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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 Kindergarten are listed below.
Great Body Shop Units
Injury Prevention and Personal Safety
Injury Prevention and Personal Safety
Safety rules and helpers
Effect of no rules
Where injuries happen
Safety awards
Routines for fire, storms, floods; decision-making; emergencies
Safe and unsafe play
Personal safety
Refusal skills
Who to trust
Safe and unsafe touches
Nutrition
Nutrition
Healthful food choices
Safe food handling
Cultural, familial, and individual preferences
Goals for healthful eating
Decision-making for a healthful diet
Food needs of living things
Healthful vs. unhealthful
Variety
Meal plans
Healthful breakfast
Food groups
Functions of the Body
Functions of the Body
Functions of and care routines for the five senses
Responsibility
Empathy
Practicing being helpful
Heeding body signals
How senses protect you
Predicting effects of sense impairment
Respecting self and others
Responsible self care
Self awareness
Impact of drugs on the body
Growth and Development/
Cycles of Family Life
Growth and Development/
Cycles of Family Life
Defining family and team
Identifying love, trust, and caring
Family similarities and differences
Growing and changing
A special person at every stage
Family rules and jobs
Consequences of no rules
Comparing and contrasting different bodies
Self awareness
Self management
Social awareness of differences
Disease and Illness Prevention
Disease and Illness Prevention
What doctors, dentists, nurses, and others do
Responsibility for following directions when sick
MD’s & dentist’s tools
Knowing emergency phone numbers
Good hygiene
Decision-making
When and what not to share
Defining sick
Showing concern
Medicine rules
Communicable and non-communicable diseases
Substance Abuse Prevention
Substance Abuse Prevention
Defining drugs and medicines
Knowing the importance of saying no
Identifying dangerous substances
Practicing identifying different drugs (tobacco, alcohol)
Following drug safety rules
Drugs vs. non-drugs
Drug effects
Where to go for help
Refusal skills
Predicting consequences
Medicine rules
Community
Health and Safety
(Violence Prevention)
Community
Health and Safety
(Violence Prevention)
How to define community
Community helpers
How being a responsible citizen helps your community
Rules and laws
Unsafe and violent actions
Safety routines to avoid violence and danger
Bully prevention
Social awareness
Conflict resolution
Decision making
Respect for community helpers
Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health
Self Worth, Mental and Emotional Health
Identifying personal talents, qualities, and feelings
Methods of communication
Respecting self and others
Helping others
Setting goals
Using refusal skills
Locating trusted adults
Talking about feelings
Making friends
Positive character traits
Self management of emotions
Environmental and Consumer Health
Environmental and Consumer Health
How to identify healthy and clean communities
Good citizenship
Routines for a clean environment
Types of pollution
How to identify health care professionals and services
Safety rules for medicines and health care products
Influences on health
Advocacy for clean communities
How to access health services and products
Media influences
Physical Fitness
Physical Fitness
Choosing heart healthy activities
Physical activity guidelines
Benefits of exercise on heart and muscles
Safety routines for physical activity
Organized and after school play
Good sportsmanship
Goals for fitness
Types of physical activities
Fitness pyramid
Predicting consequences
Additional Resources
Where to go for additional information and support
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