Last Updated on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 5:01 AM
In Kentucky schools, we will deliver classroom instruction that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of health; develops health knowledge, attitudes, and skills; and is tailored to each age level. It will motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors.
National Health Education Standards - offer a coherent vision of what it means to be health literate. These Standards describe the knowledge and skills essential to the development of health literacy.
Kentucky Curriculum Documents - The Program of Studies for Kentucky Schools Grades Primary-12 helps ensure that all students across the commonwealth are provided with common content and have opportunities to learn at a high level. The Core Content represents the content that has been identified as essential for all students to know and will be included on the state assessment.
PANT Curriculum Map and Units of StudyA curriculum map and twenty standards-based units of study are now available for your use. Kentucky educators, including teachers, university specialists, and school health specialists from all grade levels and regions of the state have spent numerous hours developing these materials. Although we consider these to be outstanding examples in the ...
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PANT Program - Physical Activity Nutrition and TobaccoPhysical activity, nutrition and tobacco (PANT) related behaviors play a major role in the health of many Kentuckians. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), these three modifiable risk factors contribute to nearly seventy percent of the cardiovascular diseases and conditions throughout our Commonwealth. While many of these ...
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