Grade 4 Health Colorado standards Standards

Physical and Personal Wellness

Demonstrate the ability to set a goal in order to enhance personal nutrition.

Set a goal to improve food choices based on appropriate nutritional content, value, and calories.

Explain the importance of eating a variety of foods from all the food groups.

Identify healthy foods (including snacks) in appropriate portion sizes based on your personal lifestyle.

Describe the connection between food intake and physical health.

Explain that both eating habits and level of physical activity affect a person’s overall well-being and ability to learn.

Explain body signals that tell people when they are hungry and when they are full.

Explain how the dimensions of wellness are interrelated and impact personal health.

Explain the physical, social, and emotional dimensions of personal health and wellness and how they interact.

Define wellness.

Assess how modern technology can impact your social, emotional, and physical health and wellness.

Social and Emotional Wellness

Identify positive behaviors that support healthy relationships.

Discuss factors that support healthy relationships with friends and family.

Discuss how culture and tradition influence personal and family structures.

Describe different kinds of families, and discuss how families can provide emotional support, set boundaries, and limits.

Identify the positive ways that peers and family members show support, care, and appreciation for one another.

Identify problem solving strategies to support healthy relationships.

Describe the importance of having and identifying a parent or trusted adult as a support.

Comprehend concepts related to stress and stress management.

Identify personal stressors at home, with friends, in school, and in the community.

List physical and emotional reactions to stressful situations.

Identify positive and negative ways of dealing with stress.

Identify when you should seek help from a trusted adult in dealing with stress.

Prevention and Risk Management

Identify positive and negative uses for medicines.

Describe the purpose of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines and how they can be used or misused in the treatment of common medical problems.

Demonstrate the ability to read, understand, and follow labels such as those on common household medicines.

Summarize the risks associated with the inappropriate use of over-the-counter medicines, prescriptions, and vitamins.

Describe the steps to take if over-the-counter or prescription drugs are used incorrectly.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to refuse or avoid using drugs (marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco).

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal ways to refuse pressures to use marijuana, illegal drugs, abuse of prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Describe strategies on how to avoid the use of marijuana, illegal drugs, abuse of prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Examine the factors that influence a person’s decision to use or not to use marijuana, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Demonstrate skills necessary to prevent a conflict from escalating to violence.

Demonstrate simple conflict resolution techniques to diffuse a potentially violent situation.

Describe situations that lead to violence, the consequences of violent behavior, and the importance of resolving conflict through effective communication skills.

Explain a more positive alternative than using violence to resolve a conflict.

Explain the potential dangers of having weapons at home, in school, and in the community.