2020 Colorado Academic Standards

2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online

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clear Content Area: Comprehensive Health // Grade Level: Kindergarten // Standard Category: 4. Prevention and Risk Management

Comprehensive Health

Kindergarten, Standard 4. Prevention and Risk Management

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More information icon Prepared Graduates:

  • 6. Apply knowledge and skills that promote healthy, violence-free relationships.

More information icon Grade Level Expectation:

1. Explain the importance of respecting the personal space and boundaries of self and others.

More information icon Evidence Outcomes:

Students Can:

  1. Identify "appropriate" and "inappropriate" touches.
  2. Identify characteristics of a trusted adult.
  3. Demonstrate how to tell a parent or trusted adult if inappropriate touching occurs to self or others.
  4. Explain the importance of personal space in the classroom and around others.

More information icon Academic Contexts and Connections:

More information icon Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:

  1. Explore how situations, settings, cultures and individuals have varied rules about personal space. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
  2. Examine how boundaries are applied to nations, cities and people. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
  3. Demonstrate and understanding of why individuals have the right to personal space and boundaries. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Character)
  4. Identify when it is appropriate and demonstrate how to communicate with a trusted adult. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)

More information icon Inquiry Questions:

  1. What is personal space?
  2. Why might one person’s personal space be different from another person’s?
  3. What would it be like if nobody respected anybody else?
  4. What is privacy?
  5. Can verbal comments intrude on your personal space?

More information icon Health Skills:

  1. Accessing Information
  2. Interpersonal Communication

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More information icon Prepared Graduates:

  • 7. Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat injury.

More information icon Grade Level Expectation:

2. Explain safe behavior as a pedestrian and with motor vehicles.

More information icon Evidence Outcomes:

Students Can:

  1. Explain safe behavior when getting on and off and while riding on school buses.
  2. Explain the importance of riding in the back seat and using safety belts and motor vehicle booster seats when one is a passenger in a motor vehicle.
  3. Recognize and describe the meaning of traffic signs.
  4. Describe how rules at school can help to prevent injuries.
  5. Demonstrate safe pedestrian behaviors.

More information icon Academic Contexts and Connections:

More information icon Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:

  1. Examine how crosswalk and traffic signs change based on new research about how children see and react to symbols. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
  2. Identify how vehicles and streets are places with hazards and require careful attention. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
  3. Identify personal strategies can be learned to develop and to avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)

More information icon Inquiry Questions:

  1. What are some things that can happen if everyone runs around and pushes each other?
  2. What would it be like if there weren't any rules for cars or pedestrians?

More information icon Health Skills:

  1. Self-Management/Personal Responsibility

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More information icon Prepared Graduates:

  • 7. Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat injury.

More information icon Grade Level Expectation:

3. Demonstrate effective communication skills in unsafe situations.

More information icon Evidence Outcomes:

Students Can:

  1. Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal ways to ask a parent or trusted adult for help about an unsafe situation.
  2. Describe how to call 911 or other emergency numbers for help.
  3. Define and explain the dangerous use of weapons and how to tell a trusted adult if you see or hear about someone having a weapon.
  4. Identify unsafe or risky situations around the home, school, and community.

More information icon Academic Contexts and Connections:

More information icon Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:

  1. Identify how other forms of technology can be used to communicate in an emergency situation. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
  2. Apply effective communication skills in an emergency situation using both verbal, nonverbal, and various technologies. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
  3. Identify how personal strategies that can be used to develop, avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)

More information icon Inquiry Questions:

  1. What would happen if you were lost and you didn't know how to ask for help?
  2. What would you do if you found a gun?
  3. In addition to a phone, how else could you get help when you are at home? In a car?
  4. Without using words, what are ways you could let someone know you need help?

More information icon Health Skills:

  1. Interpersonal Communication
  2. Self-Management/Personal Responsibility
  3. Accessing Information

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