Kindergarten Health Florida standards Standards

Community and Environmental Health

Core Concepts

Recognize ways the community encourages a healthy environment.

Recognize ways in the community to prevent common communicable diseases.

Internal and External Influence

Explain the importance of rules to maintain health.

Prevention and Decision Making

Recognize ways the community can prevent childhood injuries in the school and community settings.

Advocacy

Encourage others make positive health choices.

Consumer Health

Core Concepts

Recognize warning labels and signs on hazardous products and places.

Prevention and Decision Making

Define healthy and unhealthy choices.

Advocacy

Define ways to ask for support from a trusted adult or professional.

Personal Health Concepts

Core Concepts

Identify healthy behaviors that affect personal health.

Understand how you can prevent childhood injuries in the home, school, and community settings.

Recognize there are body parts inside and outside of the body.

Recognize ways you can prevent common communicable diseases.

Internal and External Influence

Identify members of the school and community who support personal health practices and behaviors.

Name healthy behaviors that family members should practice.

Identify safe and unsafe examples of internet use.

Prevention and Decision Making

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

Recognize healthy options to personal health-related issues or problems.

Recognize the consequences of not following rules/practices when making healthy and safe decisions.

Define a personal health goal and how it relates to overall health.

Advocacy

Identify the appropriate responses to unwanted, unsafe, and threatening situations.

Resiliency

Character

Define and give examples of kindness and caring.

Demonstrate the ability to take turns and share with others.

Describe ways to show respect to others.

Identify the difference between the truth and a lie.

Personal Responsibility

Identify healthy choices that affect personal wellness.

Demonstrate the ability to follow rules and directions.

Discuss the value of goal setting.

Identify and recognize basic feelings.

Identify personal strengths and actions individuals can do independently.

Mentorship and Citizenship

Identify the roles and responsibilities of trusted adults.

Identify characteristics of a good citizen in school and the community.

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Identify when help is needed and who to ask for help.

Identify the importance of sharing thoughts and ideas to solve problems.

Discuss ways to work together to solve problems.