Grade 5 Health CA Core Standards

Skills for this content area are not identified until grades seven and eight.

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.

Growth, Development, and Sexual Health

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.

Personal and Community Health

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

Describe the human cycle of reproduction, birth, growth, aging, and death.

Describe the food groups, including recommended portions to eat from each food group.

Identify effective personal health strategies that reduce illness and injury (e.g., adequate sleep, ergonomics, sun safety, handwashing, hearing protection, and toothbrushing and tooth flossing).

Identify personal hygiene practices and health and safety issues related to puberty (e.g., showering, use of sanitary products, deodorant, and athletic supporters).

Describe how physical activity, rest, and sleep are related.

Identify physical, academic, mental, and social benefits of regular physical activity.

Explain the structure, function, and major parts of the human reproductive system.

Identify key components of the "Nutrition Facts" labels.

Explain how viruses and bacteria affect the immune system and impact health.

Identify the physical, social, and emotional changes that occur during puberty.

Explain the relationship between the intake of nutrients and metabolism.

Describe how environmental conditions affect personal health.

Define sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Explain why some food groups have a greater number of recommended portions than other food groups.

Describe the personal hygiene needs associated with the onset of puberty.

Describe how HIV is and is not transmitted.

Describe safe food handling and preparation practices.

Define life-threatening situations (e.g., heart attacks, asthma attacks, poisonings).

Recognize that there are individual differences in growth and development, physical appearance, and gender roles.

Differentiate between more-nutritious and less-nutritious beverages and snacks.

Explain that all individuals have a responsibility to protect and preserve the environment.

Recognize that everyone has the right to establish personal boundaries.

Explain the concept of eating in moderation.

Recognize that friendship, attraction, and affection can be expressed in different ways.

Describe the benefits of eating a nutritionally balanced diet consistent with current research-based dietary guidelines.

Explain that puberty and physical development can vary considerably and still be normal.

Explain how good health is influenced by healthy eating and being physically active.

Explain how culture, media, and other factors influence perceptions about body image, gender roles, and attractiveness.

Describe internal and external influences that affect food choices and physical activity.

Identify internal and external influences that affect personal health practices.

Describe how heredity influences growth and development.

Recognize that family and cultural influences affect food choices.

Discuss how changes during puberty affect thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Describe the influence of advertising and marketing techniques on food and beverage choices.

Recognize parents, guardians, and other trusted adults as resources for information about puberty.

Locate age-appropriate guidelines for eating and physical activity.

Identify sources of valid information about personal health products and services.

Differentiate between reliable and unreliable sources of information about puberty.

Interpret information provided on food labels.

Identify individuals who can assist with health-related issues and potentially life-threatening health conditions (e.g., asthma episodes or seizures).

Use effective communication skills to discuss with parents, guardians, and other trusted adults the changes that occur during puberty.

Use communication skills to deal effectively with influences from peers and media regarding food choices and physical activity.

Practice effective communication skills to seek help for health-related problems or emergencies.

Use healthy and respectful ways to express friendship, attraction, and affection.

Demonstrate refusal skills to protect personal boundaries.

Describe the importance of identifying personal boundaries.

Use a decision-making process to identify healthy foods for meals and snacks.

Use a decision-making process to determine personal choices that promote personal, environmental, and community health.

Analyze why it is safe to be a friend to someone who is living with HIV or AIDS.

Use a decision-making process to determine activities that increase physical fitness.

Use a decision-making process to determine when medical assistance is needed.

Compare personal eating and physical activity patterns with current age-appropriate guidelines.

Identify steps to achieve and maintain a healthy and accurate body image.

Monitor personal progress toward a nutritional goal.

Monitor progress toward a goal to help protect the environment.

Develop plans to maintain personal hygiene during puberty.

Monitor personal progress toward a physical activity goal.

Monitor progress toward a personal health goal.

Engage in behaviors that promote healthy growth and development during puberty

Identify ways to choose healthy snacks based on current research-based guidelines.

Practice good personal and dental hygiene.

Describe ways people can protect themselves against serious bloodborne communicable diseases.

Demonstrate how to prepare a healthy meal or snack using sanitary food preparation and storage practices.

Demonstrate personal responsibility for health habits.

Demonstrate the ability to balance food intake and physical activity.

Practice strategies to protect against the harmful effects of the sun.

Demonstrate the ability to assess personal physical activity levels.

Encourage and promote healthy eating and increased physical activity opportunities at school and in the community.

Encourage others to minimize pollution in the environment.