Standards-aligned learning objectives that focus on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can understand that health knowledge helps them stay safe, healthy, and well.

✅ Students can recognize when they don’t understand health concepts.

✅ Students can identify trusted sources of health information like adults, books, and observations.

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 Use sorting, matching, and sequencing games to introduce and reinforce basic health concepts.

🔎 Create playdough mats for body systems and other models of health concepts

🔎 Read picture books that introduce key health topics and discuss what the characters learned.

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 My Healthy Life Comic
Students create a short comic strip that highlights key health concepts related to one dimension of health (like physical health). Their story should include everyday practices such as getting enough sleep, eating nutritious foods, staying active, drinking water, and washing hands. This shows how they understand and can apply basic functional health knowledge.

Standards-aligned learning objectives that focus on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can use the IDEA skill cue (Identify, Discover, Explore, Apply) to build and apply health knowledge.

✅ Students can recognize when they have a knowledge gap and need more information.

✅ Students can find accurate health information with guidance and begin applying it in real-life situations.

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 Start with a matching activity to introduce the IDEA skill cue and help students connect each step to real-world actions.

🔎 Provide scenario cards where students identify knowledge gaps, discuss what they’d need to learn, and where they might find that information.

🔎 Create a sorting activity where students evaluate different sources of health information and separate them into “valid” and “not valid” piles.

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 IDEA Skill Cue Scenario Response: Present students with a health-related scenario selected by the teacher. Students will walk through the IDEA process (Identify, Discover, Explore, Apply) to show how they identify what they know, recognize knowledge gaps, seek information, and apply it to the situation.

Standards-aligned learning objectives that focus on building health skill proficiency and strengthening students’ health literacy through real-world application.

✅ Students can independently use the IDEA skill cue to find and apply health knowledge in real-world situations.

✅ Students can evaluate what they already know, identify gaps, and seek out reliable information.

✅ Students can apply functional health knowledge to make informed, practical decisions that support their well-being.

Hands-on, engaging teaching activities that give students opportunities to practice each health skill in realistic, relevant ways.

🔎 Character Analysis with IDEA: Choose a fictional character (from a novel, film, or show) and analyze a health-related situation they face. Use the IDEA skill cue (Identify, Discover, Explore, Apply) to uncover what the character knew, what they didn’t, and how having better functional knowledge could have changed their choices or outcomes.

🔎 Functional Knowledge Scavenger Hunt: Send students on a “real life” scavenger hunt, either around the school, through media, or their own lives, to spot where functional health knowledge shows up. Have them document where it was used well, where it was missing, and what impact it had.

🔎 Scenario Deep Dive: Use complex, realistic scenarios (e.g., navigating nutrition misinformation, making a health care decision, supporting a friend in crisis) where students identify knowledge gaps, research trustworthy information, and decide how to apply what they’ve learned to the situation.

Standards-based assessment measures students' health literacy and their ability to apply the health skills in a real-life scenario, demonstrating both their understanding of the health skill and their capacity to use it to manage their health.

📚 “Did You Know?” PSA Poster: Students identify a common health knowledge gap among their peers and create a visually engaging PSA poster to display around school. The poster should include clear, accurate, and relevant functional health information and be designed to connect with and inform their specific audience.

📚 Personal IDEA Reflection: Students reflect on a real-life situation where they recognized a gap in their own health knowledge. Using the IDEA skill cue (Identify, Discover, Explore, Apply), they describe what they realized they needed to learn, how they found trustworthy information, and how they are applying this knowledge to their daily life or decisions.