Grade 1 Health Maine standards Standards

Students identify safety rules and rule of play for games/physical activities.

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Students follow procedures for safe behaviors, including maintaining appropriate personal space, while participating in physical activities.

Responsible Behavior

Students demonstrate taking turns and sharing while participating in physical activities.

Cooperative Skills

Personal and Social Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and explain responsible personal behavior and responsible social behavior in physical activity settings.

Students identify the physical benefits and bodily responses related to physical activities.

Physical Activity Benefits

Students participate in physical activities to introduce the health-related fitness components of flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength.

Fitness Activity

Students identify components of health-related fitness.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and apply fitness concepts.

Students identify the skill-related fitness components of balance and coordination.

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Demonstrate combinations of locomotor skills.

Demonstrate a locomotor skill applying changes in direction, level, and/or pathway.

Demonstrate correct technique for a variety of locomotor skills.

Students demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills.

Movement Skills

Demonstrate how to lift objects to prevent injuries.

Demonstrate how body position can be adapted to pushing and pulling forces.

Show how base of support changes during static balances.

Students demonstrate positions that create stability and force.

Stability and Force

Movement/Motor Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate the fundamental and specialized movement skills and apply principles of movement for improved performance.

Students identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal.

Goal-Setting

Differentiate between situations when health-related decisions can appropriately be made by the individual and when assistance is needed.

Students identify situations where a health-related decision is needed.

Decision-Making

Decision-Making and Goal-Setting Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health.

Students encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Advocacy Skills

Demonstrate ways to respond to an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation including telling a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.

Make requests to promote personal health.

Distinguish between verbal and nonverbal communication.

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

Students demonstrate healthy ways to communicate.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.

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

Identify family influences on personal health practices and behaviors.

Students identify influences on personal health practices and behaviors.

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Influences on Health: Students analyze the ability of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors to enhance health.

Students demonstrate coping strategies to use when feeling too excited, anxious, upset, angry, or out of control.

Self-Management

Recognize basic signs, symbols, and warning labels for health and safety.

Differentiate between safe and harmful substances found at home and school.

Demonstrate a variety of safety skills for different situations.

Students demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce personal health risks.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Demonstrate personal hygiene skills, including hand-washing.

Choose healthy foods.

Students demonstrate age-appropriate healthy practices to maintain or improve personal health.

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Locating Health Resources

Students identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Validity of Resources

Health Information, Products and Services: Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health.

Students identify basic health terms related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.

Basic Health Concepts

Students describe ways a safe and healthy school environment can promote personal health.

Environment and Personal Health

Students describe the transmission and prevention of common childhood communicable diseases.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Students recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.

Dimensions of Health

Students recognize that healthy behaviors impact personal health.

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

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