Grade 2 Health Maryland Standards

Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health, including:

Mental and Emotional Health

Demonstrate a variety of strategies to express and manage emotions.

Describe a variety of personal emotions and the ways the body signals these emotions.

Describe how others may be feeling based on verbal and nonverbal cues and respond in a healthy way.

Recognize personal strengths in the context of different roles or relationships.

Describe healthy and rewarding social interactions.

Explain why it is hurtful to tease or bully others and what to do if someone is bullied.

Explain the importance of talking with trusted adults about emotions and concerns.

Substance Abuse Prevention

Explain how to use medicine correctly.

Describe the harmful effects of using medicine incorrectly.

Identify alcohol, nicotine, and electronic smoking devices.

Identify family and school rules about alcohol, nicotine use, and electronic smoking devices.

Family Life and Human Sexuality

Explain why it is important to respect different kinds of families (e.g., single-parent, same-gender, intergenerational, cohabitating, adoptive, foster).

Describe healthy family and peer relationships.

Demonstrate appropriate actions when someone says or does something that does not respect your personal boundaries.

Practice communicating personal boundaries.

Demonstrate ways to treat people of all gender identities and expressions with dignity and respect.

Safety and Violence Prevention

Identify ways to reduce injuries from firearms, falls, and fire.

Explain how familiar people or people in authority can help or harm children.

Identify appropriate interactions with community helpers (e.g., nurses, teachers, police officers, and crossing guards) in roles that help children.

Demonstrate what to do when asked to keep an uncomfortable secret.

Explain the importance of sharing all information with parents, guardians, or trusted adults.

Practice telling trusted adults about feelings.

Explain appropriate boundaries when using technology and the internet.

Demonstrate age-appropriate privacy as well as setting and respecting healthy boundaries while using technology and face-to-face.

Identify parts of the body that are private on self or others.

Explain that it is never a person’s fault if someone causes them to feel unsafe.

Describe how to safely ride a bike, a skateboard, a scooter, and inline skates.

Identify ways to reduce the risk of injuries while riding in a motor vehicle.

Identify ways to reduce injuries as a pedestrian

Identify safety procedures to follow if in the presence of a firearm.

Model actions that help one to stay safe around strangers.

Describe actions that help one to stay safe around familiar people.

Identify words and actions that appropriately express affection/positive feelings toward trusted adults and other important people.

Model ways to tell someone when feeling unsafe.

Healthy Eating

Describe the benefits of drinking water versus other beverages.

Explain the benefits of trying new foods and respecting the food choices of others.

Explain the importance of choosing nutritious foods and beverages from different food groups.

Describe how different food groups work together to help us feel hungry or full.

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

Describe how eating breakfast helps a person think, work, and play.

Describe the concept of moderation and the idea that “all foods fit.”

Disease Prevention and Control

Describe potential causes and symptoms of allergic reactions.

Identify basic universal precautions.

Explain why hygiene is important to health.

Identify food safety strategies that can control germs that cause foodborne illness.

Explain how to protect one’s skin and other parts of the body from the sun.

Describe why sleep and rest are important for proper growth and good health.

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors.

Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors.

Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.

Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.

Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening or dangerous situation.

Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if one is threatened or harmed.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed.

Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually and when assistance is needed.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal.

Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Make requests to promote personal health.

Encourage peers to make positive health choices.

Moderation and “all foods fit.”

Self and social awareness

Eating patterns

Safety around people

Emotions

Teeth

Compassion for victims

Trusted adult

Healthy relationships and consent

Private parts

Medicine

Hygiene

Alcohol and nicotine

Sleep

Household products

Gender identity and expression

Boundaries and consent

Disease prevention

Disease

Trusted adults

Sun

Relationships

Technology safety

Food and illness

Physical safety

Relationships

Nutritious foods and beverages

Teasing, bullying, and harassment