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MCSD K-5 Health and Safety Curriculum
1st Grade
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Title of Planned Instruction: Health
Subject Area: Health, Safety, and Physical Education
Grade Level: One
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: This course will enable students to
learn that health and wellness is related to their levels of
physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Required Time: One Year
Course Credit: n/a
Major Text(s) and Resources: Your Health, Harcourt
Brace, 1999 |
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| Names of District Subject Area Curriculum
Writing Committee: |
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Michele L. Clark
Jo E. Snook |
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Date of Board Approval: March 27, 2003
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Strand: Concepts of Health
Standard: 10.1
Grade/course: Health 1 |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Describe the stages of
growth and development. |
Discuss characteristics of stages of development:
- Infancy
- Childhood
- Adulthood
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-- Discussion |
| B. |
Develop awareness of the
functions of the main systems in the body and how they work together. |
· Identify
and explain five sense organs and their functions.
· Describe the importance of exercise in
relation to good health. |
-- Teacher observation
-- Project |
| C. |
Become aware of the
components of a healthful diet. |
· Discuss
the importance of the food pyramid in making proper food choices. |
-- Discussion
-- Project |
| D. |
Know age-appropriate drug information. |
· Identify what a drug is (i.e., anything
that changes how your body works).
· Demonstrate social skills to say no
to accepting drugs.
· Describe the differences between
drugs used for medication and drugs used for harmful purposes (i.e.,
tobacco, alcohol) and understand that medication should only be
accepted from a known adult.
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-- Discussion
-- Role play |
| E. |
Identify types and causes
of common health problems of children. |
· Recognize what lice are and demonstrate
ways of preventing the transmission of lice.
· Recognize that germs cause disease
and describe ways that germs are transmitted.
· Identify ways of preventing germs
from being transmitted.
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-- Discussion
-- Role play |
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Strand: Healthful Living
Standard: 10.2
Grade/course: Health 1 |
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Grade Level Objectives |
Performance Indicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Identify personal
hygiene practices that promote health and prevent the spread of
disease. |
· Discuss the importance of body
cleanliness.
· Identify and explain the importance
of the proper care of teeth (i.e., brushing, flossing, and dental
checkup).
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-- Teacher observation
-- Project
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| B. |
Identify
health-related products and services. |
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Discuss careers related to health and safety issues. |
-- Discussion |
| C. |
Develop an
awareness of media sources that influence health and safety. |
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Discuss ways the media impacts health and safety (radio
and television emergency alerts, commercials and
advertisements). |
-- Discussion |
| D. |
Become aware of
the steps in a decision-making process. |
Make appropriate decisions based on particular situations
(proper dress, getting along with others, personal behavior in
school setting):
- Identify a problem.
- Examine the options.
- Make the best choice.
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-- Role play |
| E. |
Begin to develop
an awareness of environmental factors that affect health. |
Identify hazardous factors in the environment that affect health:
- pollution
- insects/animals
- weather conditions
- poisons
- recycling
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-- Teacher
observation
-- Project |
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Strand: Safety and Injury Prevention
Standard: 10.3
Grade/course: Health 1
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| Grade level
Objectives |
Performance
Incicators |
Assessments |
| A. |
Develop an awareness of
safe/unsafe practices in the home, school, and community. |
Describe and discuss safe/unsafe practices in the home, school, and
community:
- Bus safety
- Classroom safety
- Playground safety
- Home safety
- Bicycle safety
- Passenger safety
- Pedestrian safety
- Severe weather
- Strangers
- Fire safety
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-- Role play
-- Project |
| B. |
Recognize emergency
situations and appropriate responses. |
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Identify proper telephone number to use during emergency.
· Recall procedures and rules for
safety in emergency situations:
- importance of remaining calm
- how to call for help
- simple assistance procedures
- how to protect self
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-- Role play |
| C. |
Recognize conflict
situations and possible solutions. |
Identify strategies to avoid or resolve conflict:
- walk away
- refusal skills
- adult intervention
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-- Role play |
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District Recommended Instructional Approach For the
Course
To Drive Teacher’s Instructional Activities |
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- art work such as booklets, charts, posters, mobiles, bulletin
boards, and illustrations
- experience stories
- class discussion
- games
- videos, cassettes, and CDs
- food preparation
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- read alouds
- exercises
- classification activities
- field trips
- guest speakers
- learning resource centers
- writing activities
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