Health - Grade 2   (#5008040)

General Notes

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy choices with the overall goal of improving quality of life, as well as describe personal health and ways that a safe, healthy home environment can promote personal health and prevent injuries.

The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Core Concepts (health promotion, emotions, following rules, body parts and environmental health)
• Accessing Information (doctor, nurses, hospitals, clinics, basic first aid, home safety, emergency drills, and reliable resources)
• Internal and External Influences (trusted adults and warning labels)
• Interpersonal Communication (sharing, conflict resolution, verbal and non-verbal, following rules and refusal skills)
• Decision Making (positive or negative health enhancing influences, healthy options)
• Goal Setting (personal health and safety)
• Self Management (safety and precautions)
• Advocacy (encouraging sharing and following rules)

Instructional Practices

Teaching from a well-written, grade-level textbook enhances students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any reason. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning:

1. Reading assignments from longer text passages as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
4. Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).

Version Requirements

The following standards and benchmarks focus on yearly instruction to ensure that students gain adequate exposure to health information and practices. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year's grade specific benchmarks and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.