Health Education
Valley Stream
30 is committed to providing our students with learning experience s that
develop a deeper understanding of how their personal health as
well as safe and healthy environments can influence their Social
and emotional development and learning (SEDL). Valley Steam 30’shealth
curriculum uses an integrated approach which integrates health
topics from various programs to make learning more meaningful to students and
allows them to make important health connections between the programs.
Students’ ability to learn about health through these various programs
increases their ability to problem-solve using real-world applications in a
more meaningful way which in turn heightens their health consciousness.
Valley Stream 30 uses the following programs:
Programs
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Grade(s)
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21st Century Learning Modules
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4-5
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Caps Bullying
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3-5
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Emotional Intelligence
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K-6
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Peer Mediation
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K-6
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Physical Education
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K-6
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Planned Parenthood: Puberty Education
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4-5
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Quest: Environmental & Health
Modules
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4-6
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Science 21
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K-6
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Second Step
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K-6
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Superintendent’s Health & Fitness
Newsletter
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K-6
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These various programs provide our students
with lessons and/or activities that align with the New York State Department of
Education’s health curriculum:
Standard 1: Personal Health and Fitness
Students will have the necessary knowledge
and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical
activity, and maintain personal health.
1. Students will understand human growth and
development and recognize the relationship between behaviors and healthy
development. They will understand ways to promote health and prevent disease
and will demonstrate and practice positive health behaviors. Students:
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- know how basic body systems work and interrelate in normal patterns of growth and development
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- possess basic knowledge and skills which support
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- positive health choices and behaviors
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- understand how behaviors such as food selection, exercise, and rest affect growth and development recognize influences which affect health choices and behaviors
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- know about some diseases and disorders and how they are prevented and treated
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- practice and support others in making healthy choices.
Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment.
Students will acquire the knowledge and
ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
1. Students will demonstrate personally and socially responsible
behaviors. They will care for and respect themselves and others. They will
recognize threats to the environment and offer appropriate strategies to
minimize them. Students:
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- understand basic safety rules
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- recognize potentially dangerous situations and know how to avoid or reduce their risk
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- know some personal and social skills which contribute to individual safety
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- recognize characteristics of the environment that contribute to health.
Here are a few of examples of the type of
learning experiences your child will encounter:
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- describe the basic structure and functions of human body systems
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- identify the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
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- Explain how eating nutritionally balanced meals and snacks promotes health
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- describe the physical, social and emotional indicators of healthy people
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- demonstrate the use of interpersonal communication skills to enhance health
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- identify responsible health behaviors and demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal health
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- demonstrate health practices such as washing hands, covering one’s mouth when coughing or sneezing, and brushing and flossing teeth
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- identify common health problems and indicate how they can be prevented, detected and treated_
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- set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.
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- describe personal safety rules to avoid such things as abuse, abduction, poisoning, and accidents
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- discuss how following safety rules help to protect people at home and in the school and community
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- apply safety rules to prevent injury
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- demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations
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- identify ways to care for and show respect for self and others
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- demonstrate refusal skills to protect health
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- identify ways to protect and preserve a healthy environment
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- develop a safety plan for healthy living
Source:
NYSED Physical Education Learning Standards (1996)