ALEX Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (3) 12 :

3.4.1) Practice skills needed to develop and maintain personal relationships.

Examples: conflict resolution, role play

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3.4.2) Discuss healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Examples: using appropriate refusal skills, manners, communication

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4.4.1) Demonstrate skills that communicate care, consideration, and respect for self and others.

Examples: parent, school nurse, counselor

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5.7.1) Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

Learn how to teach children ways to manage their feelings and turn them into positive actions, including creating a calm and regulated environment, showing how to manage impulses, and discussing ways to resolve conflicts.

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4.1.2) Compare unhealthy and healthy eating patterns, including eating in moderation.

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4.1.5) Explain how to prevent or control common childhood illnesses and conditions.

Examples: asthma, allergies, diabetes, epilepsy

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4.5.1) Research health-related situations that require a thoughtful decision.

Examples: food choices, drug use, alcohol consumption, smoking

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5.7.1) Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

Leo leads an active life. As a type 1 diabetic, his nutritional needs demand added scrutiny. At every meal, a pump delivers insulin into Leo’s body and a monitor tracks his blood glucose level. Because the body processes nutrients in different ways, Leo analyzes foods for their protein, fat, and carbohydrate contents.

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4.2.2) Explain how media influence thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

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4.8.1) Describe health advocacy strategies.

Examples: writing and recording public service announcements for school or community broadcasts, writing letter or email to editors of local media

[HE] (5) 20 :

5.7.1) Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

In this self-paced lesson, students learn how environmental factors affect the health of living things, including humans. They will view videos, use an interactive activity, and respond to writing prompts to investigate common environmental health hazards, routes of exposure, factors that influence the potential health effects, and ways to reduce exposure.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (4) 20 :

4.7.1) Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain and improve personal health.

Example: planning a daily menu based on the USDA food guidelines

[HE] (5) 20 :

5.7.1) Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

[HE] (6) 3 :

6.1.3) Describe benefits of practicing healthy behaviors.

Examples: using household products only for intended purposes, dietary choices, physical activity, drinking plenty of water

Don’t let the cold prevent you from staying fit. Instead, take advantage of all that winter offers. This article offers tips on how to stay active and healthy during the cold, dreary winter months.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (5) 4 :

5.1.4) Develop strategies and skills used to promote personal hygiene.

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5.7.1) Implement a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Example: executing a plan to manage academic, extracurricular, and family

[HE] (6) 2 :

6.1.2) List ways to reduce or prevent injuries and illness.

Examples: stretching techniques, regular exercise, equipment safety, flu shot, obtaining immunizations against HPV and other conditions

Learn how far coughs, sneezes, and vomit travel, in this episode of Gross Science from NOVA. Scientists can use technology to track the liquids that fly out of noses and mouths and study how far germs can travel. Researchers at MIT used high-speed cameras to reveal that the droplets in a cough or sneeze travel in an invisible gas cloud, which can carry germs much farther than people previously thought.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.