Grade 1 Health Alabama standards Standards

Promote Healthy Habits

Advocacy

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

Injury Prevention

Monitor Progress

Self-Management

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

Problem-Solving

Self-Awareness

Goal -Setting

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

Problem Solving

Decision -Making

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

Refusal Skills

Conflict Resolution

Emotions & Feelings

Social

Interpersonal Communication

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

Information, Products, & Services

Access to Information

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

Media & Technology

Family, Peer, & Culture

Analyzing Influences

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

Dimensions of Health

Safety

Disease Prevention & Health Care

Hygiene

Drug Awareness

Nutrition &

Health Behaviors

Health Promotion

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

Explain how healthy behaviors impact personal health.

List food safety precautions.

Explain how overthe-counter and prescription medicines can be misused.

Explain rationale for not sharing hygiene products. Examples: combs, brushes, toothbrushes

Apply measures for cleanliness and disease prevention.

Demonstrate asking for assistance to enhance safety for self and others. Example: practice what to say when calling 911 or other emergency numbers.

Identify positive examples of social and emotional health.

Contrast tattling with reporting aggression, bullying, and violent behavior.

List healthy foods served by the school cafeteria.

Describe how advertisements can influence food choices. Example: show healthy vs. unhealthy options

Describe the roles of various health care professionals.

Identify school and community health helpers who can be contacted in emergencies. Examples: nurse, counselor, EMT

Identify ways listening skills can be used to build and maintain healthy relationships. Example: taking turns talking and listening

Discuss ways to express feelings to peers in a healthy way. Example: speaking calmly

Interpret the feelings of and describe ways to show empathy for others.

Demonstrate ways to respond in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation. Example: runhide-fight

Identify appropriate and inappropriate touches. Example: recognizing touching in the bathing suit zone as inappropriate

Describe situations in which students must choose between healthy and risky behaviors.

Create an ageappropriate personal health goal.

Describe ways that parents and other trusted adults can help a student achieve a health goal.

Identify healthy practices and behaviors to maintain and improve personal health.

Determine behaviors that avoid or reduce injury. Examples: importance of riding in the back seat, meaning of traffic signs, safe pedestrian behaviors

Encourage peers to make positive health choices. Examples: reminding peers to cover their nose and mouth when sneezing, offering helpful suggestions when peers are trying to resolve a conflict