Grade 2 Health GSE Standards

Second Grade (17.00300)

Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Describe healthy behaviors that promote personal health, wellness, and disease prevention.

Describe why avoiding potentially harmful substances is a healthy practice.

Recognize potentially harmful situations, behaviors, and environments.

Recognize the relationship between feelings and behavior and engage in activities that promote mental and emotional health.

Identify proper nutrition that provides energy to help the body grow and develop.

Identify the characteristics of bullying and develop skills to respond appropriately.

Understand proper names for all body parts and identify healthy and appropriate boundaries around physical touch.

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

Discuss how the family, peers, and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being.

Discuss how the media and technology can impact health behaviors.

Compare the difference between internal and external factors that affect personal health and well-being.

Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of health professionals in the school and community who can assist with enhancing health.

Identify and explain health-promoting products.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Demonstrate and apply communication skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to identify verbal and nonverbal communication.

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Identify situations that need a health-related decision.

Identify how family, peers, or media influence a health-related decision.

Explain the potential positive and negative outcomes of health-related decisions.

Describe when help is needed to make a healthy decision.

Identify and describe opportunities to enhance personal health and well-being.

Identify and describe people who can help assist in problem-solving and decision making.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Identify a personal health goal.

Implement actions to achieve a short-term personal health goal.

Discuss and apply personal health behaviors to achieve goals.

Identify individuals who can assist in helping achieve a personal health goal.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Advocate for health and wellness with family and community.

Role model and encourage peers to make positive choices.