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The elementary health curriculum is designed to provide a safe, healthy and caring environment that maximizes the social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth of young adolescents. The curriculum is designed to motivate children and youth to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, reduce health-related risk behaviors and develop and demonstrate health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices. The curriculum meets national and state health education standards addressing the following:
Standard 1: Core Concepts
Standard 2: Accessing Health Information
Standard 3: Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors
Standard 4: Analyzing Internal and External Influences
Standard 5: Communication Skills
Standard 5: Communication Skills
Standard 7: Goal-Setting Skills
Standard 8: Advocacy
In order to promote social, emotional and physical wellness, South Windsor Public Schools uses “The Great Body Shop,” a comprehensive curriculum that covers all aspects of physical, mental, social emotional health and safety. This K-5 program promotes wellness through the integration of ten health content strands, with social and emotional learning, as well as substance abuse and violence prevention skills and messages integrated into every unit. The mission statement of The Great Body Shop is, “to equip children and their families with the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy choices throughout their lives.”
Each of the units/topics covered in Grade 2 are listed below.
Great Body Shop Units
Unit 201:
Injury Prevention and Personal Safety
Unit 201:
Injury Prevention and Personal Safety
Safe vs. unsafe
Safety rules and laws
Common hazards
Emergencies: getting help, acting quickly
Protecting the brain
Acting responsibly
Refusal skills
Predicting consequences of safe and unsafe actions
Practicing personal safety routines
Types of touches
Unit 202:
Nutrition
Unit 202:
Nutrition
Role of nutrients
Number of daily servings from food groups
Role of good breakfast
Classifying and evaluating foods
Making responsible food choices
Nutrition and self worth
Implementing goals
Choosing healthful snacks
Identifying influences on food choices
Unit 203:
Functions of the Body
Unit 203:
Functions of the Body
Parts and functions of the brain
Various ways to be smart
Thinking skills
Heart functions
Muscles
Skin
Taking care of the body
Effects of smoking
Symptoms and effects of fear
Immune system
Body’s reaction to drugs
Unit 204:
Growth and Development/
Cycle of Family Life
Unit 204:
Growth and Development/
Cycle of Family Life
How babies grow and change
Knowing the stages of life
Needs of growing plants, animals, and people
Defining family
Family roles and respecting differences
Responsibility in families
Facing family changes
Predicting consequences of resisting change
Social awareness of differences
Self awareness of traits
Unit 205:
Disease and
Illness Prevention
Unit 205:
Disease and
Illness Prevention
How germs spread
Communicable vs. other illnesses
Defining ‘epidemic’
Role of hygiene in illness prevention
The immune system
Responsible vs. irresponsible behaviors
Vaccines and medicines
Using refusal skills
Practicing healthy behaviors
Signs and symptoms of illness
Medicine rules
Unit 206:
Substance Abuse Prevention
Unit 206:
Substance Abuse Prevention
Identifying drug types (nicotine, alcohol, street drugs)
Knowing the importance of healthy choices
Practicing changing habits
Positive ways to solve problems
Knowing the effects of drugs on family and community
Drug-free and safe communities
Refusal skills
Unit 207:
Community Health
and Safety
(Violence Prevention)
Unit 207:
Community Health
and Safety
(Violence Prevention)
Community helpers
Knowing ways you might hurt others and how they might hurt you
Practicing ways to avoid fights
Classifying violent and non-violent TV
Predicting consequences of various behaviors
Defining what it means to be drug-free and a good citizen
Bully prevention, teasing
Unit 208:
Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health
Unit 208:
Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health
Identifying special qualities in self and others
Respecting and having empathy for self and others
How family changes affect feelings
Coping with fear
Real dangers
Helping others
Communicating
Avoiding risky situations
Developing positive character traits
Unit 209:
Environmental and Consumer Health
Unit 209:
Environmental and Consumer Health
Influences on health
Environmental hazards and skin safety
Sun damage and protection
Rules for safe use of food and health care products
Health/safety professionals and their services
Second-hand smoke
Advocacy
Community health helpers
Unit 210:
Physical Fitness
Unit 210:
Physical Fitness
Benefits of exercise on the heart, muscles, and bones
Injury prevention
Muscle control
Safety routines
Rules for safe play
Setting fitness goals
Muscular impairments
Types of physical activities
Fitness pyramid
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