Grade 4 Health Nevada standards Standards

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Advocacy: Students will demonstrate the ability to support/promote personal, family, and community health.

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

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

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

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

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Access Information: Students will demonstrate the ability to access reliable health information, products, and services to enhance health.

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Analyze Influences: Students will analyze the influences of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors have on health behaviors.

Human Reproductive System, HIV/AIDS, Related Communicable Diseases, & Sexual Responsibility Strand

Personal Safety Strand

Safety Practices, Injury Prevention, and CPR/AED Strand

Substance Use and Abuse Strand

Nutrition and Physical Activity Strand

Mental and Emotional Health Strand

Personal, Community, and Environmental Health Strand

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

Identify the body parts of the human reproductive systems using correct anatomical terms.

Explain that all living things reproduce.

Identify physical and psychological responses to stressors.

Recognize how expression of emotions can vary across individuals and situations.

Identify how each nutrient contributes to a healthy body.

Recognize the mental, social, and physical benefits of physical activity.

Compare and contrast a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that maintain or improve personal, community, and environmental health.

Differentiate between communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Assess the importance of accepting the similarities and differences of self and others as it relates to personal, community, and environmental health.

Describe how individuals interact within family structures.

Examine genetics and its relationship to family history and personal health.

Describe ways personal space of self and others can be violated.

Categorize various forms of abuse and ways to get help.

Describe how to report to a safe/trusted adult when you or someone else needs help.

Investigate the hazards and dangers of becoming separated or lost from a parent, guardian, or caregiver.

Categorize the advantages and disadvantages of communicating using technology and social media.

Categorize safe and unsafe situations at home, school, and in the community.

Summarize why people use overthe-counter and prescription medications in relation to health promotion and disease prevention.

Relate the positive and negative factors that influence a person’s physical, social and emotional health when using alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs.

Compare how various sources of family, peers, culture, media technology and any other factors influence health behaviors.

Locate home, school, and community resources that provide reliable health information, products, and services.

Interpret verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health and to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Apply the steps of the decision making process to an identified health-related situation to avoid or reduce health risks

Predict the potential outcomes of health-related decisions for self and others.

Formulate short- and longterm health goals.

Identify resources to assist in achieving a health goal.

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

Develop a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate advocacy for family members to make positive health choices.