Grade 5 Health Michigan standards Standards

Explain how culture, media, and others influence what one thinks about oneself and relationships.

Influences

Describe criteria to determine whether resources provide accurate information about puberty; and apply these criteria to identify valid resources.

Access Information

Describe the functions of basic male and female reproductive anatomy.

Describe the menstrual cycle and its potential for human reproduction.

Describe how sperm cells are produced.

Define the functions of sperm and egg cells in human reproduction.

Define and identify basic male and female reproductive anatomy using scientific names.

Explain physical changes that occur during puberty (e.g., body hair, body odor, voice, body shape, strength, hormones, and menstruation).

Explain emotional changes during puberty (e.g., mood shifts).

Explain social changes during puberty (e.g., changes in friendships, crushes/attractions, and changing expectations of parents/adults).

Explain that males and females develop at different rates, and there are wide variations within each sex.

Core Concepts

Growth and Development

Describe ways people can protect themselves from infection with serious blood borne communicable diseases, including not touching blood, not touching used needles, and not having sex.

Health Behaviors

Describe how HIV is and is not transmitted.

Explain that it is safe to be a friend of someone who is living with HIV or AIDS.

Define HIV and AIDS.

Core Concepts

HIV Prevention

Develop a plan to keep the body clean.

Goal Setting

Analyze media influences related to hygiene products.

Influences

Analyze the physical, emotional, mental, and social importance of keeping the body clean.

Core Concepts

Personal Health and Wellness

Advocate for a caring school environment.

Advocacy

Apply the steps of conflict resolution to a real or hypothetical situation.

Demonstrate how to communicate assertively.

Demonstrate effective listening strategies.

Social Skills

Demonstrate making a decision or solving a problem using criteria to evaluate solutions.

Explain the decision making and problem solving steps.

Describe the characteristics of people who can help make decisions and solve problems.

Decision Making

Set a personal goal and plan the steps necessary to achieve the goal.

Goal Setting

Demonstrate the ability to manage harassment, including getting help from a trusted adult.

Demonstrate strategies to avoid situations that might lead to trouble.

Predict situations that might lead to trouble, including violence.

Demonstrate strategies to manage strong feelings.

Health Behaviors

Describe how to get help from an adult when someone is in danger of hurting self or others.

Access Information

Describe the harmful impact of harassing behaviors to both the perpetrator and the victim.

Core Concepts

Social and Emotional Health

Demonstrate strategies to get away in cases of inappropriate touching or abduction.

Social Skills

Develop plans to stay safe when home alone and in public places.

Goal Setting

Apply strategies to be safe in the sun and when around water and ice.

Apply strategies to avoid personally unsafe situations.

Analyze situations to predict safety hazards when home alone and in public places.

Health Behaviors

Demonstrate how to ask a trusted adult for help.

Access Information

Describe hazards related to sun, water, and ice.

Explain that a child is not at fault if someone touches him or her in an inappropriate way.

Describe the characteristics of appropriate and inappropriate touch.

Explain the importance of respecting personal space and boundaries.

Core Concepts

Safety

Demonstrate verbal and non-verbal ways to refuse tobacco, alcohol, inhalant, and other drug use.

Social Skills

Analyze the positive and negative choices one can make about using tobacco and alcohol.

Decision Making

Analyze how families and peers may influence choices about using tobacco and inhalants.

Explain how decisions about alcohol and tobacco use will impact relationships with friends and family.

Analyze the accuracy of information conveyed in the media about tobacco use.

Influences

Apply strategies to avoid riding with an impaired driver.

Apply effective strategies to avoid exposure to inhalants.

Health Behaviors

Describe how use of alcohol and other drugs impairs safe driving.

Explain school policies and community laws related to the sale and use of tobacco products.

Compute the economic cost of tobacco use.

Recognize that it is hard to stop using tobacco.

Describe health benefits of abstaining from or stopping tobacco use.

Describe the short- and long- term physical effects of using tobacco and inhalants.

Describe poison safety rules for household products.

Core Concepts

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Plan a meal using specific criteria such as fat, carbohydrate, fiber, calcium, and calorie content of foods.

Choose a snack using specific criteria such as fat, carbohydrate, fiber, calcium, and calorie content of foods.

Health Behaviors

Interpret information provided on food labels.

Access Information

Explain the importance of choosing water rather than other beverages for the purpose of keeping the body hydrated.

Identify calcium and vitamin D intake and physical activity as protectors from developing osteoporosis.

Describe guidelines to follow for healthy eating.

Describe the essential nutrients the body needs to stay healthy.

Core Concepts

Nutrition and Physical Activity