Grade 4 Health IAS Standards

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Communicating Health/Safety Issues

Personal Belief for Health/Safety Issues

Advocating for Health Issues

Evidence for Health/Safety Issues

Standing for Health/Safety Issues

Safety Concerns and Assessments

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

No standards defined.

Health and Safety Strengths and Needs

Health and Safety Strengths and Needs

Safety Knowledge Skills

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

Health Goal Progress

Health Goal Support Systems

Personal Choices and Health Goals

Health Goal Adaptability

Barriers to Health Goals

Achieving Health Goals

Setting Health Goals

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

No standards defined.

Personal Health Decisions

Personal Health Responsibility

Health Decision Connections

Making Health-Related Decisions

Evaluating Health Information

Personal Health Decisions and Influences

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

No standards defined.

Overcoming Communication Barriers

Overcoming Communication Barriers

Managing Conflict

Asking for Assistance

Health Risk Refusal Skills

Communicating Care, Consideration, and Respect

Expressing Needs, Wants, and Feelings

Listening Skills

Verbal/Nonverbal Communication Skills

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

No standards defined.

Locating Reliable Health Products/Services

No standards defined.

Professional Health Services

Accessing Health Information

Health Information and Services

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

No standards defined.

School/Public Health Policy Influence on Health Behaviors

No standards defined.

Health Risk Behaviors

No standards defined.

Personal Values Influence on Health Behaviors

No standards defined.

Norms Perception Influence on Health Behaviors

Technology Influence on Health Behaviors

Cultural Influence on Health Behaviors

Peer Influence on Health Behaviors

Media Influence on Health Behaviors

School and Community Impact

Family Influence on Health

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

No standards defined.

Unhealthy Behavior Outcomes

No standards defined.

Practicing Healthy Behaviors

No standards defined.

Family History & Personal Health

Accessing Health Care

Preventing Injury

Personal Health

Dimensions of Health

Healthy Behaviors

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

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.