Grade 2 Health Washington Standards

Understand how to create a balanced meal.

Describe how each food group contributes to a healthy body.

Understand importance of eating meals throughout the day.

Identify benefits of drinking recommended intake of water.

Identify healthy eating patterns that provide energy and help the body grow and develop.

Understand that food choices can put individuals at risk for some health problems.

Identify safety hazards in the community.

Describe bicycle, pedestrian, and transportation safety rules.

Describe emergency, fire, and safety plans at home and at school.

Understand importance of avoiding weapons when unsupervised.

Recognize local emergency alert system.

Identify people who can help when someone is injured or suddenly ill.

Describe safety rules to follow in a disaster.

Describe different types of violence and abuse.

Identify healthy and unhealthy group characteristics.

Use medically accurate names for body parts, including external reproductive anatomy.

Understand physical changes are part of growth and development.

Understand living things can reproduce.

Understand there is a range of gender roles and expression.

Understand importance of treating others with respect regarding gender expression.

Identify characteristics and benefits of healthy friendships.

Explain why unwanted touches should be reported to a trusted adult.

Identify personal strengths and challenges.

Recognize that practice develops confidence.

Understand body size, shape, and appearance are partially determined by genetics.

Identify causes of stress.

Describe stress management techniques.

Understand relationship between emotions and behaviors.

Define bystanders and interveners related to bullying.

Understand differences between prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, and harmful drugs.

Understand commonly used terms for tobacco and alcohol.

Understand effects of tobacco and alcohol.

Demonstrate refusal skills in different situations.

Identify benefits of being tobacco- and alcohol-free.

Describe what it means to be healthy.

Describe benefits of hygiene practices.

Understand bacteria and viruses are types of germs.

Describe differences between communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Identify how family, school, and community influence food and beverage choices and eating behaviors.

Understand how media influences health decisions and behaviors.

Identify purpose of a Nutrition Facts label.

Identify characteristics of valid health information and services.

Describe healthy ways for family members and friends to express feelings toward each other.

Demonstrate how to tell trusted adults about unwanted touch until action is taken.

Demonstrate appropriate ways to express emotions.

Describe how to use refusal skills when offered non-prescribed medicine or harmful drugs.

Demonstrate active listening skills to enhance communication.

Identify skills for assertive communication.

Recognize decision-making or refusal skills that could help when making food choices.

Identify healthy options for making a health-related decision.

Describe steps to achieve a personal health goal.

Identify strategies to intervene safely when someone is being bullied or teased.

Safety

Food Groups and Nutrients

Violence Prevention

Prevention

Sexual Health

Use and Abuse

Disease Prevention

Communication

Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying

Caloric Intake and Expenditure

Body Image

Hygiene

Analyzing Influences

Access Valid Information

Disease Prevention

Healthy Relationships

Label Literacy

Substance Use and Abuse

Reproduction

First Aid

Growth and Development

Decision-Making

Anatomy and Physiology

Effects

Injury Prevention

Expressing Emotions

Goal-Setting

Nutrition

Self-Esteem

Self-Identity

Social Emotional Health

Nutritional Planning

Wellness

Beverages

Stress Management

Dimensions of Health

Catch

Health-Related Fitness

Pathways, Levels, and Relationships

Strike, Long Implement

Benefit of Physical Activity

Receiving and Providing Feedback

Body Systems

Students will recognize the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.

Balance

Strategies

Overhand Throw

Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

Strike/Volley, Hands and Arms

Students will demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Personal Responsibility

Hand Dribble

Safety

Weight Transfer

Nonlocomotor

Foot Pass/Kick

Engagement in Physical Activity

Foot Dribble

Locomotor

Foot Trap/Receive

Rhythm

Strike, Short Implement

Underhand Throw

Social Interaction

Engagement in Fitness Activities

Rules and Etiquette

Students will apply knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance.

Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

Working with Others

Nutrition

Space

Self-Expression and Enjoyment

Speed, Direction, and Force

Challenge

Demonstrate mature pattern in locomotor skills in isolation (skip).

Demonstrate a sequence of locomotor skills, transitioning smoothly from one skill to another.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while passing and kicking along the ground with the inside of the foot to a target or stationary partner.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while passing and kicking a moving ball with the inside of the foot.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while receiving with the non-preferred foot when stationary.

Demonstrate mature pattern while foot-dribbling with both feet at a slow speed.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while striking an object upward continuously with an open palm or forearms.

Demonstrate mature pattern while striking an object upward continuously with a short-handled implement.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while striking a ball off a tee with a lightweight bat.

emerging pattern while striking an object with a long-handled implement to a target.

Demonstrate a sequence of nonlocomotor skills, transitioning smoothly from one skill to another.

Demonstrate static balance on different bases of support, combining levels and shapes.

Demonstrate weight transfer from feet to different bases of support for static or dynamic balance.

Demonstrate rhythmic skills combining locomotor, nonlocomotor, and manipulative skills.

Demonstrate mature pattern in an underhand throw for distance.

Demonstrate mature pattern in an underhand throw to a large, stationary target.

Demonstrate emerging pattern in an overhand throw using different sizes and types of objects.

Demonstrate mature pattern while catching a large ball that is self-tossed or tossed by a skilled thrower.

Demonstrate mature pattern while hand-dribbling continuously in self-space with preferred hand.

Demonstrate emerging pattern while hand-dribbling continuously in self-space using non-preferred hand.

Demonstrate safe movement in personal space in a variety of increasingly complex activities.

Demonstrate combinations of pathways, levels, and relationships in simple travel sequences.

Demonstrate concepts of speed, direction, and force using locomotor skills.

Understand strategies in chasing and fleeing activities.

Identify benefits of being physically active.

Actively engage in physical education class.

Recognize components of health-related fitness (cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, body composition).

Identify locations to palpate pulse rate.

Participate in developmentally appropriate activities to improve overall fitness.

Recognize structure and function of the circulatory and respiratory system (lungs help with breathing).

Understand how to create a balanced meal.

Describe how each food group contributes to a healthy body.

Exhibit responsibility in teacher-directed activities.

Accept responsibility and consequences for following rules and protocols.

Demonstrate listening respectfully to feedback from peers.

Demonstrate working with others in partner environments.

Demonstrate conflict resolution skills.

Apply safety principles in physical activities (with self, with peers, with equipment).

Recognize that perseverance in physical activities can lead to improvement.

Describe reasons for enjoying physical activity.

Understand that physical activities can foster cooperation.