Grade 4 Health Arizona standards Standards

Encourage others to make positive health choices

Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues

Personal Advocacy

Ability to Advocate for Health

Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks

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

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Identify responsible personal health behaviors

Personal Responsibility for Health

Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors

Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

Health-Related Goal Setting

Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health

Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

Choose a healthy option when making a decision

Predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems

Analyze when assistance is needed when making a health-related decision

Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

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 how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health

Asking for Help

Demonstrate nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict

Self Protection and Dealing with Conflict

Demonstrate refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

Communication to Enhance Help

Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health

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

Accessing Help

Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

Knowledge of Sources of Help

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

Describe ways that technology can influence personal health

Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

Describe how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors

Identify the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors

Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors

External Influences on Personal Health

Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors

Describe when it is important to seek health care

Understanding Use of Health Care

Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems

Understanding Prevention of Injuries and Health Problems

Describe how physical activity impacts health

Describe the key nutrients contained in the food groups and how these nutrients affect health and learning

Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.

Understanding Personal Health

Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health

Understanding Multiple Dimensions of Health

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health

Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health

Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts