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Second Grade Curriculum and Standards

Unit

Nutrition

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Create a New EQ or Search for Existing EQs

Create a New Content or Search for Existing Content

Healthful foods

The Food Guide Pyramid

Use the Food Guide Pyramid

Food Labels

Rules for Healthful Living

Healthful Snack
s
Food Ads

Keep Foods Safe

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Discuss the importance of choosing healthful foods.

Identify food groups
Classify foods using MyPyramid.

Tell how to use MyPyramid to plan meals and snacks.

Identify ways to choose healthful foods.
Discuss various ways to show respect.

Discuss the importance of serving sizes.
Learn how to recognize serving sizes.

Identify and explain the function of food labels.

Identify healthful snacks.

Learn the steps for practicing healthful habits.
Apply the steps for practicing healthful habits.

Discuss ways ads can influence food choices.

Identify ways to avoid food-borne illness.

Create a New Assessment or Search for Existing Assessments

Create a New Lesson or Search for Existing Lessons

MacMillan/McGraw Hill
8/1/2007

Health and Wellness, Chapt. 4, Lessons 1 through 10
8/1/2007

10.1.3.C ~ Concepts of Health ~ Explain the role o...

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Injury Prevention and Safety

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

What are ways you stay safe?

Safe at school and Home

Safe at Play

Safe Outdoors

Walk and Bide Safety

Car and Bus Safety

Safe From Strangers

Stay Safe from a Bad Touch

Safe From Bullies and Gangs

Stay Safe from Dangerous Things

Fire Safety

Stay Safe from Earthquakes and Bad Weather

First Aid

Tell rules to keep yourself and others safe.

Tell ways to avoid injuries at home.

Discuss safe places to play.
Tell how to prevent injuries during play.
Tell rules for playing safely in and around water.

Discuss safety equipment used during play.

Discuss playground safety rules.

Identify bicycle safety rules.
Tell how to cross the street safely.
Know hand signals for bicycle safety.

Tell rules for staying safe in and around cars and buses.

Tell ways to stay safe from strangers.

Discuss what to do if lost.
Tell how to prevent getting lost.

Know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touches.
Tell what to do if you receive a bad touch.

Discuss ways to stay safe from bullies and gangs.

Identify rules for gun safety.
Discuss ways to stay safe from harmful household products.

Tell ways to stay safe in a fire.
Tell ways to prevent fires.

Discuss what to do if there is a fire in a building .
Tell what to do if your clothes catch fire.

Discuss first aid for a cut, nosebleed, bee sting, and burn.
Tell when to call for help if someone is hurt.

Tell how to stay safe in an earthquake.
Tell how to stay safe during a storm.
Tell how to stay safe in a tornado.

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
10/1/2007

Health and Wellness, Chapt. 6, Lessons 1 through 15
10/1/2007

10.3.3.A ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.B ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.C ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.D ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Identify...

Unit

Alcohol, tobacco, and Other Drugs

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Medicines

Take Medicines Safely

Store Medicines Safely

Alcohol

Help With Alcohol Problems

Tobacco Harms Health

Be Drug-Free

Staying Drug-Free

Say "No"

Define drug and medicine.
Identify safety rules for using medicines.
Tell what medicine does.

Identify safety rules for taking medicine.
Identify warning labels on medicines.
Explain what to do if you have side effects from taking medicines.

Identify ways to store medicines safely.

Identify the ways alcohol harms the mind and body.

Name people who can help someone who has a problem with alcohol.

Identify the harmfull effects of tobacco use.
Identify the negative effects of tobacco use.

Identify reasons to be drug-free.

Discuss ways to stay drug-free.

Learn the steps for using refusal skills.
Apply the steps for using refusal skills.

Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill
12/1/2007

Health and Wellness, Chapt. 7, Lessons 1 through 9
12/1/2007

10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...

Alcohol, tobacco, and Other Drugs

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Medicines

Take Medicines Safely

Store Medicines Safely

Alcohol

Help With Alcohol Problems

Tobacco Harms Health

Be Drug-Free

Staying Drug-Free

Say "No"

Define drug and medicine.
Identify safety rules for using medicines.
Tell what medicine does.

Identify safety rules for taking medicine.
Identify warning labels on medicines.
Explain what to do if you have side effects from taking medicines.

Identify ways to store medicines safely.

Identify the ways alcohol harms the mind and body.

Name people who can help someone who has a problem with alcohol.

Identify the harmfull effects of tobacco use.
Identify the negative effects of tobacco use.

Identify reasons to be drug-free.

Discuss ways to stay drug-free.

Learn the steps for using refusal skills.
Apply the steps for using refusal skills.

Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill
12/1/2007

Health and Wellness, Chapt. 7, Lessons 1 through 9
12/1/2007

10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...

Personal Health and Physical Activity

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Checkups

Your Eyes and Ears

Your Teeth

Look Your Best

Exercise for Health

Exercise Safely

The Presidents Challenge

Make Wise Decisions

Be a Good Sport

Tell What to expect at a medical examination

Tell what happens during an eye examination

Tell ways to protect your vision

Tell what happens during an ear exam

Tell ways to protect your hearing

Tell what happens during a dental exam

Tell ways to care for your teeth

Tell why you need rest and sleep

Tell ways to keep the body neat and clean

Discuss the benefits of fitness

Tell ways to build heart fitness

Learn ways to stay safe during and after exercise

Discuss exercises that make the muscles strong

Learn the steps for making wise decisions

Apply the steps for making wise decisions

Tell ways to be a good sport

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill - 01
2/1/2008

Health and Wellness, Chapter 5, Lessons 1 through 7
2/1/2008

10.1.3.E ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify types and...

10.2.3.A ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify personal hy...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

10.2.3.D ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify the steps i...

10.4.3.B ~ Physical Activity ~ Know the positive a...

10.4.3.C ~ Physical Activity ~ Know and recognize ...

Communicable and Chronic Diseases

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Germs

Staying Safe from Germs

Wash Your Hands

Allergies: Nothing To Sneeze At

Asthma

Keep Your Heart Healthy

Obesity and Diabetes

Help Prevent Cancer

Manage Stress

Discuss symptoms of some common infectious diseases

Identify ways to prevent the spread of germs

Tell ways to get well if you have an illness caused by germs

Practice ways to keep germs from spreading

Identify some causes of allergies

Identify ways to manage allergies

Identify some asthma triggers

Identify ways to treat asthma

Describe habits that prevent heart disease

Tell how diabetes may be prevented and treated

Identify cancer as a non communicable disease

Tell some ways to prevent cancer

Learn the steps for managing stress

Apply the steps for managing stress

Macmillan/McGraw Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 8, Lessons 1 through 9
4/1/2008

10.1.3.E ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify types and...

10.2.3.A ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify personal hy...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

Mrs. Carolyn G. Way, Health Instructor, S.S. Palmer Elementary School, PASD, Palmerton, PA