Grade 4 Health Michigan standards Standards

Develop plans to maintain personal hygiene during puberty.

Health Behaviors

Identify potential resources (e.g., parents, teacher, and other trusted adults) that can provide accurate information about puberty.

Access Information

Describe physical changes that occur during puberty (e.g., body hair, body odor, voice, body shape, strength, hormones, and menstruation).

Describe emotional changes during puberty (e.g., mood shifts).

Describe social changes during puberty (e.g., changes in friendships, crushes/attractions, and changing expectations of parents/adults).

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

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

Core Concepts

Growth and Development

Describe how people can protect themselves from infection with serious blood-borne communicable diseases, including not touching blood and not touching used needles.

Health Behaviors

Explain how HIV is and is not transmitted.

Explain that it is safe to be a friend of someone who is living with HIV or AIDS.

Define HIV and AIDS.

Core Concepts

HIV Prevention

Demonstrate skills throughout the day to reduce the spread of germs.

Health Behaviors

Personal Health and Wellness

Demonstrate the ability to confront bullying and teasing.

Express intentions to stop bullying as a bystander, perpetrator, or victim.

Explain what to do if you or someone else is being teased or bullied.

Demonstrate non-violent conflict resolution strategies.

Apply the steps of conflict resolution.

Describe characteristics and steps of conflict resolution.

Social Skills

Apply the steps to make a decision or solve a problem, using criteria to evaluate solutions.

Explain the decision making and problem solving steps.

Decision Making

Describe strategies to manage strong feelings, including anger.

Apply the use of positive self-talk to manage feelings.

Health Behaviors

Describe the characteristics of people who can help make decisions and solve problems.

Access Information

Describe the effect of teasing and bullying on others.

Core Concepts

Social and Emotional Health

Analyze how one influences the safety of others when adult supervision is not present.

Influences

Demonstrate strategies to get away in cases of inappropriate touching or abduction.

Apply strategies to avoid personally unsafe situations.

Apply strategies to stay safe when using the Internet.

Explain a rule and demonstrate actions to use when dangerous objects or weapons are present.

Apply strategies to stay safe and prevent injury when home alone.

Develop and practice a home fire escape plan.

Apply strategies to prevent fires and burns.

Health Behaviors

Demonstrate how to access emergency services, such as calling "911," including what to say when accessing such services.

Demonstrate how to ask a trusted adult for help.

Access Information

Explain that a child is not at fault if someone touches him or her in an inappropriate way.

Describe the characteristics of appropriate and inappropriate touch.

Explain the importance of respecting personal space and boundaries.

Describe safety hazards, including those related to fire, dangerous objects and weapons, being home alone, and using the Internet.

Core Concepts

Safety

Demonstrate verbal and non-verbal ways to refuse alcohol.

Social Skills

Analyze various strategies used in the media that encourage and discourage the use of alcohol and tobacco.

Explain how decisions about alcohol use will impact relationships with friends and family.

Explain how family and peers can influence decisions about using alcohol and other drugs.

Influences

Demonstrate the ability to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.

Health Behaviors

Explain the positive outcomes of not using alcohol.

Analyze possible reasons why individuals choose to use or to not use alcohol.

Describe the short- and long-term physical effects of being exposed to tobacco smoke.

Core Concepts

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Develop a one-day plan for eating the recommended portions of food from each food group.

Goal Setting

Analyze examples of food advertising.

Influences

Describe strategies people use to consume the recommended portions of food to meet their individual nutrient needs.

Assess one's ability to include physical activity, rest, and sleep in one's daily routine.

Health Behaviors

Compare the quantity of restaurant or packaged foods to the quantities of food needed to keep the body healthy.

Associate recommended food portions to the sizes of common items.

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

Analyze the relationship of physical activity, rest, and sleep.

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

Core Concepts

Nutrition and Physical Activity