Grade 5 Health West Virginia standards Standards

Wellness Behaviors

Wellness Information and Service

Wellness Promotion and Disease Prevention

Identify seven dimensions of total wellness (e.g., physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, and occupational).

Analyze and interpret nutritional value food labels.

Identify effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills (e.g., body language, restating, listening).

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid risky behaviors or situations (e.g., drug use, criminal activity, being alone with a stranger, inappropriate digital communication).

Demonstrate assertive responses when asking for help in an emergency.

Set a personal health goal, identify resources to assist in achieving the goal, and track progress toward its achievement.

Distinguish between safe, risky, or harmful relationships and list strategies to reduce threatening situations (e.g., anger management, positive peer-pressure).

Demonstrate techniques for managing stress (e.g., exercising, meditation).

Identify strategies to change unhealthy behaviors.

Describe the importance of proper nutrition and appropriate food choice.

Recognize potentially dangerous situations (e.g., bullying, harassment, drug use, criminal activities) and know how to obtain help.

Identify environmental hazards (e.g., poisonous plants, insect bites/stings, pollution).

Describe precautions and reactions to extreme weather conditions.

Describe how family, peers, community, and culture influence and support personal health practices and behaviors.

Identify legal and illegal drugs.

Discuss ways that technology can have a positive and negative influence on personal health.

Discuss how media may influence future behaviors (e.g., tobacco and alcohol use, violence, relationships).