Grade 5 Health Alabama Standards

Draw conclusions about the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Utilize information on various food labels to determine nutritional value.

Research illnesses and diseases associated with the use and abuse of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol.

Develop strategies and skills used to promote personal hygiene.

Identify signs, symptoms, and risk factors for cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.

Design a personal and class safety plan. Examples: home safety plan, fire drill, active shooter drill

Design a personal health plan utilizing the six dimensions of health.

Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.

Describe how positive and negative influences from family, peers, and culture affect adolescents’ body acceptance during the changes of puberty.

Describe ways that technology can influence personal health. Example: step tracker device, heart rate monitor, blood sugar monitor

Collect information about health choices from home, school, and community. Examples: DARE, SADD, MADD, health-related agencies

Research factors to consider when selecting health products. Examples: cost, safety, effectiveness, side effects

Utilize effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to build and maintain relationships and enhance health.

Compare positive and negative ways to respond to conflict and bullying.

Develop a class plan to prevent bullying in the school.

Apply risk reduction behaviors to protect self and others from use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Apply the practice of keeping personal information private while online.

Predict the potential outcomes of possible options when making a health-related decision. Examples: sickness, death, suicide

Create a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.

Identify resources in the school that may assist with achieving personal health goals.

Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks. Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

Propose safety precautions for Internet use and electronic gaming.

Implement a school health improvement project. Example: participating in the development of a school wellness policy, conducting survey of school health issues

Health Promotion

Hygiene

Media & Technology

Self-Awareness

Health Behaviors

Interpersonal Communication

Family, Peer, & Culture

Access to Information

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Social

Information, Products, & Services

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Advocacy

Conflict Resolution

Drug Awareness

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Disease Prevention & Health Care

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Monitor Progress

Problem Solving

Problem-Solving

Refusal Skills

Emotions & Feelings

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Injury Prevention

Goal -Setting

Analyzing Influences

Safety

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Promote Healthy Habits

Decision -Making

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Dimensions of Health

Nutrition &

Self-Management