Health - Grade 1   (#5008030)

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 identify various health/safety influences, positive or negative, including family, friends, school, community, and media.

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

• Core Concepts (health behaviors, disease prevention, body parts following rules and safety)
• Accessing Information (family rules, friend behavior, reliable resources and following rules)
• Internal and External Influences (warning labels and trusted adults/professionals)
• Interpersonal Communication (conflict resolution, verbal and non-verbal, active listening and refusal skills)
• Decision Making (positive or negative health enhancing choices, healthy options)
• Self Management (reducing risks)
• Advocacy (positive promotion, school and community rules)

Special Notes:

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).