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Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Personal Health and Wellness—ES
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Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Personal Health and Wellness—ES
State law addresses personal health and wellness.
8 New York Codes, Rules and Regulations 135.1 Definitions.
(j) Health education means instruction in the understandings, attitudes and behavior in relation to the several dimensions of health, including but not limited to the misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, the prevention and detection of certain cancers, safety, mental health, nutrition, dental health, sensory awareness, disease prevention and control, environmental and public health, consumer health, first aid, and other health-related areas.
8 New York Codes, Rules and Regulations 135.3 Health education.
(1) ...Personal health guidance shall also be provided according to the individual needs of pupils. This guidance shall include the development of specific habits necessary to maintain good individual and community health. In addition to continued health guidance, provision shall be made in the school program of grades 4-6 for planned units of teaching which shall include health instruction through which pupils may become increasingly self-reliant in solving their own health problems and those of the group. Health education in the elementary school grades shall be taught by the regular classroom teachers.
Guidance Document to Achieving New York State Learning Standard in Health
Personal health and wellness is taught as part of health education.
Learning Standard for Physical Education, Health and Family Consumer Science
Personal health and wellness is taught as part of health education.