Grade 2 Health CA Core Standards

Health Promotion - All students will demonstrate the ability to promote and support personal, family, and community health.

Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors - All students will demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that reduce risk and promote health.

Goal Setting - All students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Analyzing Influences - All students will demonstrate the ability to analyze internal and external influences that affect health.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Mental, Emotional, and Social Health

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Health Promotion - All students will demonstrate the ability to promote and support personal, family, and community health.

Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors - All students will demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that reduce risk and promote health.

Goal Setting - All students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Decision Making - All students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication - All students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Accessing Valid Information - All students will demonstrate the ability to access and analyze health information, products, and services.

Analyzing Influences - All students will demonstrate the ability to analyze internal and external influences that affect health.

Essential Concepts - All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Distinguish between helpful and harmful substances (including alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs).

Describe a variety of emotions.

Classify various foods into appropriate food groups.

Describe how to work and play cooperatively.

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

Describe the characteristics of a trusted friend and adult.

Explain why household products are harmful if ingested or inhaled.

Explain what it means to be emotionally or mentally healthy.

Identify the number of servings of food from each food group that a child needs daily.

Identify that a drug is a chemical that changes how the body and brain work.

Explain the importance of talking with parents or trusted adults about feelings.

Discuss the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast every day.

Explain why it is dangerous to taste, swallow, sniff, or play with unknown substances.

Identify changes that occur within families.

List the benefits of healthy eating (including beverages and snacks).

Explain why it is important to follow the medical recommendations for prescription and nonprescription medicines.

Identify characteristics of a responsible family member.

Describe the benefits of drinking water in amounts consistent with current research-based health guidelines.

Identify rules for taking medicine at school and at home.

Identify feelings and emotions associated with loss or grief.

Describe how to keep food safe from harmful germs.

Identify refusal skills when confronted or pressured to use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs (e.g., use a clear "no" statement, walk or run away, change subject, delay).

Discuss how to show respect for similarities and differences between and among individuals and groups.

Identify a variety of healthy snacks.

List healthy ways to express affection, love, friendship, and concern.

Identify and explore opportunities outside of school for regular participation in physical activity.

Identify positive and negative ways of dealing with stress.

Explain how both physical activity and eating habits can affect a person's health.

Identify internal and external factors that influence mental, emotional, and social health.

Discuss how family, friends, and media influence food choices.

Identify parents, guardians, and trusted adults who can provide accurate information and guidance regarding medicines.

Discuss ways to obtain information from family, school personnel, health professionals, and other responsible adults.

Identify resources for reliable information about healthy foods.

Identify people in the community who are caring, supportive, and trustworthy.

Demonstrate refusal skills to resist an offer to use drugs or inappropriate medicines.

Identify and demonstrate ways to express needs and wants appropriately.

Demonstrate how to ask family members for healthy food options.

Demonstrate communication skills to alert an adult about unsafe situations involving drugs or medicines.

Demonstrate how to ask for help from trusted adults or friends.

Evaluate why one person's medicines may not be safe for another person.

Use a decision-making process for solving problems with peers and family members.

Use a decision-making process to select healthy foods.

Compare and contrast healthy and less-healthy food choices for a variety of settings.

Identify safe ways to increase physical activity.

Describe how to make a commitment to be a good friend.

Set a short-term goal to choose healthy foods for snacks and meals.

Set a short-term goal to participate daily in vigorous physical activity.

Manage emotions appropriately in a variety of situations.

Examine the importance of eating a nutritious breakfast every day.

Show respect for individual differences.

Plan a nutritious meal.

Discuss suicide-prevention strategies.

Select healthy beverages.

Examine the criteria for choosing a nutritious snack.

Participate in physical activities with friends and family.

Object appropriately to teasing of peers that is based on personal characteristics.

Practice making healthy eating choices with friends and family.

Support peers in school and community activities.

Explain to others what is enjoyable about physical activity.