List of Benchmarks for Health |
| Standard 7. | Knows how to maintain and promote personal health |
| | Level Pre-K (Grade Pre-K) |
| | 1. | Performs personal hygiene skills independently (e.g., uses toilet, brushes teeth, washes hands, blows nose) |
| | 2. | Dresses self appropriately (e.g., puts on coat and hat, laces shoes) |
| | Level I (Grade K-2) |
| | 1. | Knows basic personal hygiene habits required to maintain health (e.g., caring for teeth, gums, eyes, ears, nose, skin, hair, nails) |
| | Level II (Grade 3-5) |
| | 1. | Understands the influence of rest, food choices, exercise, sleep, and recreation on a person's well-being |
| | 2. | Knows common health problems that should be detected and treated early |
| | 3. | Knows behaviors that are safe, risky, or harmful to self and others |
| | 4. | Sets a personal health goal and makes progress toward its achievement |
| | 5. | Knows that making health-related decisions and setting health goals sometimes requires asking for assistance |
| | 6. | Knows the basic structure and functions of the human body systems (e.g., how they are interrelated; how they function to fight disease) |
| | Level III (Grade 6-8) |
| | 1. | Knows personal health strengths and risks (e.g., results of a personal health assessment) |
| | 2. | Knows how positive health practices and appropriate health care can help to reduce health risks (e.g., good personal hygiene, health screenings, self-examinations) |
| | 3. | Knows strategies and skills that are used to attain personal health goals (e.g., maintaining an exercise program, making healthy food choices) |
| | 4. | Understands how changing information, abilities, priorities, and responsibilities influence personal health goal |
| | 5. | Knows how health is influenced by the interaction of body systems |
| | Level IV (Grade 9-12) |
| | 1. | Knows how personal behaviors relate to health and well-being and how these behaviors can be modified if necessary to promote achievement of health goals throughout life (e.g., following a personal nutrition plan to reduce the risk of disease, periodically self-assessing physical fitness) |
| | 2. | Understands the short- and long-term consequences of safe, risky, and harmful behaviors |
| | 3. | Understands how personal health needs change during the life cycle |
| | 4. | Understands the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems |
