Grade 2 Health Kentucky standards Standards

Advocate for personal, family and community health.

Practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Use goal-setting skills to enhance healthy behaviors.

Use decision-making skills to enhance healthy behaviors.

Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Access valid information, products and services to enhance health.

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

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

Describe how to use medicine correctly

Explain what it means to be healthy and how healthy eating and sleeping patterns help the body grow and develop.

Identify the benefits of healthy peer and family relationships.

Identify safety hazards in the home and the community.

Explain why it is harmful to tease or bully others based on personal characteristics.

Identify short and long-term physical effects of being exposed to tobacco smoke.

Explain why inappropriate touches should be reported to a trusted adult.

Identify and explain how community opportunities can influence personal health decisions and behaviors.

Demonstrate how to locate school, home or community health care helpers to enhance health.

Identify trusted adults within the community that provide personal health services.

emonstrate effective listening and verbal communication skills.

Demonstrate healthy ways to effectively communicate needs, wants and feelings.

Demonstrate appropriate ways to respond to an unwanted, threatening or dangerous situations.

Identify a trusted adult to ask for help in an unhealthy situation.

Demonstrate how to communicate care and concern for others.

Explain the potential outcomes of personal health decisions.

Explain the difference between when a health-related decision can be made individually and when assistance is needed.

Identify how family, peers and media impact health-

related decision making.

et goals for positive physical, mental and emotional health.

Analyze steps needed to reach a health-related goal.

Describe people who can support the achievement of health-related goals.

Describe personal responsibility in making healthy life decisions.

Describe behaviors that can cause harm to personal wellness.

Describe positive health behaviors regarding personal wellness, physical activity and safety.

Demonstrate how to encourage peers to make healthy behavior choices.

Make a request of others to advocate to improve their personal health.