Grade 1 Health Delaware standards Standards

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Make requests to promote personal health.

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

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

Share examples of health practices to avoid or reduce health risks.

Show healthy practices to maintain or improve personal health.

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

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

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.

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

Students will demonstrate the ability to use 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.

Decision making is a process that impacts health

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

Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

Role play ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening or dangerous situation.

Utilize listening skills to enhance health.

Model healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Effective communication protects and enhances health

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

Describe ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Recognize trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

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

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.

Identify how the school can support personal health practices.

Describe how the family influences personal health practices

Health is influenced by multiple factors

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

Describe why it is important to seek health care.

Illustrate ways to prevent common childhood injuries.

Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases.

Recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.

Recognize that healthy behaviors impact personal health.

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

Students will understand essential health concepts in order to transfer knowledge into healthy actions for life

Express their like and dislikes and state their reasons

Continue to try regardless of success in the activity

Look forward to physical activity/physical education opportunities

Physical activity is fun.

Creates opportunities for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction through physical activity

Follow (classroom) safety rules

Play safely

Share (equipment time, knowledge, space)

Interact with a diverse population

Take turns and invite others to participate

Apply the rules of a game/activity with little or no reinforcement

There are ways to behave in physical activity settings.

Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Relate specific activities with specific health related components of fitness

Discuss the components of a healthy body

Participate in a variety of physical activity

Measure the heart beat

Demonstrate location and feel the heart beat

Physical fitness is good for you.

Achieves and maintains a personal health-enhancing level of physical fitness

Make use of PE opportunities.

Comply with rules and safe practices in PE.

Demonstrate PE skills during recess or other nonschool activities.

Perform tasks longer than before.

Participate and demonstrate how to evoke effects of movement on body (show heart rate with hand), sweating, breathing hard, feeling a stretch, out of breath, rosy cheeks, hard to talk (out of breath).

We need to move

Participates regularly in physical activity

Connect physical movements with overall health

Follow cues and commands (movement vocabulary)

Move safely in personal and general space.

Demonstrate and identify anatomy of body parts.

Demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts.

Adapt movement to different situations

There are different rules for different movements.

Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities

Associate specific physical activities or movements with specific health concepts

Move safely through space with self and others in changing environments

Actively participate in movement activities with self and others

Perform/demonstrate fundamental characteristics of motor skills.

Physical Activity involves using movement and motor skills

Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities