Grade 1 Health Arizona standards Standards

Encourage family and peers to make positive health choices

Make requests to promote personal health

Personal Advocacy

Ability to Advocate for Health

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors

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

Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal

Health-Related Goal Setting

Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health

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

Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed

Application of Decision-Making Skills to Health

Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Influences on Health Decision Making

Use of Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Health

Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed

Asking for Help

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

Self Protection and Dealing with Conflict

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings

Communication to Enhance Help

Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health

Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers

Accessing Help

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health

Knowledge of Sources of Help

Access to Health Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Health

Recognize how technology can influence personal health

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors

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

Recognize how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Recognize how culture influences health practices and behaviors

Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors

External Influences on Personal Health

Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors

Describe why it is important to seek health care

Understanding Use of Health Care

List ways to prevent common childhood injuries

Understanding Prevention of Injuries and Health Problems

Identify that physical activity is integral to good health

Identify that foods are classified into food groups and that a variety of food is needed for personal health, growth, and development

Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases

Understanding Personal Health

Recognize what the human body is and what it means to be healthy

Understanding Multiple Dimensions of Health

Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health and overall well-being

Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health

Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts