Fifth Grade Health

The overall goal of health is to introduce students to basic knowledge and skills needed to establish healthy living habits and personal healthcare, and to recognize the availability of community health providers. Health education in kindergarten through eighth grade includes both a personal and community approach to health care. Fifth grade health focuses on the connection between personal choices, habits, and the effect on their general health.

Students will:

• describe how the entire body is affected by personal health care.
• describe how weight can be controlled with physical fitness and exercise.
• describe how to make good decisions regarding personal, social, and emotional health.
• give examples of how media reports influence the knowledge people have about health and how it can keep people from learning the facts about health issues.
• describe how pollution affects our natural resources and the health of or community.
• compare the reproductive changes that occur during puberty and the emotions that can occur.