strategies to prevent and manage conflict.
6-8.4.86
Formulate strategies for overcoming health-related communication barriers.
6-8.4.96
Examine the impact of communication on relationships.
6-8.5.16
Identify personal health decisions and differentiate between related internal and external influences.
6-8.5.26
Compile and assess available information to enhance health.
6-8.5.36
Personalize health risk of decisions to self and others.
6-8.5.46
Apply a decision making process to real-life health related situations.
6-8.5.56
Describe how personal health decisions may affect subsequent decisions.
6-8.5.66
Assume responsibility for personal health decisions.
6-8.6.16
Assess the benefits of planning and setting health goals.
6-8.6.26
Develop a personal health goal and a plan to achieve it.
6-8.6.36
Examine possible barriers to achieving the personal health goal.
6-8.6.46
Implement the plan to achieve the personal health goal and overcome possible barriers.
6-8.6.56
Consider the impact of decisions on the personal health goal.
6-8.6.66
Identify personal support systems and explain their importance in achieving the personal health goal.
6-8.6.76
Assess, reflect on, and adjust the plan to reach and maintain the personal health goal.
6-8.7.16
Conduct a personal assessment of health and safety knowledge and skills.
6-8.7.26
Describe the results of the personal assessment to identify personal health and safety strengths and needs.
6-8.7.36
Describe the results of the personal assessment to identify personal health and safety strengths and needs.
6-8.8.16
Conduct a personal, family, or community health or safety assessment and/or review data from an existing health assessment.
6-8.8.26
Analyze data to determine a priority health or safety issue on which to take a stand.
6-8.8.36
Research the health or safety issue
6-8.8.46
Identify agencies, organizations, or others who advocate for the health issue.
6-8.8.56
Demonstrate personal beliefs regarding the health or safety issue.
6-8.8.66
Use communication techniques to persuade the individual or group to support or act on the health or safety issue.
6-8.8.76
Identify an audience and adapt the health or safety message and communication technique to the characteristics of the individual or group.

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