- Standard 7: Students demonstrate observable health and safety practices.
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Observable health and safety practices with the potential to become health and safety habits are essential to both maintaining optimum health and preventing disease and injury.
Observable health and safety practices can be seen and measured in a classroom or school setting. Examples include, but are not limited to, washing hands, flossing and brushing teeth, safely crossing streets, practicing stress management techniques, wearing a bike helmet correctly, measuring heart rate, and selecting a nutrient-dense snack.
This standard also helps students to recognize the importance of incorporating health and safety habits into their daily routines for a lifetime.
Teachers foster students’ confidence, self-efficacy, and skill competence in observable health and safety practices when they:
- Discuss the importance and relevance of health and safety practices.
- Explain that students have the capability of learning health and safety practices.
- Present steps for performing health and safety practices.
- Model health and safety practices.
- Allow time and opportunity for students to demonstrate health and safety practices using real-life scenarios.
- Provide performance-based feedback and reinforcement when demonstrating healthy habits and practices.
7.2.1 Demonstrate age and developmentally appropriate observable health and safety practices.
7.2.2 Reflect on the ability to perform observable health and safety practices.
7.2.3 Explain how health and safety practices can become habits.
7.5.1 Demonstrate age and developmentally appropriate observable health and safety practices.
7.5.2 Reflect on the ability to perform observable practices that promote health and prevent or reduce the risk of disease and injury.
7.5.3 Explain the importance of making health and safety practices into health habits.
7.8.1 Demonstrate age and developmentally appropriate practices that promote health and prevent or reduce the risk of disease and injury.
7.8.2 Assess the ability to perform observable health and safety practices.
7.8.3 Document personal health and safety habits and practices in a variety of settings and situations.
7.8.4 Analyze the impact of making health and safety practices into personal health habits.
7.12.1 Demonstrate age and developmentally appropriate health and safety practices that prevent or reduce the risk of disease and injury and improve quality of life.
7.12.2 the ability to perform observable health and safety practices.
7.12.3 personal health and safety practices in a variety of settings and situations.
7.12.4 Compare the advantages and disadvantages of making health and safety practices into routine and consistent habits.
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