Grade 4 Health IAS Standards

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

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

Explain ways in which school and community environments can promote personal health.

Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.

Recognize when it is important to seek health care.

Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors.

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

Explain how peers, the media, including social media, can influence thoughts, feelings and healthy behaviors.

Recognize how peers can influence health and unhealthy behaviors.

Identify the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.

Describe ways technology can influence personal health.

Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

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

Formulate effective (assertive) verbal and nonverbal communication strategies.

Demonstrate the ability to actively listen to enhance health.

Explain healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Determine ways to communicate kindness and respect for others.

Describe refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Model how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

Analyze strategies to prevent and manage conflict.

Recognize barriers to healthy communication.

Identify personal health decisions and influences.

Predict health risk of decisions to self and others.

Identify important steps to take when making a health related decision.

Describe how personal health decisions are connected to subsequent decisions.

Assume responsibility for personal health decisions.

Explain the benefits of planning and setting personal health goals.

Develop a personal health goal and a plan to achieve it.

Identify possible barriers to achieving the personal health goal.

Demonstrate how to achieve the personal health goal and express awareness of possible barriers in the plan.

Examine the impact of personal choices on the personal health goal.

Identify who can help in achieving the personal health goal.

Monitor and evaluate progress towards achieving the personal health goal.

Explain character traits and behaviors of a healthy and safe person.

Identify specific ways to avoid or reduce health and safety risks.

Identify personal, family, school, or community health and safety concerns.

Select a health or safety issue on which to take a stand.

Locate evidence about the health or safety issue.

Identify groups or others who advocate for the health issue.

Clarify personal beliefs regarding the health or safety issue.

Take a clear stand or position on health-enhancing behaviors.

Use a communication technique to inform others about a health or safety issue.

Identify an audience and adapt the health or safety message and communication technique to the characteristics of the individual or group.

Setting Health Goals

Overcoming Communication Barriers

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Health and Safety Strengths and Needs

Safety Concerns and Assessments

Health Risk Refusal Skills

No standards defined.

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

Family History & Personal Health

No standards defined.

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

Communicating Care, Consideration, and Respect

Evaluating Health Information

Professional Health Services

Personal Health Responsibility

No standards defined.

Personal Health

Health Goal Progress

Personal Health Decisions

Personal Health Decisions and Influences

Health Risk Behaviors

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

Health and Safety Strengths and Needs

Achieving Health Goals

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

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

No standards defined.

Advocating for Health Issues

Preventing Injury

Media Influence on Health Behaviors

Evidence for Health/Safety Issues

Accessing Health Care

Unhealthy Behavior Outcomes

School/Public Health Policy Influence on Health Behaviors

Dimensions of Health

Barriers to Health Goals

Healthy Behaviors

Peer Influence on Health Behaviors

Making Health-Related Decisions

Cultural Influence on Health Behaviors

Technology Influence on Health Behaviors

Students demonstrate the ability to practice strategies and skills to enhance personal health and reduce health risks.

Health Goal Support Systems

Expressing Needs, Wants, and Feelings

Personal Values Influence on Health Behaviors

No standards defined.

Personal Choices and Health Goals

Asking for Assistance

No standards defined.

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Accessing Health Information

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

Personal Belief for Health/Safety Issues

No standards defined.

No standards defined.

Health Goal Adaptability

Practicing Healthy Behaviors

Locating Reliable Health Products/Services

No standards defined.

Overcoming Communication Barriers

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

Standing for Health/Safety Issues

Managing Conflict

Family Influence on Health

Listening Skills

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Health Decision Connections

Verbal/Nonverbal Communication Skills

Safety Knowledge Skills

No standards defined.

School and Community Impact

No standards defined.

Health Information and Services

Norms Perception Influence on Health Behaviors

No standards defined.