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Content Area: Comprehensive Health
Grade Level Expectations: Preschool
Standard: 2. Physical and Personal Wellness in Health

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Develop self-management skills and personal hygiene skills to promote healthy habits
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies

Students Can:

  1. Develop an awareness of healthy habits such as using clean tissues, washing hands, handling food hygienically, brushing teeth, and dressing appropriately for the weather (DOK 1-3)

Inquiry Questions:

  1. Why is it important to take care of your teeth?
  2. How would you feel if you did not have the right clothes for a very cold or hot day?

Relevance & Application:

  1. The mothers of many baby animals such as cats and rabbits, clean their babies by licking them.
  2. Automatic water faucets, soap dispensers and toilets allow users to be "hands-free" in public place.

Nature Of:

  1. Personal hygiene is an important step in the prevention of disease and illness.

Content Area: Comprehensive Health
Grade Level Expectations: Preschool
Standard: 4. Prevention and Risk Management in Health

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Identify ways to be safe while at play
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies

Students Can:

  1. State how to be a safe pedestrian (DOK 1-3)
  2. Identify ways to reduce injuries on the playground (DOK 1)

Inquiry Questions:

  1. Why walk on a sidewalk and not in the middle of the road?
  2. Why should I listen to my teacher when I am on the playground?
  3. How can the playground be a place where I could get hurt when it is so much fun to be there?

Relevance & Application:

  1. It is important to identify situations that are unsafe to prevent injuries.
  2. Many playgrounds are built in special ways to prevent injury.
  3. Some roads and playgrounds are built to accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Nature Of:

  1. All fun settings have material and objects which can inadvertently be the source of injury.