Grade 4 Health Maine Standards

Dimensions of Health

Students demonstrate a variety of movements that apply stability and force.

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Health Concepts: Students comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Growth and Development

Students encourage others to make positive health choices.

Students demonstrate cooperative skills while participating in physical activities.

Students utilize goal-setting skills to implement a short-term personal health goal.

Students demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate locomotor skills and manipulative skills in combination using changes in direction, level, or pathway.

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills including assertiveness skills to enhance health.

Track progress toward achieving the goal.

Goal-Setting

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Design healthy menus.

Students describe ways technology can influence personal health.

Students explain the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Demonstrate healthy and safe ways to recognize, deal with, or avoid threatening situations.

Stability and Force

Self-Management

Cooperative Skills

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems and predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision.

Demonstrate basic care of the human body.

Express opinions about health issues.

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Personal and Social Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and explain responsible personal behavior and responsible social behavior in physical activity settings.

Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

Describe how peers and culture can influence health practices and behaviors.

Advocacy Skills

Describe the outcome of a health-related decision.

Students describe and give examples of the five health-related fitness components.

Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Students participate in physical activities that address each of the five health-related fitness components including flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and body composition.

Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Develop injury prevention and safety strategies for personal health.

Set a short-term personal health goal.

Health Information, Products and Services: Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health.

Describe how family, school, and community influence and support personal health practices and behaviors.

Accept responsibility for personal behavior.

Students demonstrate strategies that can be used to manage stress, anger, or grief.

Skill Improvement

Fitness Assessment

Students demonstrate safe behaviors and appropriate equipment use while participating in physical activities.

Technology and Health

Students describe ways a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.

Demonstrate appropriate listening skills to enhance health.

Students describe how a variety of factors influence personal health behaviors.

Demonstrate non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.

Identify resources to assist in achieving the health goal.

Students locate resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information.

Responsible Behavior

Basic Health Concepts

Influences on Health: Students analyze the ability of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors to enhance health.

Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.

Students describe ways to detect and treat common childhood diseases and other health problems.

Students demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills and manipulative skills.

Movement Skills

Validity of Resources

Students demonstrate age-appropriate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Students demonstrate a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce personal health risks.

Students apply decision-making steps to enhance health.

Get along with others.

Students define basic health concepts related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.

Movement/Motor Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate the fundamental and specialized movement skills and apply principles of movement for improved performance.

Students identify the skill-related fitness components of balance, coordination, agility, and speed.

Show how increasing speed and mass can change the force on an object.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Demonstrate how body position can be changed to absorb force and decrease risk for injury.

Students identify physical and mental benefits and bodily responses related to regular participation in physical activity.

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

Environment and Personal Health

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

Fitness Activity

Students identify examples of physical, mental, emotional, and social health during childhood.

Students describe why practice is important to skill improvement.

Give accurate information about health issues.

Locating Health Resources

Demonstrate movements that change the center of gravity and line of gravity during dynamic balances.

Decision-Making and Goal-Setting Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health.

Decision-Making

Students identify the general characteristics of human growth and development.

Demonstrate active listening.

Students describe safety rules and rules of play for games/physical activities.

Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and apply fitness concepts.

Students identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

Demonstrate correct technique for a variety of manipulative skills.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

Physical Activity Benefits

Students participate in multiple health-related fitness assessments (including a cardiovascular assessment) and reassess to observe changes over time.