Grades K-3

Some elementary teachers would love to have your support teaching personal hygiene to their students.

A great program on hygiene, called Healthy Kids, Keeping Safe, can be found on Oregon Department of Education’s website.

K-3 students should be able to demonstrate the following benchmarks based on the health education Grade Level Maps from Oregon Department of Education

• Explain ways to prevent communicable and non-communicable disease
• Demonstrate strategies for proper personal health care
• Use the decision making model to make healthy decisions for preventing disease.
• Identify important personal health care practices that prevent the spread of communicable disease (including HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis B and C).
• Develop personal goals to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
• Share strategies for preventing the spread of communicable disease to others.
• Explain why it is important to stay away from potentially unsafe body fluids and objects, including condoms and needles.
• Identify who to talk with at school, home and in the community if you see unsafe objects.

Grades 4-5 Activity #1

Partner with the classroom teacher. Go into the classroom and co-teach understanding of body parts, proper anatomical names, stages in basic growth process.

4th and 5th grade students should be able to demonstrate the following benchmarks based on the health education Grade Level Maps from Oregon Department of Education

• Describe physical, social and emotional changes that occur during puberty
• Identify people in the school or community who could provide valid health information about the changes that occur during puberty
• Identify health practices during puberty.
• Demonstrate proper hygiene practices
• Describe the role of the menstrual cycle
• Describe how conception occurs
• Acknowledge that abstinence is the safest, most effective method of protection from STD/HIV and pregnancy
• Identify influences that encourage young people to be abstinent
• Advocate for choosing abstinence
• Describe gender roles and sexual orientation within healthy sexuality

Grades 4-5 Activity #2

Have students take a trip to the SBHC and learn about the services provided.

Students design a flyer advocating for others to use the clinic.

See below a prompt. A prompt is a well-developed activity that assesses student learning and skills related to a particular Oregon Health Education Standard.

Prompt:
You are a student trying to share the benefits of using your School-Based Health Clinic to a certain audience.

1. Pick your audience (for example- student, parent or community member like a police officer, business owner or politician)
2. Develop a poster or brochure that lists three reasons why they should use your School-Based Health Clinic
3. List three accurate services that your SBHC can offer them
4. Include where the SBHC is located within the school

Facilitator note: Feel free to be flexible and allow students to design these posters or brochures in their native language. Possibly place posters in school hallways and copy and place brochures in places where people will see them, both in the school and out in the community.

Score the posters or brochures using the following performance checklist.