Montana K–6 health standards

Identifying healthy and unhealthy behaviors;

Identifying characteristics of physical, mental, and emotional health;

Identifying characteristics of family and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Identifying ways germs are spread;

Showing ways to prevent the spread of germs;

Identifying environmental factors that can affect health;

Identifying safety practices at school and in the community;

Identifying common childhood injuries;

Giving examples of health care; and

Identifying body parts and their function.

Identifying family practices that promote health; and

Identifying healthy practices at school.

Identifying adults who help promote health; and

Identifying school and community health and safety resources.

Identifying feelings and emotions;

Understanding that listening is a respectful and caring behavior;

Using refusal skills in risky situations;

Identifying risky situations; and

Identifying dangerous situations.

Giving examples of safe and healthy decisions;

Identifying persons who can assist with safety and health-related decisions;

Identifying ways to solve safety and health-related issues or problems;

Identifying possible consequences of choices when making safety and health-related decisions.

Identifying healthy habits; and

Identifying ways family members model healthy behaviors.

Identifying healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Identifying personal health practices and behaviors; and

Identifying behaviors that are harmful or risky to health.

Identifying ways to ask others to assist in promoting health;

Identifying positive health choices that can be made by peers and self;

Identifying health-related messages.

Describing healthy behaviors;

Giving examples of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Identifying ways to prevent the spread of germs;

Identifying environmental factors that can affect health;

Identifying ways to be safe and healthy at school and in the community;

Identifying common childhood injuries and their treatment;

Identifying reasons for seeing a health care professional; and

Identifying basic body systems such as circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.

Describing ways a family practices health promotion;

Identifying ways that peers influence behavior;

Identifying ways in which schools promote personal health practices and behaviors; and

Identifying examples from different media sources that influence health.

Describing ways adults can help promote health; and

Describing school and community health and safety resources.

Showing how to share feelings in a healthy way;

Describing ways listening is a respectful and caring behavior;

Describing and demonstrating how to use a variety of refusal skills; and

Describing how to get help in a dangerous situation.

Identifying steps in making safe and healthy decisions;

Identifying examples of responsible safety and health-related decisions;

Identifying ways to solve safety and health-related issues or problems;

Identifying possible consequences of choices when making safety and health-related decisions.

Explaining types of healthy habits; and

Identifying a goal and who can help achieve that goal.

Identifying examples of healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Telling ways to maintain or improve personal health behaviors; and

Explaining harmful or risky behaviors to health.

Expressing how to ask others to assist in promoting health;

Showing how peers can make positive health choices; and

Listing a variety of health-related messages.

Identifying and explaining how health behaviors affect personal health;

Recognizing that there are multiple dimensions of health, such as physical, mental, and emotional, as well as family and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Describing some ways to prevent childhood communicable diseases;

Describing common environmental factors that can affect health;

Giving examples of how to be safe at school and in the community;

Identifying ways to prevent and treat common childhood injuries;

Describing why it is important to seek health care; and

Identifying basic body systems and their function such as the circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.

Identifying how family and culture influence personal health practices and behaviors;

Identifying ways that peers influence behavior;

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

Describing how the media can influence health behaviors; and

Giving examples of school or community policies that promote health and safety.

Identifying trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health;

Identifying ways to locate school and community health and safety resources.

Identifying healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings;

Using listening skills to enhance health;

Exhibiting ways to respond in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation; and

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

Identifying situations when a safety and health-related decision is needed;

Differentiating between situations when a safety and health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed;

Describing ways to solve safety and health-related issues or problems;

Describing possible consequences of choices when making safety and health-related decisions.

Identifying short-term personal health goals and taking action towards achieving goals; and

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

Exhibiting healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Exhibiting healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health; and

Discussing behaviors that avoid or reduce health risk.

Making requests to promote health;

Identifying ways to encourage others to make positive health choices; and

Describing health messages and communication techniques.

Identifying links between healthy choices and personal health;

Defining life skills that improve health and wellness;

Using goal-setting to practice healthy behaviors;

Describing various characteristics of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Explaining the difference between childhood communicable and noncommunicable diseases;

Identifying the potential sources of environmental factors that affect health;

Describing how health can be affected by school and community environments;

Identifying common childhood health problems;

Identifying situations that require health care; and

Identifying body systems and their function including circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.

Describing ways family and culture influence personal health practices and behavior;

Describing ways that peers influence behavior;

Explaining ways the school can support personal health practices and behaviors;

Discussing ways the media can influence thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors;

Identifying types of technology that influence personal health; and

Describing ways that school and community policies promote health and safety.

Giving examples of valid health information, products, and services; and

Identifying resources available at home, school, tribe, and community that provide valid health information.

Expressing ways to show respect for self and others, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Identifying verbal and nonverbal refusal skills;

Recognizing conflict and applying nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict; and

Discussing situations when it is necessary to seek assistance for the health and safety of self and others.

Identifying routine safety and health-related situations;

Discussing situations when support is needed in making safety and health-related decisions;

Discussing various options to safety and health-related issues or problems;

Discussing possible consequences of choices when making safety and health-related decisions; and

Identifying outcomes for various safety, healthy, and unhealthy decisions.

Describing ways to set personal health goals; and

Explaining how friends, adults, and resources help in achieving a personal health goal.

Describing practices of healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Discussing reasons for responsible personal health behaviors; and

Identifying healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Sharing accurate information about a health issue;

Encouraging peers to make positive health choices; and

Discussing health-related messages and communication techniques.

Identifying life skills that improve health and wellness;

Discussing healthy and unhealthy behaviors and their effect on health;

Identifying personal health enhancing strategies that encompass substance abuse prevention, nutrition, exercise, injury and disease prevention, and stress management, including traditional and contemporary strategies from American Indian cultures;

Describing risky behaviors and their potential consequences;

Discussing various characteristics of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Describing how universal precautions and other hygienic practices reduce the risk for contracting disease;

Describing the potential sources of environmental factors that affect health;

Discussing practices for safe school and community environments;

Describing common childhood health problems and potential treatments;

Describing when it is important to seek health care; and

Discussing the structure and function of each of the following major systems: circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.

Explaining ways family and culture influence personal health practices and behaviors;

Discussing ways that peers influence behavior;

Identifying how the school, tribe, and community can support personal health practices and behaviors;

Discussing why the media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors;

Identifying ways technology can influence personal health; and

Discussing ways that school and community policies promote health, safety, and disease prevention.

Identifying qualities of valid health information, products, and services; and

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

Demonstrating ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect of self and others, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Identifying reasons to use refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks;

Identifying strategies to control angry feelings; and

Describing reasons for seeking assistance to enhance the health and safety of self and others.

Discussing options of what to do in potential safety and health-risk situations;

Identifying situations when assistance is needed to make safety and health-related decisions;

Identifying positive alternatives to resolving safety and health-related issues or problems;

Explaining possible consequences of health-related decisions; and

Creating a list of positive and negative outcomes related to various safety and health-related decisions.

Discussing reasons for setting personal health goals; and

Discussing personal health goal-setting and the resources that can assist in achieving goals.

Discussing practices of healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Identifying responsible personal health behaviors;

Explaining personal health practices and behaviors that maintain or improve personal health; and

Discussing reasons for healthy behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Discussing accurate information about a health issue;

Discussing ways that encourage others to make positive health choices; and

Comparing and contrasting health messages and communication techniques.

Explaining the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health;

Describing personal health enhancing strategies that encompass substance abuse prevention, nutrition, exercise, injury and disease prevention and stress management, including traditional and contemporary strategies from American Indian cultures;

Identifying potential consequences of engaging in risky behaviors;

Identifying examples of physical, mental, emotional, family and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Explaining practices used to prevent or reduce the risk of spreading or contracting communicable diseases;

Discussing ways environmental factors affect health;

Describing ways in which safe and healthy school and community environments can promote personal health;

Describing ways to prevent and treat common childhood injuries and health problems;

Giving examples of health care and their benefits, including the unique issues regarding American Indians and health care benefits; and

Examining how family and culture influence personal health practices and behaviors;

Identifying how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors;

Describing how the school, tribe, and community can support personal health practices and behaviors;

Explaining how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors;

Discussing ways that technology can influence personal health; and

Explaining how school, public, and tribal health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Identifying characteristics of valid health information, products, and services; and

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

Using effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Using refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks;

Using nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict; and

Discussing how to ask for assistance to enhance the health and safety of self and others.

Identifying health-related situations that might require thoughtful decisions;

Analyzing when assistance is needed in making safety and health-related decisions;

Comparing and contrasting healthy options to safety and health-related issues or problems;

Predicting the potential outcomes of options when making safety and health-related decisions; and

Describing the outcomes of safety and health-related decisions.

Setting a personal health goal and tracking progress toward its achievement; and

Identifying resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Explaining benefits of healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Practicing responsible personal health behaviors;

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

Using a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.

Expressing opinions and giving accurate information about health issues;

Practicing and rationalizing reasons for positive health choices; and

Evaluating various health messages and communication techniques.

Discussing the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health;

Describing the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors;

Analyzing the potential consequences of engaging in risky behaviors;

Identifying characteristics of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Explaining practices used to prevent or reduce the risk of spreading or contracting communicable diseases;

Discussing ways environmental factors affect health;

Analyzing ways in which safe and healthy school and community environments can promote personal health;

Describing ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems;

Explaining how appropriate health care can promote personal health, including the unique issues regarding American Indians and health care benefits;

Defining human body systems, their function, and their interrelationship with one another; and

Explaining how family and culture influence the health of adolescents;

Explaining how the perception of societal norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors;

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

Describing how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors;

Explaining how the school, tribe, and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors;

Explaining how messages from media influence health behaviors;

Explaining the influence of technology on personal and family health; and

Comparing and contrasting how school, public, and tribal health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

Analyzing the validity of health information, products, and services;

Accessing valid health information from home, school, tribe, and community;

Determining the accessibility of products that enhance health; and

Describing situations that may require professional health services.

Applying effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Using refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks;

Using effective conflict management or resolution strategies; and

Discussing how to ask for assistance to enhance the health and safety of self and others.

Identifying circumstances that can help or hinder safe and healthy decision making;

Determining when safety and health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process;

Determining when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate;

Distinguishing between safe, healthy, and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems;

Predicting the potential short-term and long-term impact of health and safety related options on self and others; and

Analyzing the outcomes of safety and health-related decisions.

Developing a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve personal health practices;

Assessing personal health practices;

Applying strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal; and

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

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

Explaining the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors; and

Describing behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.

Stating a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information;

Describing how to influence and support others to make positive health choices;

Working cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, tribes, and schools; and

Identifying ways in which health-related messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences.