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Fourth Grade Curriculum and Standards
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Core Unit Mental and Emotional Health  
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  Explain how total health reduces health risks

Identify ways to improve health and wellness

Describe the importance of practicing healthful behaviors

Identify the 6 parts of good character 

Describe a healthy personality

Explain how to use self-statements as a reminder of the responsible way to act

Describe the difference between a responsible decision and a wrong decision

Identify factors that influence decisions

List and apply the steps to making responsible decisions

Describe ways to have a healthful self concept

Describe how to set and achieve short-term health goals

Identify different kinds of emotions 

Describe healthful ways to express emotions

Describe healthful ways to prevent boredom

Describe how the body responds to stress

Explain ways to manage stress

Explain the benefits of a positive attitude
 
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Core Unit Family and Social Health  
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Core Unit Nutrition  
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  List the important nutrients

Describe energy sources for the body

Explain why your body needs water, vitamins, and minerals

List the groups in MyPyramid and the recommended number of servings

List ways to follow the Dietary Guidelines

Identify healthful ways to eat

Explain the importance of reading food labels

Identify appeals found in food ads

Explain how to eat healthfully at fast-food restaurants

Describe a balanced diet

Explain how to choose healthful foods

Explain why you need to eat a healthful breakfast

Identify ways to compare meals at fast food restaurants

Identify ways people may adversely react to foods 

Explain ways to prevent food borne illness

Explain how to balance food intake with physical activity

Identify ways to maintain a healthful weight

Explain the health benefits of a positive body image
 
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Core Unit Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs  
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  List safety rules for taking prescription drugs

Name safety rules for taking over-the-counter drugs

Identify ways to prevent drug misuse

Identify ways to prevent drug abuse

Describe types of help that are available to someone who has a drinking problem

List 10 reasons to say "no" to drinking alcohol

Describe ways that alcohol harms physical, health, mental and emotional health and family and social health

Describe how to quit tobacco use 

List 10 reasons to say "no" to tobacco use

List ways smoking harms health

Explain ways secondhand smoke harms health

Describe ways marijuana harms health

Identify ways that the misuse or abuse of stimulants and depressants harm health

Explain why it is harmful to abuse inhalants and steroids

List 10 reasons to say "no" to drug abuse

Name protective factors that help you say "no" to abusing drugs

Describe ways to get help for someone who abuses drugs
 
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Core Unit Growth and Development  
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Core Unit Communicable and Chronic Diseases  
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  List kinds of pathogens that cause disease

Name ways that pathogens enter the body

Describe habits that keep germs from spreading

Explain how the body's defenses work

List habits that help protect you from diseases

List symptoms of communicable diseases

List treatments for communicable diseases

List the cause, symptoms and treatment for some common childhood illnesses

Describe ways to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes

List causes of chronic diseases

Describe ways to control diabetes

Describe causes of allergies and ways to reduce the risk of allergy attacks

Describe ways to reduce triggers for asthma
Define heart disease

Explain what causes a heart attack

List ways to reduce the risk of heart disease and premature heart attack

List ways to reduce the risk of skin cancer

List ways to reduce the risk of lung cancer



List ways to reduce the risk of colon cancer
 
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Mrs. Carolyn G. Way, Health Instructor, S.S. Palmer Elementary School, PASD, Palmerton, PA
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