Grades 3, 4
Other Wyoming Health Education Content sets
Other Wyoming Health Education Content sets
Health Information, Products and Resources: Students will access, analyze and evaluate health information, products and resources.
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Explain when school and community resources should be accessed for specific health and safety emergencies. IP/S, VP/B, FAMHE4.1.1
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Demonstrate the ability to access trusted resources at school or neighborhood that can help reduce or avoid health risks. CEH, FAM, IP/SHE4.1.2
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Demonstrate the ability to access trusted resources at school or neighborhood that can help enhance health. PH, NUT, CEHHE4.1.3
Problem Solving and Decision Making: Students will use critical thinking and systematic processes to examine health related problems and make decisions that enhance health and reduce or avoid health risks.
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Describe situations or circumstances that help or hinder healthy decision-making. IP/S, VP/B, FAMHE4.2.1
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Explain when assistance is needed for making health related decisions. IP/S, VP/B, CEHHE4.2.2
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Illustrate how health related decisions can affect self and others. FAM, PH, PAHE4.2.3
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Explain steps of a simple decision-making process to enhance health or reduce health risks (e.g., identify a few options and consequences of each option). IP/S, VP/B, ATOD (medicinal drugs)HE4.2.4
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Explain the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision (e.g., options regarding decision to intervene in bullying situation - ask/get beat up). VP/B, IP/S, ATODHE4.2.5
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Describe how peers can influence decisions students make about health practices and risk behaviors. FAM, IP/S, VP/BHE4.2.6
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Describe healthy options to health-related issues or problems (e.g., benefits of recess before and after lunch). PA, NUT, VP/BHE4.2.7
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Explain strategies for solving simple health problems that exist at home and school (e.g., create a poster advocating for washing hands, tell an adult, scientific inquiry process, etc.). PH, IP/S, CEHHE4.2.8
Effective Communication: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and reduce or avoid health risks.
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Describe verbal and nonverbal methods of communication to enhance health or reduce/avoid health risks. FAM, ME, ATODHE4.3.1
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Describe characteristics of effective communication for the purpose of enhancing health or reducing/avoiding health risks. VP/B, PCDHE4.3.2
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Describe refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks. ATOD, VP/B, IP/SHE4.3.3
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Demonstrate the ability to use basic listening skills to enhance health or reduce/avoid health risks (e.g., eye contact, follow the speaker with eyes, stay quiet, wait turn in conversations, etc.). FAM, CEH, MEHE4.3.4
Personal and Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to use personal and social skills that are associated with taking responsible action for enhancing health and reducing or avoiding health risks.
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Explain why specific behaviors help improve or maintain personal health. NUT, PH, IP/SHE4.4.1
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Explain behaviors that help avoid or reduce health risks. ATOD, VP/B, IP/SHE4.4.2
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Explain how specific behaviors prevent the spread of disease. PCD, PH, CEHHE4.4.3
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Describe a range of emotions and the situations that cause them. ME, VP/BHE4.4.4
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Describe and demonstrate the ability to express emotions in a socially acceptable manner (positive ways to express anger, alternatives to violence, etc.). MEHE4.4.5
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Describe criteria for setting personal health goals. PHHE4.4.6
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Set a measurable short-term personal health goal and monitor progress on achieving the goal (e.g., brush teeth two times per day, walk 10,000 steps every day). PA, NUT, IP/SHE4.4.7
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Describe how to work effectively with those who are different from oneself. FAM, VP/BHE4.4.8
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Define bullying and the role of the aggressor in bullying situations. VP/B, MEHE4.4.9
Frequently asked questions
- What grade levels do these standards cover?
- Grade 3 and Grade 4
- When were these standards adopted?
- 2012
- Where can I read the official document?
- Wyoming Health Education Content Standards
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