Grade 1 Health North Carolina standards Standards

Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, and other Drugs

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Interpersonal Communications and Healthy Relationships

Personal and Consumer Health

Mental and Emotional Health

Understand household safety procedures for products and medicines with adult supervision.

Recognize the harmful effects of medicine when used incorrectly.

Recognize how to behave safely with medicines and household cleaners.

Explain the importance of asking a parent, guardian, or trusted adult before handling household products.

Identify strategies for reporting harmful substances.

Recognize healthy and effective interpersonal communications and relationships.

Explain the importance of demonstrating respect for the personal space and boundaries of others.

Describe positive characteristics that are unique to each individual.

Demonstrate how to tell a parent, guardian, or trusted adult when feeling threatened or unsafe.

Recognize that anyone who has experienced bullying or mistreatment is not at fault.

Demonstrate effective refusal skills, including saying no and moving away to enforce personal boundaries for yourself and others.

Identify a parent, guardian, or trusted adult within your home, school and community who can be informed when feeling threatened or harmed.

Understand the connection between healthy expressions of emotions, mental wellness, and healthy behaviors.

Identify appropriate ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Describe how different situations impact emotions and vary among individuals.

Utilize effective communication to express and cope with emotions.

Remember that effort and practice lead to improved skills.

Identify more than one strategy to solve a problem.

Identify resources to get help with solving a problem.

Describe where food and water come from and their importance to the body.

Name the reasons why we need to drink water.

Explore a variety of foods and why it’s important to eat them

Categorize the sources of a variety of foods.

Recognize the benefits of physical activity for the body.

List physical activities that are beneficial to your body.

Describe enjoyable physical activities that can be done inside and outside of school.

List various personal behaviors and practices that promote health and prevent disease.

Explain that germs produce illness and can be spread from one person to another.

Demonstrate measures for preventing the spread of germs.

Summarize the transition between primary and permanent teeth and steps for seeking help for dental problems.

Use appropriate clothing according to the weather.

Understand necessary steps to prevent and respond to unintentional injury.

Identify and describe situations that cause injury.

Identify items that can cause burns and strategies to prevent fire and burn injury.

Execute the Stop, Drop, and Roll response.

Execute an emergency phone call.