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Content Area 5: Family Living & Healthy Sexuality

Standard 1: Comprehend health promotion and disease prevention concepts.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • define family and identify various family structures;
  • identify the stages of growth that occur during the life cycle;
  • describe the influences of the family on personal health and disease prevention;
  • identify responsibilities of family members to each other;
  • identify abstinence from sexual activity as the expected and healthiest behavior for school-aged children.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts and Science.

Grade Focus: 3rd - 5th

This lesson is the second of a two-part series aimed at introducing students to the different stages of growth and development in human beings from birth to 18 years of age. In these lessons, students become familiar with the four key periods of growth and human development. This site provides links to literature such as brochures that teachers and students can read. This lesson also includes a variety of assessment questions for review and reinforcement. The teacher may pose questions that help students further apply what they have learned.

Standard 2: Access valid health information, products, and services.

  • identify and access valid information and services that promote healthy family living
  • identify school and community resources that can help families with health and social problems.

Lesson can be integrated with Science.

Grade Focus: 3rd - 5th

In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the concept of global interdependence by investigating the origins of the foods they eat. Students will recognize the fact that many of the foods they eat, and the ingredients that go into making them, are produced in other countries. They will speculate about why certain foods are produced in different regions of the world, and what might happen if the production and/or distribution of these goods was to stop. There are great links that provide valid sources of literature.

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Standard 3: Demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that enhance health and reduce risks.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • demonstrate the ability to use self-management skills in family relationships;
  • apply appropriate strategies that contribute a healthy family;
  • demonstrate coping strategies for dealing with change within the family (e.g., birth, death, divorce, illness);
  • explain when and where to ask for assistance in harmful or abusive situations.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts and Social Studies.

Grade Focus: 3rd - 5th

More than 1 million American children experience divorce each year. This lesson is aimed at a small group of elementary students facing divorce and separation to help them discuss their fears and concerns with trusted adults. Students will describe current changes in their family relationships. Students will understand that divorce or separation does not mean that adults stop caring for children. Students will learn that family ties and functions remain even though family structure and living arrangements may change. Students will read alone, or as a group, a selected story about separation or divorce. Students will illustrate, write, or talk about changes facing their families, such as moving households, sharing child custody, living with new family members, and changing schools.

Standard 4: Analyze the influence of personal beliefs, culture, mass media, technology, and other factors on health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • identify how the culture influences family beliefs, roles, and relationships in regard to health
  • identify how mass media and technology influence decision-making that affects personal and family health.

Lesson can be integrated with Social Studies and Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 4th - 5th

The purpose of the activity is to have students within a small team get to know each other by sharing cultural traditions which make their families unique. This activity shows that all families are different, and it's okay to be different. Students will hear how different families treat family members when inflicted with a cold or flu. This lesson allows students to share what they have learned from their families and creates an awareness of cultural diversity.

Standard 5: Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • recognize verbal and nonverbal communication skills from examples
  • demonstrate the ability to use positive communication skills with parents, family members, and peers.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 5th

Students coming from single-parent and divorced families, and even students who live in traditional families, face major changes in the family. Divorce, illness, death, birth and remarriage can cause stress and confusing feelings. Encouraging children to talk to trusted adults and friends about feelings and worries can help assuage fears and work out problems. This activity shows students how hard it can be to accomplish a common goal (such as a healthy family) without communication.

Standard 6: Use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • describe the steps of responsible decision-making with peers and within the family;
  • set a goal and develop a plan for personal responsibility within the family and track its progress;
  • identify the benefits of delaying sexual activity and avoiding parenthood until marriage.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 2nd - 4th

In this lesson, students will learn how to cope with some of the common changes that take place in families. This lesson provides the teacher with a transparency to use in the classroom. The teacher and students will: identify various family types and life roles and explain how those roles impact personal goals; describe the importance of balancing a career, a family, and leisure activities; recognize how individual responsibilities at home contribute to the family's well being; and examine the impact of career choices on family lifestyles and family economics.

Standard 7: Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

  • demonstrate ways to influence and support others in promoting personal and community family health.

Lesson can be integrated with Social Studies.

Grade Focus: 1st - 4th

This lesson gets students involved in the connection of peace with community. Students will collaborate and provide solutions for a more peaceable classroom environment. They will create a chart with ideas and discuss a caring community. Students can also click here to view valuable information on diversity, prejudices, and respect provided by Kids Health. Students can become aware of interesting facts and learn more about the “melting pot” while displaying respect.

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