Kindergarten Health Maine Standards

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Students demonstrate coping strategies to use when feeling too excited, anxious, upset, angry, or out of control.

Responsible Behavior

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

Students demonstrate healthy ways to communicate.

Cooperative Skills

Stability and Force

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors.

Locating Health Resources

Students identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Demonstrate how body position can be adapted to pushing and pulling forces.

Advocacy Skills

Distinguish between verbal and nonverbal communication.

Environment and Personal Health

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Demonstrate a variety of safety skills for different situations.

Differentiate between safe and harmful substances found at home and school.

Show how base of support changes during static balances.

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

Students describe the transmission and prevention of common childhood communicable diseases.

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

Students demonstrate positions that create stability and force.

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

Students follow procedures for safe behaviors, including maintaining appropriate personal space, while participating in physical activities.

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

Validity of Resources

Goal-Setting

Students identify components of health-related fitness.

Physical Activity Benefits

Differentiate between situations when health-related decisions can appropriately be made by the individual and when assistance is needed.

Students identify influences on personal health practices and behaviors.

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

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.

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

Recognize basic signs, symbols, and warning labels for health and safety.

Demonstrate ways to respond to an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation including telling a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

Students recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.

Students recognize that healthy behaviors impact personal health.

Self-Management

Demonstrate a locomotor skill applying changes in direction, level, and/or pathway.

Choose healthy foods.

Students encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Students identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Health Information, Products and Services: Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products 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 identify the physical benefits and bodily responses related to physical activities.

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

Fitness Activity

Demonstrate correct technique for a variety of locomotor skills.

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Make requests to promote personal health.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Students demonstrate taking turns and sharing while participating in physical activities.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Basic Health Concepts

Students identify situations where a health-related decision is needed.

Identify family influences on personal health practices and behaviors.

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

Movement Skills

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Demonstrate how to lift objects to prevent injuries.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

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

Demonstrate personal hygiene skills, including hand-washing.

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

Students identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.

Demonstrate combinations of locomotor skills.

Students participate in physical activities to introduce the health-related fitness components of flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength.

Students demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce personal health risks.

Decision-Making

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

Students demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills.

Dimensions of Health