Louisiana K–6 health standards

Identify major body parts (e.g., stomach, ears, eyes).

List personal health behaviors (e.g., hand washing, teeth brushing).

Name a variety of healthy foods.

Explain why a variety of foods are necessary for good health.

Describe why a healthy breakfast is important.

Identify healthy snacks and beverages.

List ways to be physically active.

Explain the importance of sleep and rest.

Describe one’s own physical characteristics.

Review similarities and differences between self and others.

State characteristics that make each individual unique.

Identify a variety of emotions (e.g., angry vs. sad, happy vs. excited).

Identify appropriate ways to express emotion.

List common illnesses and diseases (e.g., colds, flu, and asthma).

Practice ways to prevent diseases and other health problems.

Describe germs and why they can be harmful.

Review effective dental and personal hygiene practices.

Explain why medicines are used for illnesses and diseases such as asthma.

Recognize that medicines should only be taken with adult supervision.

Describe how to get on and off a school bus safely.

Explain how rules at home and school can help keep one safe.

Identify ways injuries can be prevented (e.g., seatbelt, playground, street, water).

Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touch.

State roles and responsibilities of family members.

List ways family can help promote well-being.

Review that everyone has unique talents and interests they can share.

Identify how friends can affect health behaviors.

State how schools promote good health.

Discuss the importance of respect and getting along with others.

List examples of media (e.g., television, radio, internet, signs/billboards, advertisements).

Recognize that not all products advertised or sold are healthy choices.

Identify characteristics of a trusted adult at home, school or in the community.

List trusted adults who can help in an emergency situation.

Identify people who are sources of valid health information and health- promoting products and services (e.g., trusted adults, doctor, police, teacher).

Discuss how to get help from trusted adults in a health emergency (e.g., dial 911, firefighters, police, teachers, family).

Recognize how television programs, websites and magazines/books influence one’s health choices.

Speak clearly and directly to express needs and emotions.

Review verbal and non-verbal forms of communication.

Use active listening skills in everyday situations.

Recognize that others have needs and feelings.

Use effective communication (I-messages) to communicate emotions and needs.

Use words to identify emotions and communicate needs.

Describe and practice situations when it is appropriate to use “please,” “thank you,” “excuse me,” and “I’m sorry.”

Tell when to seek help from a trusted adult (e.g., fire, if threatened, crossing the street).

Discuss how to make healthy decisions (choices).

Demonstrate making simple decisions (choices).

Recognize choices or decisions that could affect one’s health.

List a range of choices that could affect one’s health (e.g., healthy foods – grow strong, taking medicines – get well, going to bed on time – feel good in the morning).

Distinguish between decisions that can be made on one’s own and decisions that require the help of a trusted adult.

Recognize that other people can influence choices.

Review that it is all right to say no to choices that are unsafe or unhealthy.

Describe what a goal is.

List healthy goals (e.g., to eat more fruit and veggies, to exercise daily, to brush teeth, to wash hands).

Identify ways that parents and trusted adults can help meet a goal.

Create and work toward a simple health enhancing goal (to choose healthy snacks daily, to exercise daily, to play safely and to remain injury free on playground).

Identify healthy practices in one’s daily routine (e.g., nutrition, fitness, safety, conflict resolution).

Illustrate how healthful behavior choices can help maintain health.

Describe how following rules can help keep one safe.

Practice using effective communication skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Review examples of advocacy.

Tell others how to be healthy.

Practice making healthy choices.

Identify ways to encourage others to make positive health choices.

Describe positive ways to show care, consideration and concern for others.

Describe the relationship between personal health behaviors and individual well-being.

Explain why sleep and rest are important for growth and good health.

Identify ways injuries can be prevented.

Explain the relationship between healthy eating and daily exercise.

Report how personal decisions impact one’s safety.

Describe a healthy relationship.

Discuss personal hygiene.

Recognize the difference between physical and emotional health.

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

List ways to eat healthy and be physically active every day.

Identify stress makers and stress helpers.

Identify ways to keep germs from spreading.

Recognize when hand-washing is necessary.

Discuss how behaviors can reduce the spread of some diseases.

Review the role of health care providers in diagnosing and treating diseases.

Describe how to keep food safe to eat.

State risky behaviors and potentially harmful consequences.

Identify safety rules for home, school and community (e.g., fire, falls, burns, medications/poisons, seat belts, street crossing, sun, bike, weapons).

Identify strategies for avoiding second-hand smoke.

Review that everyone has the right to tell others not to touch his or her body.

Describe the characteristics of a bully and how to avoid conflict.

List family habits that relate to one’s health practices.

Identify how family can influence one’s personal health.

Define culture and discuss how it impacts the health-impacting choices we make.

Review cultural influences on food choices and physical activity.

Discuss the influence of school on health behaviors.

Explain how advertisements can influence food choices and other behaviors related to health.

Identify the range of health care workers who can promote healthful practices.

Locate websites that provide accurate health information.

List where to find health resources in one’s community.

Explain how television programs, movies, websites or magazines/books affect health-related choices.

Identify the characteristics of a good communicator.

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

Demonstrate how to express a range of emotions using words, expressions and body language.

Identify ways to treat others kindly.

Use “I” messages in communicating to avoid a conflict.

Recognize the steps in making a decision.

Identify decisions one makes every day.

Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy decisions.

Review when help is needed to make healthy decisions.

Recognize choices or decisions that could affect family health.

Explain a range of personal or family choices and how they enhance health.

Identify health-related decisions made daily.

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy choices.

Practice refusal skills that help avoid unhealthy or unsafe situations.

Practice writing a goal.

Describe how setting and reaching a goal can enhance health.

Plan and apply a simple health-enhancing goal related to physical health.

Plan and apply a simple health-enhancing goal related to social/emotional health (e.g., to be a good friend, to get along/resolve conflict peacefully, to help others daily).

Practice choosing a variety of healthy snacks.

Identify physical activities that one can do daily.

Discuss the importance of following rules at home and school.

Practice relaxation techniques to reduce stress effects on the body.

List ways to reduce or prevent injuries while participating in a variety of activities.

Describe how personal choices can affect one’s health (e.g., eating fatty foods = obesity or diabetes; not brushing teeth = tooth decay; tobacco = lung/heart disease).

Demonstrate the ability to use self-control when angry.

Explain what it means to be an advocate.

Report how one can advocate for healthy behaviors (e.g., asking parents to buy more fruit, asking friends to exercise with them).

Practice using good communication skills to promote the health of others.

Explain how making healthy choices makes one feel better (e.g., eating healthy gives me energy, exercising makes me sleep better, crossing at the corner helps keep me safe).

Review how one can encourage family and friends to make healthier choices.

Describe what it means to be healthy.

Compare healthy and unhealthy behaviors and how they affect one’s health (e.g., disease prevention, healthy eating, fitness, safety).

Identify healthy behaviors one can practice.

List ways to prevent harmful effects of the sun.

Create an individual fitness diary to record physical activity each day (time of day, duration, activity).

Review MyPyramid and identify food groups.

Identify each of the dimensions of health.

Define the concepts of self-image and self-esteem.

Analyze characteristics that impact self-image.

Report the benefits of healthy relationships among family and friends.

Explain ways to reduce or manage stress (e.g., study early for tests, go to bed on time).

Identify negative influences on one’s environment and how to avoid them.

Define communicable and non-communicable diseases.

List communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Describe healthy behaviors to prevent the spread of germs (e.g., immunizations, vitamins, sanitary food practices, hand washing).

Describe how risky behaviors can affect one’s personal health.

Identify safety hazards at home, school and in the community.

Apply fire safety rules to various situations.

Explain the importance of using safety belts and car booster seats.

Demonstrate basic traffic safety rules for pedestrians and bicyclists (include crossing a street safely, crossing an intersection, parking lot

Describe eating behaviors that contribute to maintaining healthy weight.

Report how family health practices can influence personal health practices.

Explain how family can influence food choices.

Describe activities an individual’s family can do to increase physical activity.

Document how cultural influences impact one’s daily life.

Identify how culture affects one’s individual choices and behaviors.

Relate how cultural influences impact one’s health.

Identify television, print or web ads that may influence health.

Summarize how media can influence choices related to health (positively or negatively).

Identify resources for health information in one’s home, community and school.

Select websites and other media that provide valid health information.

Identify trusted adults who can help one read and follow directions on medicine labels.

Demonstrate how to dial 911 or other emergency numbers and provide

Review the variety of health-related information available in the media (television, radio, web).

Question how media messages influence one’s health behaviors and the choice of products/services.

Define the steps to effective communication (e.g., listening, eye contact, body language).

Practice using effective communication skills with peers.

Demonstrate verbal and non-verbal ways to communicate clearly.

Practice expressing feelings in a positive, non-confrontational way.

Review steps in the decision-making process.

Conclude that every decision has a consequence that may affect one’s health.

Identify situations that could put one’s health or safety at risk.

Describe safe places to go in order to avoid danger.

Use a decision-making model.

Analyze the outcome of using a decision-making model.

Restate how using a decision-making model can improve one’s health and safety.

Practice skills to avoid unhealthy behaviors.

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid unhealthy or unsafe situations.

Analyze how others have set and reached personal goals (e.g., Olympic athletes set goal, work toward goal, reach Olympics).

Create a list of personal health goals.

Describe how the accomplishment of a personal goal enhances one’s health.

Demonstrate ways to show respect, consideration and caring for classmates.

Demonstrate pride in personal qualities and accomplishments (e.g., self-esteem).

Examine how one’s personal choices can positively impact health.

Develop a plan to eat a variety of nutritious foods each day.

Demonstrate ways to be physically active.

Examine personal choices that can affect one’s health.

Demonstrate strategies to avoid risks (e.g., social/emotional; violence; intentional/unintentional injury).

Identify behavior choices that can reduce health risks (e.g., physical activity, nutrition, fitness, avoiding tobacco).

Dramatize advocating for a healthy behavior.

Demonstrate ways to support friends and family who are trying to maintain or improve healthy practices.

Illustrate how one can communicate what one has learned about health to others (e.g., family, friends, peers).

Demonstrate the ability to influence health and safety practices of family members (e.g., smoking cessation).

Explain the benefits of positive health choices to family and friends.

Define physical, emotional and social health.

Describe the influence of the components of health on each other.

Identify personal health behaviors (e.g., good nutrition, brushing teeth, washing hands, exercise).

Explain how personal health behaviors affect individual well being.

Identify serving sizes and their relationship to healthy eating.

Describe the connection between food consumption and energy expenditure.

List ways to prevent injuries at home, school, and in the community.

Identify methods of personal hygiene to prevent common health problems (e.g., washing hands, covering mouth when coughing).

Identify safe pedestrian behaviors and how they promote health.

List school safety rules (e.g., playground, halls, lunch room, etc.) and how they promote health.

Describe public transportation safety rules (e.g., seatbelts, child car seats, road signs and how they promote health).

Recognize when and how to seek help from a trusted adult.

Demonstrate the ability to access important phone numbers to get help in emergencies.

Illustrate through role play the ability to seek help when sick or hurt.

List different cultural traditions in the community.

Identify cultural influences on nutrition and physical activity.

Identify healthy and unhealthy practices and behaviors in families (e.g., tobacco use, alcohol use, overeating).

Discuss the ability to make healthy choices based on personal preferences.

Define peer pressure.

Describe how peers can influence one’s health choices (e.g., food, tobacco, alcohol, drugs).

Identify school and community support staff (e.g., school nurse, counselor, social worker, nutritionist).

Explain the role of school and community support staff.

Identify health care facilities in the community and their functions.

List different media types (e.g., TV, newspaper, billboards).

Discuss how and why media attempt to influence personal thoughts, feelings, and health choices.

Identify strategies to make positive health choices despite the influence of media.

Identify different types of technology (e.g., TV, computer, video games).

Discuss how these technology sources positively and negatively impact personal health.

List ways to make positive health choices when using technology.

Recognize what makes something valid and invalid as it relates to health.

Identify health websites.

Examine sources of valid health information from the home, such as parents.

Examine health information that can be obtained from school personnel (e.g., school nurse, teacher).

Research sources of valid health information from the community (e.g., library, family health care provider).

Identify verbal and non-verbal communication skills that enhance health.

Demonstrate how verbal and non-verbal communication skills are used to enhance health.

Identify examples of dangerous or risky behaviors that might lead to injuries.

Create a list of risky health behaviors.

Identify ways to say “no” to risky health behaviors.

Apply refusal skills to given situations through activities such as role play.

Discuss different kinds of conflict.

List violent and non-violent responses to conflict.

Explain benefits of using non-violence to resolve conflicts.

List ways to ask for help in uncomfortable situations.

Identify adults in the school and community who can provide personal health guidance.

Identify health-related situations that require a thoughtful decision.

Recognize when assistance is needed when making health-related decisions.

List options in dealing with health-related issues or problems.

Create a personal goal to improve a personal health practice (e.g., exercise daily, eat fruits/veggies daily).

Examine the steps completed in reaching a personal health goal (journal listing of steps over time).

Report to the class a personal health goal and progress toward achieving that goal.

List actions or habits that are healthy.

List actions or habits that are harmful or unhealthy.

Demonstrate ways to avoid engaging in risky behaviors associated with childhood injuries and health problems.

Describe how a healthy behavior can be maintained.

Describe how an unhealthy behavior could be avoided or eliminated.

Practice and log the selection of healthful foods and being physically active.

Demonstrate how to prepare a meal or snack using sanitary food preparation.

Demonstrate being a role-model who practices healthy behaviors.

Explain the importance of practicing positive health behaviors with your peers.

Describe the interrelationship of, emotional, social, and physical health during childhood.

Analyze the differences between healthy and unhealthy personal behaviors.

Explore the importance of drinking water and eating fiber to maintain a healthy digestive system.

Identify the relationship of calcium-rich foods, vitamin D, and weight-bearing physical activity to strong bones.

Identify nutrient-dense foods and high calorie foods.

Identify health problems or injuries that can be prevented or treated early.

Explain how injuries and health problems can be prevented or treated.

Recognize how risky behaviors are related to childhood injuries and health problems.

List ways to promote safe routes to school (e.g., sidewalks, crossing guards).

Explain the importance of healthy food choices at school and at home.

Describe how communicable and non-communicable diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer, heart disease) impact the overall health of the community.

Identify when it is important to seek health care for communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Discuss different cultural traditions in the community and how they relate to health.

Identify the impact of cultural influences on the community’s health practices and behaviors.

Recognize that citizens of other countries may not have access to quality health care.

List the impact that families have on one’s personal health (e.g., tobacco use, alcohol use, overeating).

Identify family barriers one may face in making healthy choices.

Identify ways to avoid negative peer pressure and practice positive health behaviors.

Model positive peer leadership skills that lead to good health behaviors.

Identify school and community support groups (e.g., peer leadership teams, Boy/Girl Scouts).

List how support groups influence one’s personal health practices and behaviors.

List strategies to create a media PSA that impacts making positive health choices.

Identify the negative impact media may have on personal health choices.

Identify the positive and negative impacts that technology can have on making health choices.

List ways that technology can be used to influence positive health choices.

Identify valid sources of health information.

List the importance in securing correct health information as it relates to personal health.

Define health “misinformation.”

Identify ways to best utilize those resources identified in the home, school, and the community.

Identify key concepts of nutrition food labels.

Determine sugar and fat content of selected foods and beverages.

Identify verbal and nonverbal communication skills that can be used to positively influence others in situations that impact health.

Explain how to apply refusal skills to a health risk situation.

Demonstrate through role play how using good refusal skills can avoid or reduce risky health behaviors.

Demonstrate through role play effective conflict resolution strategies.

Discuss strategies to prevent bullying.

Identify situations where personal health assistance may be required.

Demonstrate how to seek personal health assistance from a trusted adult.

List the potential short-term and long-term outcomes that can occur when making a health-related decision.

Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

Use MyPyramid to evaluate daily food choices in meeting nutrition requirements.

Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Monitor personal progress toward goals that address healthy eating and physical activity.

Discuss how healthy and unhealthy habits influence our health.

Demonstrate a positive health behavior.

Develop a daily log of individual caloric intake and energy expenditure.

List barriers that may delay or impede an individual from making good personal health choices.

Based upon current research-based guidelines, select healthy snacks.

Journal about individual behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

List the importance of having school health providers.

Identify barriers to accessing community and school health providers.

Discuss the impact, on others, of not making positive health choices.

List the behaviors that influence physical, emotional, and social health.

Describe the consequences of the behaviors that influence physical, emotional, and social health.

List the consequences of negative health choices (e.g., drinking, smoking).

Examine the consequences of good and bad health choices on one’s personal health.

Recognize the responsibility to reduce risk of injury to self and to others.

List possible hazards of physical activity and how to prevent injuries.

Recognize the responsibility to reduce health risk (e.g., hygiene, exercise, healthy eating).

Assess the school environment to identify things that contribute to positive health and safety.

Identify different areas of healthcare and how to access them.

Recognize the signs of injury that require medical attention in self and in others (e.g., lack of consciousness, broken bones, bleeding, and heat exposure).

Examine personal cultural practices and how they impact personal health decisions.

Investigate the quality of healthcare in a foreign country and how it compares to the United States.

Develop a family plan to maintain and improve health practices (journal).

Describe instances when one may have to overcome the influence of others to maintain good health.

Report on a local community support group and how it is influencing health in the community.

Explore the effects of the environment on food choices.

Identify positive influences that the media can have on health.

Analyze specific media/advertisements regarding the health message they convey.

Analyze specific technologies regarding the health messages they convey.

Investigate how technology can promote positive health behaviors (e.g., pedometers, Wii fit).

Assess a health product or service using valid sources of health information.

Report on how resources from home, school and the community are used to impact personal and family health.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate a health message in a verbal and non-verbal manner.

Create and share a scenario that utilizes refusal skills to avoid engaging in risky behaviors.

Differentiate between assertive and aggressive behavior.

Role play different scenarios identifying assertive and aggressive behavior and the impact of that behavior in conflict situations.

Identify personal and family experiences where access to care positively or negatively impacted health.

Describe how personal health care decisions and assistance can be impacted by personal experiences.

Use communication skills to effectively deal with influences from peers and media regarding food choices and physical activity.