Health K

Units

Unit Essential Questions Content Skills and Processes Multicultural Dimension
Human Growth and Development

How am I growing?
What are the five senses?
How are people different?
What is my pulse?

*Five Senses
*Body Parts (body tag)
*The heart: function, pulse, rate, exercise
*Resting pulse rate

*Recognize people with different abilities (PE/Homeroom/Library)
*Recognize body parts and their function (PE/Homeroom/Library)

Differences in people are discussed

Safe and Healthy Environment

How do I keep myself healthy?
How do I stay safe around animals?
What do I need to know to stay safe around fire and matches?

*Personal hygiene: handwashing, handling sneezing and coughing,proper use of bathroom
*Healthy sleeping habits
*Safe food handling procedures
*Emergency situations (unconscious, not breathing, no pulse, severe bleeding) and 911
*Stray and wild animals
*Water safety
*Fire hazards and fire prevention

*Demonstrate handwashing procedures (HR)
*Demonstrate how to handle coughing and sneezing (HR)
*Explain bathroom guidelines (HR)
*Understand the importance of sleep (HR)
*Know what to do in an emergency (unconscious, not breathing, no pulse, severe bleeding) (PE)

Nutrition

Why do I need to eat well and get exercise?
How do I know what to eat?
Why do I need water?

*Importance of good eating and physical activity
*Food pyramid
*Nutritional qualities of a variety of foods

*Recognize the importance of good eating and physical activity (PE)

Informed Consumer

What are commercials?
What do I want?
Where can I get help?

*The influence of advertising on thoughts, feelings and behaviors
*The influence of family, peers and advertising on personal choice (food and culture, serving size, American dietary standards)
*School and community health helpers (i.e. teachers/staff, nurse/counselor, first aid stations, 911, policemen, firemen)

*Identify how advertising seeks to influence thoughts, feelings and behaviors (Counselor/Library)
*Identify the influence of family, peers, and advertising on personal choice (food and culture, serving size, American dietary standards) (Counselor/Library)
*Locate school and community health helpers (Counselor/Library)

Healthy Relationships

Who am I?
How do I act towards other people?
How do I talk at school?
What is good touch and bad touch?
Who should I talk to when I am scared?
Who is a stranger? What should I do around a stranger?
How should I touch people in a safe way?
What am I feeling?
How are people like me? How are they different from me?
Why shouldn't I call people names?
What are the names of the parts of my body?
Can boys be nurses and girls be sports players?

*Self as an individual
*Appropriate behaviors in relating to others
*Socially appropriate language in the school community
*Difference between touching that feels good and touching that does not
*Where to go/who to talk to when afraid
*Strangers and how to stay stranger safe
*Inappropriate verbal and physical interactions
*Feelings and emotions in relationships
*Similarities and differences in others
*Manners
*Anatomical terms
*Gender equality

*See oneself as an individual (HR)
*Recognize and model appropriate behaviors in relating to others (HR)
*Understand what is socially appropriate language (HR)
*Differentiate between touching that feels good and that which does not (Counselor/Library)
*Identify where to go and who to talk to when afraid (Counselor/Library)
*Identify who is a stranger and what to do around a stranger (Counselor/Library)
*Recognize inappropriate verbal and physical interactions (Counselor/Library)
*Identify the feelings and emotions involved in relationships with family and friends HR)
*Recognize similarities and differences in others (HR)
*Recognize that put-downs and cruelty are inappropriate (HR)
*Learn and practice socially appropriate manners (HR)
*Use correct anatomical terms for communication (HR)
*Demonstrate and understand goals and expectations need not be limited by gender (HR)

Differences in others

Controlling Health Risks

What should I eat?
How do I stay healthy?
What should I do when a stranger tries to talk to me?

*Healthy food choices
*Personal hygiene
*Stranger danger awareness
*Healthy food choices
*Handling blood and all other body fluids
*Stress and relaxation

*Identify healthy food choices (PE)
*Demonstrate appropriate handwashing (HR)
*Demonstrate how to safely share a bathroom (HR)
*Make healthy food choices (PE)
*Avoid handling blood and all other body fluids (PE)
*Identify stress and relaxation and how they affect each other (PE/HR)
*Recognize positive feelings result from eating a balanced diet (PE/HR)
*Understand how serious injury happens when dangerous substances are handled (HR/Counselor/Library)