Kindergarten Health Delaware Standards

Recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.

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

Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed.

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

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

Recognize that healthy behaviors impact personal health.

Recognize trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Identify how the school can support personal health practices.

Decision making is a process that impacts health

Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases.

Illustrate ways to prevent common childhood injuries.

Share examples of health practices to avoid or reduce health risks.

Describe ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

Make requests to promote personal health.

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

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

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.

Students will understand essential health concepts in order to transfer knowledge into healthy actions for life

Effective communication protects and enhances health

Describe how the family influences personal health practices

Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal.

Describe why it is important to seek health care.

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

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

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

Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed.

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access information, products and services to enhance health.

Utilize listening skills to enhance health.

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

Model healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Show healthy practices to maintain or improve personal health.

Health is influenced by multiple factors

Look forward to physical activity/physical education opportunities

Associate specific physical activities or movements with specific health concepts

Share (equipment time, knowledge, space)

Measure the heart beat

Move safely in personal and general space.

Relate specific activities with specific health related components of fitness

There are different rules for different movements.

Continue to try regardless of success in the activity

Follow cues and commands (movement vocabulary)

Perform/demonstrate fundamental characteristics of motor skills.

Make use of PE opportunities.

Play safely

Physical Activity involves using movement and motor skills

Take turns and invite others to participate

We need to move

Move safely through space with self and others in changing environments

Demonstrate location and feel the heart beat

Creates opportunities for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction through physical activity

Participates regularly in physical activity

Apply the rules of a game/activity with little or no reinforcement

Comply with rules and safe practices in PE.

Participate and demonstrate how to evoke effects of movement on body (show heart rate with hand), sweating, breathing hard, feeling a stretch, out of breath, rosy cheeks, hard to talk (out of breath).

Adapt movement to different situations

Actively participate in movement activities with self and others

Demonstrate PE skills during recess or other nonschool activities.

Perform tasks longer than before.

Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Connect physical movements with overall health

Demonstrate and identify anatomy of body parts.

Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities

Discuss the components of a healthy body

There are ways to behave in physical activity settings.

Physical activity is fun.

Participate in a variety of physical activity

Demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts.

Follow (classroom) safety rules

Physical fitness is good for you.

Express their like and dislikes and state their reasons

Achieves and maintains a personal health-enhancing level of physical fitness

Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities

Interact with a diverse population