Kindergarten Health Nevada standards Standards

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Personal Safety Strand

Safety Practices, Injury Prevention, and CPR/AED Strand

Substance Use and Abuse Strand

Nutrition and Physical Activity Strand

Mental and Emotional Health Strand

Personal, Community, and Environmental Health Strand

Identify different emotions.

List ways a person shows emotions.

Explain why the body needs food and water.

Describe physical activity.

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

Identify a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal, community, and environmental health.

Define pathogens.

Identify traits that make a person or community unique.

Identify your family structure.

Define personal space.

Define abuse.

Define safe/trusted adult.

List ways to avoid becoming separated from parent, guardian, or caregiver.

List emergency contacts and safety rules for preventing injury at home, school, and community.

Define medication and ways they can be helpful or harmful.

Identify alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs and ways they can be harmful.

Analyze Influences: Students will analyze the influences of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors have on health behaviors.

Identify various sources that influence health behaviors.

Access Information: Students will demonstrate the ability to access reliable health information, products, and services to enhance health.

Identify safe/trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Interpersonal Communication: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and to avoid or reduce health risks.

Name healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings to enhance health and to avoid or reduce health risks.

Define refusal skills.

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

Identify healthy and unhealthy situations.

Identify individuals that can aid in healthy decision making.

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

Define goal.

Self-Management: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and to avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify personal health behaviors.

Identify behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.

Advocacy

List ways to encourage peers to make positive health choices.