Grades 3-5

Other Kansas Health Education sets

• Grades K-2
• Grades 6-8
• Grades 9-12

Community helpers and their roles within communities5.1

Local community needs/issues/events5.

Structure of communities5.

Individual roles in maintaining a healthy community5.4

Validity of information on health care products and services 5.

Hazards and benefits of medicines and health-care products5.2

Interpersonal and intrapersonal influences on health choices5.3

Validity of product claims5.4

Healthy and clean communities5.1

Reduce, reuse, recycle, and alternatives5.

Types and effects of pollution5.3

Environmental hazards and their health risks (air, soil, sun, water, noise, food, chemicals, etc.)5.4

Building healthy relationships5.1

Changes associated with puberty5.2

Respect yourself and others5.3

Adapting to changes within families5.4

Stages of development5.5

Behaviors to prevent physical injury (ex. - fire safety, exercising, bicycle safety, car safety, etc.)5.

Regularly and properly use safety equipment5.

Proper responses to emergency situations5.

Refusal skills and decision making, to reduce accidents and injuries 5.4

Basic first aid (including when to call 911, etc.)5.5

Resources for injury prevention5.6

Safety when using the internet and other technology5.7

Non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts5.8

Appropriate methods of expressing feelings5.1

Expressing wants and needs in a productive and healthy manner 5.

Care, consideration, and respect to self and others5.3

Stress management and coping skills5.

Interpersonal and intrapersonal motivation for self-efficacy5.5

Relationship between body image and self-esteem5.6

Techniques to prevent bullying5.7

Digestive system (basic function and organs)5.1

Calories5.

Food groups5.

Healthy nutrition guidelines5.4

Nutritional needs through stages of development5.5

Food labels5.6

Energy and nutrients5.7

Food health policies5.8

Eating disorders/dysfunctions5.9

Links between nutrition and illness5.10

Energy drinks5.11

Informed food selection5.12

Impact of food choices5.13

Function and anatomy of the body systems5.1

Responsible care of the body (ex. - nutrition, hygiene, exercise, etc.)5.

Benefits of exercise5.

Importance and strategies to seek personal health care5.

Relationship between emotional, mental, social, and physical health5.5

Value and impact of sleep on the body5.6

Health plan for germ protection for disease prevention5.1

Common allergies and illnesses, symptoms and management5.

Communicable and non-communicable illnesses5.

Roles of the body and medicines in protecting against germs5.

Relationship between lifestyle choices and disease prevention5.5

Bacterial, viral, and fungal infections5.6

Structure and functions of the immune system5.7

Types of tobacco products and the risks of using these products5.1

Dangers of misuse and abuse of drugs5.2

Proper use of over the counter and prescription medicines5.3

Short-term and long-term effects of drugs5.4

Rules and laws for medicines and drugs5.5

Physical and psychological addictions5.6

Values and social behaviors in preventing drug use5.7

Resources and trusted experts on drugs and medicines5.8

Personal strategies (assertiveness, resistance, refusal skills, and goal setting) for drug free living5.9