Maine School Administrative District #4

CORE CURRICULUM: SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Department: Wellness

CONTENT STANDARD: HEALTH PROMOTION AND RISK REDUCTION

Students will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of healthy behaviors. In taking responsibility for personal health, students lay a foundation for a healthy, productive life. Many diseases and injuries can be pre-vented by avoiding harmful behaviors and taking fewer risks. More importantly, students can take steps to improve their health such as eating better foods, exercising regularly, and paying attention to preventive care.

Performance Indicators: The learner will·

Kindergarten-Grade 4

1.        Review and extend prior learning

2.        Differentiate between safe and harmful substances found at home and school

3.        Demonstrate personal hygiene skills

4.        Choose healthful foods

5.        Demonstrate a variety of safety skills for different situations (e.g., pedestrian, bus, fire, auto, and bicycle safety)

6.        Compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful (e.g., bicycle safety, handling weapons, use of medicines)

7.        Develop injury prevention and safety strategies for personal health

8.        Demonstrate basic care of human body systems

9.        Apply coping strategies when they feel too excited, anxious, angry, or out of control (e.g., demonstrate slowly counting to ten when role-playing a situation where the student feels out of control)

10.    Demonstrate healthful and safe ways to deal with or avoid threatening and stressful situations

Grades 5-8

1.        Review and extend prior learning

2.        Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health

3.        Analyze a personal health assessment to determine health strengths and risks

4.        Develop strategies to improve or maintain personal and family health

5.        Develop injury prevention and response strategies for personal safety, including first aid

6.        Demonstrate ways to avoid or change situations that threaten personal safety

7.        Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy stress management techniques

Grades 9-12

1.        Review and extend prior learning

2.        Analyze the extent to which individuals are responsible for enhancing health and safety in the community and the workplace

3.        Demonstrate strategies to avoid, change, and report unsafe situations

4.        Design, implement, and evaluate a plan of stress management

Developed

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