First Grade Curriculum Resources

Standard of Learning

1.5 The student will identify the health care providers and agencies that influence personal health. Key concepts/skills include:

the role of community health care professionals;
the purpose of community health care agencies

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Understanding the Standard

The student will identify and describe the role of health care providers.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

identify community health care professionals. (emergency medical technicians, public health doctors and nurses, etc.)
explain the role of community health care professionals. (counselors help individuals and families communicate better with one another, public health doctors or nurses give you vaccines, etc.)

Sample Lessons

Oral Health Education: Saving Smiles Series- “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”
Grade: 1
Lesson Plan (1) Identify the functions of healthy teeth. (SOL 1.1b)
Lesson Plan (2) Demonstrate correct toothbrushing techniques for young children. (SOL 1.2a)
Lesson Plan (3) Demonstrate safe toothpaste use and proper toothbrush storage. (SOL 1.2a)
Lesson Plan (4) Identify nutritious meals, snack foods and beverages to improve general and oral health. (SOL 1.2f)
Lesson Plan (5) Identify the oral health professionals met during a dental visit. (SOL 1.5a and b)
Lesson Plan (6) Follow school safety rules during activities to avoid dental and facial injuries. (SOL 1.3a, b, c and h; SOL 1.6a, b and c)
Sponsor: Virginia Department of Health, Division of Dental Health
Contact: http://www.vahealth.org/teeth/OralHealthEducation.asp (curriculum resources)
Free

You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover
The objective of this activity is to have students learn that how something is packaged is not necessarily the way it really is. It is very important for children of this age to know whom to trust and how to receive the real, accurate message regarding something they are going to do, buy, or support. Learning to question the truth of messages sent to children this age can often be a first step to understanding that questioning first is better than wishing you had questioned after action was taken.
Sponsor: American Council for Drug Education
Contact: http://www.acde.org/educate/k3plan1.htm
Free

Lesson Ideas

Students learn about community through a (walking) tour followed by guided discussion. Students then make a cover for a book they will create about their community.
Students learn about the police officer's role in their community by talking with an officer who visits the class or by taking a tour of a police station. Students write a sentence and draw a picture describing what they learned to place in their community books.
Students learn about the firefighter's role in their community by talking with a firefighter who visits their class or by taking a tour of a firestation. Students write a sentence and draw a picture describing the firefighter's role in the community.
Students discuss their experience with nurses - what they do and why. Students write a descriptive sentence and draw a picture depicting the nurses role to place in their community book.

Additional Instructional Resources

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

list at least three health care providers that help people live healthy lives.
explain the role of three community health care professions.

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