Kindergarten Health Kentucky Standards

Identify family and school rules about the use of medicines.

Describe why it is harmful to tease or bully others.

Describe the importance of choosing healthy foods and beverages and identify the benefits of drinking water.

Describe the importance of talking with parents and other trusted adults about feelings.

Describe the importance of respecting the personal space and boundaries of others.

Identify the benefits of personal health care practices.

Identify how injuries can be prevented.

Identify the benefits of healthy peer and family relationships.

Describe the benefits of not using tobacco.

Identify safe and unsafe touches.

Identify people at home and in the community who influence personal health decisions and behaviors.

Identify school and community health care helpers.

Identify trusted adults who help provide accurate health information.

Identify effective active listening skills.

Identify how to effectively communicate needs, wants and feelings in healthy ways.

Identify unwanted, threatening or dangerous situations.

Identify trusted adults to talk to if feeling threatened or harmed.

Describe positive behaviors used to communicate with others.

Identify steps needed to make informed decisions.

Identify health situations that require decision-making assistance.

Identify trusted adults who help make health decisions for you.

Identify individual goals for improving health.

Identify choices needed to reach a goal.

Identify people who can help achieve goals.

Identify personal health habits that promote healthy living.

Identify what causes diseases and other health risks.

Identify ways to encourage others to be healthy.

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

Use goal-setting skills to enhance healthy behaviors.

Access valid information, products and services to enhance health.

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

Advocate for personal, family and community health.

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

Use decision-making skills to enhance healthy behaviors.

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

Use functional health information to support health and well-being of self and others: The acquisition and application of functional health information provides a foundation for promoting health and well-being. This standard includes essential concepts based on established theories and models of health behavior and health promotion. It focuses not only on risk factors, but also on protective factors that can support health and wellness. Concepts reflected in this standard include health literacy, health promotion, health equity, social determinants of health, well-being and health outcomes within individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts. Functional information can be applied to health-related skills, such as analyzing influences, accessing resources, interpersonal communication, decision-making, goal-setting, engaging in health practices and behaviors and advocacy.

Identify strengths and assets that support health and well-being.

Identify dimensions of wellness.

Identify ways to prevent or reduce risks for illnesses and injuries.

Describe health-promoting behaviors.

Identify the importance of health and well-being.

Identify how the environment affects personal and community health.

Identify family and school rules about using medicines correctly.

Identify the benefits of avoiding alcohol and nicotine products.

Identify ways to prevent harmful effects of the sun.

Analyze influences that affect health and well-being, including but not limited to family, peers, culture, media and technology: Health and well-being are affected by many, diverse influences within individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts. This standard focuses on identifying and evaluating internal and external factors influencing health practices and behaviors. Influences on health and well-being may include but are not limited to: personal values and beliefs, perceived and social norms, family, peers, schools, communities, culture, media and technology, policies and the environment. This standard recognizes that the factors affecting health behaviors and outcomes, such as social determinants of health, are complex and impact people and communities differently. It also supports the individual’s ability to identify and use skills to recognize the types of influences, analyze the role of influences across a variety of wellness dimensions and manage influences on health and well-being in digital and in-person settings. This skill contributes to a better understanding of the connections between individual health, community health and health equity, which can strengthen use of other health skills, such as accessing information and advocacy.

Identify various influences that affect health and well-being of self and others

Explain how various influences affect the health and well-being of self and others.

Explain how technology and social media influence the health of self and others.

Access valid and reliable resources to support health and well-being of self and others: Access to valid and reliable health information, products, services and other resources is essential to promoting health and well-being and preventing, detecting, managing and treating health issues and conditions. Access to valid and reliable information, products, services and other resources promotes health and well-being in individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts. This standard focuses on identifying, accessing and evaluating valid and reliable resources, including managing misinformation and disinformation, within digital and in-person settings. Media and technology play a significant and increasing role in the way individuals learn about and connect with themselves, others and the world. This standard engages students in critical thinking around media messages and resources, including how they are accessed, evaluated and used to support health and well-being.

Identify characteristics of trusted adults and other individuals who support health and well-being.

Demonstrate when and how to seek help from others at home, at school, or in the community.

Locate school and community health helpers.

Use interpersonal communication skills to support health and well-being of self and others: Effective communication promotes health and well-being in individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts. This standard focuses on expressive and receptive communication in digital and in-person settings. Combined with perspective-taking, communication skills help to recognize and strengthen interpersonal interactions, create and maintain relationships, express and interpret messages and manage conflict. Developing communication skills helps individuals to see how they communicate and the ways in which their communication affects those around them.

Express thoughts, feelings, wants and needs to support health and well-being of self and others.

Practice active listening skills in a variety of situations.

Demonstrate communication skills and strategies to use if uncomfortable, unsafe or harmed.

Recognize ways to communicate and respect the boundaries of self and others.

Demonstrate ways to show kindness and compassion.

Use a decision-making process to support health and well-being of self and others: Effective decision-making is needed to identify, adopt and maintain health-promoting behaviors. This standard includes skills and steps integral to the process of effective decision-making to support health and well-being. The decision-making process enables collaboration to improve quality of life within individual, interpersonal, community, societal, cultural and environmental contexts.

Identify when a health-related decision is needed to maintain or improve health and well-being.

Recognize when help is needed for a health-related decision.

Describe options and potential outcomes for a health-related decision.

Choose an option that supports health and well-being.

Use a goal-setting process to support health and well-being of self and others: Goal-setting is a process to support short- and long-term health and well-being goals. In addition to achieving a goal, a goal-setting process includes using practices, habits and routines in daily life. This standard includes the processes needed to plan, reach and reflect on health goals. Setting goals is a flexible process and considers personal and social factors affecting health and well-being. Goal-setting supports aspirations and future planning for health and well-being within individual, interpersonal, community, societal, cultural and environmental contexts.

Determine a health behavior to change or reinforce.

Identify a goal that supports health and well-being.

Determine who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a health-related goal.

Describe actions that support reaching a health-related goal.

Take action to achieve a health-related goal.

Reflect with guidance and support on the results of goal-setting.

Demonstrate practices and behaviors to support health and well-being of self and others: Developing health practices and behaviors can promote health and well-being over the lifespan and reduce risk to self and others. Practicing health behaviors is critical to incorporating health-promoting habits and routines into all dimensions of wellness. Due to the increasing influence of technology, it is crucial to develop and apply practices and behaviors that support media balance and digital wellness. This standard promotes individual and collective responsibility by encouraging the exploration and practice of skills and processes that support health and wellbeing in individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts.

Identify practices and behaviors that support health and well-being of self and others.

Demonstrate practices and behaviors that support health and well-being of self and others.

Advocate to promote health and well-being of self and others: Advocacy skills are critical for promoting health and well-being within individual, interpersonal, community, societal and environmental contexts. This standard helps learners develop and apply skills and strategies to increase agency and advocacy for self and others. Practicing advocacy helps students be informed, civic-minded members of their community, who are inclusive of individual, cultural, historical and other differences.

Make requests to support personal health and well-being.

Identify a variety of ways to support others in making health-promoting choices.

Encourage others to make health-promoting choices.