Grade 1 Health
Course Description
This course helps students learn how to stay safe and healthy by recognizing emergencies and safe choices, practicing good hygiene, understanding how the body works, preventing illness, and making healthy food choices.
Course Big Ideas
- Students will stay safe at home, in school, and in the community.
- Students will learn ways to keep their bodies healthy.
- Students will understand how their body works and that what they eat helps them stay healthy.
Course Essential Questions
- How do my choices help keep me and others safe, healthy, and prepared for emergencies?
- What can I do every day to stay healthy, avoid danger, and know what to do in an emergency?
- Why is it important to understand my body, healthy habits, safety rules, and how to get help?
Course Competencies
- Students will demonstrate personal safety practices at home, in school, and in the community.
- Students will identify and respond to health and safety signs and symbols.
- Students will explain and practice healthy habits to prevent illness.
- Students will identify major body organs, their locations, and their functions.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of healthy eating and nutrition.
Course Assessments
- Observe the students as they practice age-appropriate safety skills throughout daily routines and supervised activities.
- Observe the students as they practice age-appropriate personal hygiene.
- Observe the students naming and locating the major body organs.
- Observe the students naming food groups and telling foods that belong to each.