Kindergarten Health GSE Standards

Kindergarten (17.01100)

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

Identify healthy behaviors.

Recognize potentially harmful substances.

Identify safety hazards.

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

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

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices.

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

Identify types of trusted adults and professionals as resources for health information.

Identify specific health professionals in the school and community.

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

Examine ways to express feelings in a healthy way.

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.

Recognize ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation.

Discuss ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

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

Identify health-related situations.

Use a decision-making model in a health-related situation.

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

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

Identify a personal health goal.

Identify family members or trusted adults who can assist with achieving a short-term health goal.

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

Demonstrate healthy behaviors that improve personal health and wellness.

Demonstrate healthy behaviors that prevent injuries.

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

Seek assistance to promote personal health.

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.