Washington K–6 health standards

Recognize food groups.

Identify healthy and unhealthy foods.

Recognize importance of eating breakfast.

Identify daily recommended water intake.

Identify healthy and unhealthy beverages.

Describe body signals that tell a person when they are hungry and when they are full.

Understand that food choices affect health.

Identify safety hazards in the home.

Recognize bicycle, pedestrian, and transportation safety rules.

Identify fire, water, and sun safety rules.

Explain potential dangers of weapons.

Understand differences between emergency and nonemergency situations.

Identify people to ask for help in an at school.

Identify how to call 911 in emergency situations.

Understand definition of violence and abuse.

Understand boys and girls have some body parts that are the same and some that are different.

Understand living things grow and mature.

Understand there are many ways to express gender.

Recognize characteristics of a friend.

Recognize ways to express feelings.

Identify safe and unwanted touch.

Recognize people have the right to refuse giving or receiving unwanted touch.

Understand positive self-talk.

Identify characteristics of stress.

Identify different kinds of emotions.

Identify appropriate ways to express and manage emotions.

Recognize bullying and teasing.

Understand how medicines are used correctly.

Recognize differences between medicines and harmful drugs.

Understand importance of using medicines only with supervision of a trusted adult.

Recognize meaning of healthy and unhealthy.

Recognize basic hygiene practices.

Understand which elements of hygiene are essential to good health.

Understand germs can cause diseases.

Identify ways germs are transmitted.

Describe symptoms that occur when a person is sick.

Identify influences on food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Identify how family influences health practices and behaviors.

Identify trusted adults at home and school who administer prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines.

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Recognize ways to respond appropriately to bullying and teasing.

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

Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed.

Identify a personal health goal.

Match foods to food groups.

Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.

Understand importance of eating breakfast and lunch.

Recognize importance of drinking water.

Identify location of a Nutrition Facts label.

Understand food provides energy for the body.

Understand that food choices can contribute to a healthy body.

Identify safety hazards in the school.

Understand bicycle, pedestrian, and transportation safety rules.

Understand fire, water, and sun safety rules.

Explain importance of reporting to an adult when seeing or hearing about someone having a weapon.

Identify people to ask for help in emergency situations.

Explain and demonstrate how to call 911.

Recognize different types of violence and abuse.

Describe how living things grow and mature.

Explain that there are many ways to express gender.

Describe characteristics of a friend.

Identify healthy ways to express feelings.

Explain safe and unwanted touch.

Compare and contrast positive and negative self-talk.

Recognize positive and negative effects of stress.

Describe appropriate ways to express emotions.

Recognize importance of being sensitive to others' feelings.

Distinguish between bullying and teasing.

Discuss harmful effects of bullying and teasing.

Understand differences between safe and unwanted medicine use.

Identify different medicines and harmful drugs.

Understand tobacco and alcohol are harmful drugs.

Recognize effects of medicines used incorrectly.

Recognize importance of avoiding tobacco, secondhand smoke, and alcohol.

Understand what it means to be healthy.

Describe basic hygiene practices.

Describe ways to prevent the spread of germs.

Understand differences between communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Identify verbal and nonverbal communication.

Identify how family influences food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Describe how family and friends influence health practices and behaviors.

Identify where to locate trusted adults who can help promote health.

Describe how to tell a trusted adult about unwanted touch.

List ways to respond appropriately to bullying and teasing.

Recognize how to tell a trusted adult when offered non-prescribed medicine or harmful drugs.

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

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

Identify people who can support achievement of a personal health goal.

Identify basic stress management techniques.

Understand how to create a balanced meal.

Describe how each food group contributes to a healthy body.

Understand importance of eating meals throughout the day.

Identify benefits of drinking recommended intake of water.

Identify healthy eating patterns that provide energy and help the body grow and develop.

Understand that food choices can put individuals at risk for some health problems.

Identify safety hazards in the community.

Describe bicycle, pedestrian, and transportation safety rules.

Describe emergency, fire, and safety plans at home and at school.

Understand importance of avoiding weapons when unsupervised.

Recognize local emergency alert system.

Identify people who can help when someone is injured or suddenly ill.

Describe safety rules to follow in a disaster.

Describe different types of violence and abuse.

Identify healthy and unhealthy group characteristics.

Understand physical changes are part of growth and development.

Understand living things can reproduce.

Understand there is a range of gender roles and expression.

Understand importance of treating others with respect regarding gender expression.

Identify characteristics and benefits of healthy friendships.

Explain why unwanted touches should be reported to a trusted adult.

Identify personal strengths and challenges.

Recognize that practice develops confidence.

Understand body size, shape, and appearance are partially determined by genetics.

Identify causes of stress.

Describe stress management techniques.

Understand relationship between emotions and behaviors.

Define bystanders and interveners related to bullying.

Understand differences between prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, and harmful drugs.

Understand commonly used terms for tobacco and alcohol.

Understand effects of tobacco and alcohol.

Demonstrate refusal skills in different situations.

Describe what it means to be healthy.

Describe benefits of hygiene practices.

Understand bacteria and viruses are types of germs.

Describe differences between communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Identify how family, school, and community influence food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Understand how media influences health decisions and behaviors.

Identify purpose of a Nutrition Facts label.

Identify characteristics of valid health information and services.

Describe healthy ways for family members and friends to express feelings toward each other.

Demonstrate how to tell trusted adults about unwanted touch until action is taken.

Demonstrate appropriate ways to express emotions.

Describe how to use refusal skills when offered non-prescribed medicine or harmful drugs.

Demonstrate active listening skills to enhance communication.

Identify skills for assertive communication.

Recognize decision-making or refusal skills that could help when making food choices.

Identify healthy options for making a health-related decision.

Describe steps to achieve a personal health goal.

Identify strategies to intervene safely when someone is being bullied or teased.

Create a balanced meal.

Define nutrient.

List six nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water.

Explain importance of choosing healthy beverages.

Identify types of information on a Nutrition Facts label.

Understand importance of reading a Nutrition Facts label.

Distinguish between different energy sources: proteins, fats, carbohydrates.

Understand the relationship between caloric intake and expenditure.

Identify foods that are high in sodium and added sugars.

Describe benefits of limiting consumption of sodium and added sugars.

Describe benefits of consuming fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

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

Create emergency, fire, and safety plans for home.

Identify basic first aid steps.

Identify potentially violent situations.

Differentiate between gang, clique, and club.

Understand impact of violent behavior on others.

Understand humans can reproduce.

Explain that gender roles can vary considerably.

Identify trusted adults to communicate with about relationships.

Understand that a child is not at fault if an unwanted touch occurs.

Define self-esteem.

Identify characteristics of healthy self-esteem.

Understand self-esteem can be enhanced by working through challenges.

Explain how the body reacts to stress.

Identify personal stressors.

Describe importance of being aware of one's own feelings.

Identify characteristics of self-control.

Recognize harassment and intimidation.

Compare and contrast prescription and over-the-counter medicines with harmful drugs.

Understand commonly used terms for marijuana.

Describe effects of tobacco, secondhand smoke, alcohol, and marijuana.

Recognize dimensions of health.

Identify ways pathogens enter the body.

Identify common chronic diseases and allergies.

Explain how common childhood illnesses are treated.

Identify how peers, media, and technology influence food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Identify positive and negative influences on body image.

Identify how family, school, and community influence decisions related to tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Describe how media and technology influence health decisions and behaviors.

Identify reliable resources that promote healthy eating.

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

Demonstrate effective refusal skills to limit unhealthy food choices and promote healthy eating.

List characteristics of healthy and unhealthy friendships.

Identify positive ways to communicate differences of opinion while maintaining relationships.

Demonstrate how to respond appropriately to bullying or teasing.

Describe verbal and nonverbal communication skills to avoid tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Demonstrate effective refusal skills.

Recognize how to ask for needs.

Identify situations and potential outcomes of decisions related to tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Predict potential short-term outcomes of a health-related decision.

Develop a healthy eating goal.

Identify resources to support achievement of a personal health goal.

Identify strategies to manage personal stress.

Demonstrate effective hygiene practices.

Identify benefits of intervening and disadvantages of being a bystander.

Create a balanced daily food plan.

Classify nutrients found in foods.

Describe how each nutrient contributes to a healthy body.

Identify impact of high-sugar and high-caffeine drinks.

Explain how to use information found on a Nutrition Facts label.

Describe why individuals have different caloric needs.

Identify ways to balance caloric intake and expenditure.

Identify foods that are high in fat and low in fat.

Describe benefits and consequences of consuming fats.

Describe how vitamins and minerals contribute to disease prevention.

Identify ways to prevent injuries in recreational activities.

Describe how to prepare for an emergency.

Understand basic first aid for minor injuries.

Explain how potentially violent situations can be avoided.

Explain importance of communicating and interacting safely when using electronic media.

Understand reproductive organs allow living things to reproduce.

Understand how communicable diseases are transmitted.

Describe characteristics of healthy friendships and other relationships.

Compare and contrast high and low self-esteem.

Understand the connection between self-esteem and healthy decision-making.

Explain emotional reactions to stress.

Describe relationship between attitude and stress.

Explain how stress management techniques positively impact health.

Compare and contrast bullying, teasing, harassment, and intimidation.

Understand differences between medically accurate use and abuse of prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines.

Understand tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are illegal for minors.

Describe reasons people use tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

Describe harmful effects of medicines tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Determine benefits of abstaining from or discontinuing use of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Identify dimensions of health.

List ways to prevent debilitating or life-threatening diseases.

Identify ways to keep the immune system strong.

Describe how family, school, community, peers, media, and technology influence food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Identify influences on violence and violence prevention.

Identify how friends and family can influence ideas regarding gender roles, identity, and expression.

Explain importance of communicating with trusted adults about relationships.

Understand ways family, friends, and peers can have a positive or negative influence on relationships.

Understand influences of family, culture, and media on body image.

Identify how peers, media, and technology influence decisions related to tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

Identify how culture influences health decisions and behaviors.

Compare and contrast Nutrition Facts labels for nutrition information.

Identify resources that can help achieve a healthy eating goal.

Investigate validity of health and wellness information, products, and services.

Demonstrate ways to show respect for all people.

Demonstrate positive ways to communicate differences of opinion and feelings while maintaining relationships.

Explain how expression of emotions may impact others.

Understand how to express empathy.

Demonstrate how to respond appropriately to bullying, harassment, and intimidation.

Describe how to ask for help to avoid situations in which others are using tobacco, alcohol, or marijuana.

Demonstrate appropriate strategies to manage or resolve conflict.

Recognize steps to a decision-making model.

Predict potential long-term outcomes of a health-related decision.

Develop a plan to achieve a healthy eating goal.

Create a personal health goal and track progress toward achieving it.

Describe practices and behaviors that promote safety and reduce or prevent injuries.

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Describe how the body's function and composition are affected by food consumption.

Analyze how healthy eating reduces health risks and promotes growth.

Explain importance of eating in moderation to promote health.

Describe how fiber contributes to disease prevention.

Identify dangerous or risky behaviors that might lead to injuries.

Identify safety precautions for playing and working outdoors.

Predict potential outcomes when making a decision related to injury prevention.

Explain how to respond to emergency situations.

Describe ways to prevent, reduce, and avoid violent situations.

Analyze how violent behavior impacts self and others.

Understand functions of reproductive systems.

Define human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Identify methods of transmission and prevention of HIV.

Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Explain importance of using social media safely, legally, and respectfully.

Explain how high self-esteem is a sign of emotional well-being.

Recognize how self-esteem is impacted by family and peers.

Identify resources for managing emotions.

Understand ways to manage difficult emotions.

Understand cyberbullying.

Explain how bullying, intimidation, and harassment affect individuals.

Identify a variety of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana products.

Recognize that tobacco alcohol, and other drugs can be addictive.

Recognize substances are more addictive and harmful during growth and development.

Explain how substance abuse can affect family and friends.

Describe dimensions of health.

Explain how family, peers, media, and culture influence decision-making related to hygiene practices.

Understand relationship between disease prevention and quality of life.

Describe how heredity can affect personal health.

Analyze how community, peers, media, technology, and culture influence decision-making related to food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Describe how media, society, and culture can influence ideas regarding gender roles, identity, and expression.

Describe influence of peers and social media on body image.

Describe how family, school, community, peers, media, and technology influence decisions related to use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs.

Analyze how family, peers, media, culture, and technology influence health decisions and behaviors.

Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy foods according to Nutrition Facts labels.

Identify reliable sources of information about tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

Demonstrate how to access valid information, products, and services.

Demonstrate how to effectively ask for help to improve personal food choices and promote healthy eating.

Describe effective communication skills to prevent, reduce, and avoid violent situations in person or on electronic media.

Demonstrate ways to resist peer pressure to use substances.

Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal communication skills.

Analyze a food journal to create a more balanced food plan.

Compare beverages to make a healthy choice.

Identify healthy alternatives for decisions related to substance use.

Apply decision-making skills to make a health-enhancing choice.

Analyze progress toward achieving a personal health goal.

Assess progress toward achieving a healthy eating goal.

Compare healthy and unhealthy ways to manage stress.

Promote ways to show respect for all people.

Understand how to support a peer to recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships.

List ways to support others in stressful situations.

Advocate for self and others to prevent bullying, harassment, and intimidation.

Identify functions of the six nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water.

Describe consequences of skipping meals.

Summarize importance of staying hydrated.

Distinguish between nutrient-dense and empty-calorie foods and identify examples of each.

Compare and contrast caloric expenditure for a variety of physical activities.

Identify diseases often caused by nutritional choices.

Identify guidelines related to bicycle, pedestrian, traffic, water, and recreation safety.

Understand basic first aid skills.

Understand cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) procedures.

Describe situations that could lead to violence.

Identify potential dangers of sharing personal information through electronic media.

Identify parts of the reproductive systems.

Identify examples of protective factors and risk behaviors.

Identify ways to communicate effectively in a variety of relationships.

Recognize that everyone has the right to set boundaries based on personal values.

Understand that it is illegal to send or post sexually explicit images or messages electronically.

Describe factors that can influence self-esteem.

Understand how to improve one's self-esteem.

Describe how self-esteem and body image are related.

Explain importance of a positive body image.