Division of Instruction: Health

Health

Instructional Resources - Health

K-12 Health Philosophical Assumptions

Aurora Public Schools’ health education occurs in multiple arenas. It is essential for students to acquire knowledge and skills that demonstrate healthy attitudes and behaviors. The health curriculum is sequential, age appropriate, comprehensive, and will enable students to become health literate and develop the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices regarding:

Communicable diseases including, but not limited to, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related diseases
Health promotion and disease prevention
Environmental and community health
Health-enhancing skills
Behaviors and risk
Tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use and abuse
Dental health, nutrition and physical fitness
Injury prevention, safety, and emergency care

The student will receive age appropriate instruction on child development, family roles and expectations; and acquire appropriate balance among personal, emotional, mental, and social health. Students will be able to access and evaluate health information and services that are continuously changing, choose abstinence and self-protection.

K-12 Health Standards Continuum

The Aurora Public Schools health proficiency and benchmark system has been revised and represents a compilation of the National Health Education Standards for Students, the Colorado Comprehensive Health Education Act, Colorado Model Content Standards for Science, and the Colorado State statutes. Currently, Colorado does not have state standards for health education.