Grade 4 Health North Dakota standards Standards

Advocating for Health

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

Standard 7: Health Advocacy

Access and Use of Health Information, Products, and Services

Students demonstrate the ability to access, use, and evaluate health-related information, products, and services.

Standard 6: Consumer Health

Decision Making

Goal Setting

Students demonstrate the ability to use decision making and goal setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 5: Decision Making and Goal Setting

Conflict Resolution

Interpersonal Communication

Students demonstrate the ability to use communication skills to enhance health.

Standard 4: Communication Skills

External Influences on Health

Students understand the effect of external factors on the health of individuals, families, communities, and the environment.

Standard 3: External Health Factors

Safety and Injury Prevention

Disease and Illness

Personal Health

Students understand concepts related to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease.

Standard 2: Personal Health

Body Systems

Human Growth and Development

Students understand the fundamental concepts of growth and development.

Standard 1: Growth and Development

Explain the cycle of growth and development in humans from infancy to late adulthood

Explain the importance of intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and physical health during childhood (e.g., learning styles, healthy self-image, friendships, expression of feelings, fitness and wellness)

Describe how basic structure and functions of the human body systems are interrelated (e.g., skeletal system and muscular system work together to allow for movement)

Explain ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health (e.g., classroom rules that promote safety)

Explain the relationship between food choices and personal health (e.g., unhealthy food choices contribute to high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, high risk of cancer, high blood pressure)

Describe the different types of pathogens (e.g., bacteria, viruses, fungi, protists) and the diseases they cause

Describe ways to identify risk taking situations (e.g., staying home alone) and how to avoid threatening situations (e.g., being approached by a stranger, internet sites)

Explain how health careers (e.g., dietician, doctor, nurse) benefit an individual's community

Explain the importance of health care workers and how they benefit an individual's community (e.g., EMTs-monitoring participants in sporting events and ambulance rescue, school nurse-vision and hearing screenings)

Explain the purposes of advertisements and commercials for health-related products and services (e.g., motivate the consumer, promote goods and services)

Describe the different types of health-related advertisements and commercials in the media (e.g., testimonials, bandwagon)

Explain how a reduction in land, air, and water pollution can benefit our health (e.g., recycle, noise, plant trees)

Use appropriate communication skills (e.g., send a clear message through eye contact and body language, listen to each other, understand each other)

Develop and implement strategies for resolving conflicts (e.g., negotiation and compromise)

Develop a long term plan to achieve a personal health goal (e.g., eating the proper servings from each group in the food pyramid)

Use communication and listening skills to enhance health, set personal boundaries, and develop and maintain positive relationships.

Describe the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services (e.g., food pyramid, USDA, FDA, nutrition labels, CDC)

Describe ways to budget time and money to make health related decisions (e.g., recreation centers/movie, swimming/television)

Explain the importance of being a health advocate (e.g., positive role models, having a positive attitude about health, health fairs, posters)