Elementary School Instruction

Salem-Keizer Public Schools serve approximately 17,000 students in 42 K-5 elementary schools and two charter schools.

At each of our schools, reading is emphasized as the foundation for all subjects a child will study. Salem-Keizer is dedicated to ensuring every student reads at grade level by third grade, recognizing that strong early literacy skills are crucial for long-term academic success. To support this goal, principals and teachers carefully structure the school day to prioritize uninterrupted literacy instruction, giving young readers the best possible start in their educational journey.

The elementary school core curriculum focuses on the basics of reading, speaking, listening, language, writing, English language development, math, science, social studies, and health. Our elementary schools also provide instruction in socio-emotional learning, music and physical education. The scope and sequence for these content areas is based on the state standards.

Learn More about Oregon State Standards

• Literacy Standards
• Math Standards
• Science Standards
• Social Science Standards
• Health Standards
• English Language Development Standards
• CASEL Socio-Emotional Learning Competencies

Please visit the following links to learn more about the materials Salem-Keizer elementary schools use for core instruction:

• Language Arts: ReadyGen - ReadyGEN is an integrated and well-balanced approach to reading and writing instruction for grades K-6.
• Math: ReadyMathematics
• Science: Mystery Science
• Social-Emotional Learning: Sanford Harmony, Second Steps, and The Toolbox Project
• Health: The Great Body Shop and Fight! Child Abuse

Our elementary schools offer the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) to establish positive school cultures. This is a framework that schools can tailor to meet the needs of their communities to help create safe, positive and caring school cultures.

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to kindergarten, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out of lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• Kindergarten Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• Kindergarten Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• Kindergarten Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• Kindergarten Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• Kindergarten Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Fight! Child Abuse Prevention
  • Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
  • Lesson 2: It Doesn’t Matter Who it Is
  • Lesson 3: Stranger Safety
  • Lesson 4: Review of Protect Yourself Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safety rules for the home, the school, and the community.
• Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching.
• Explain that everyone has the right to tell others not to touch his or her body.
• Identify people who are strangers and how to avoid contact with strangers.
• Role-play what to do if a stranger at home, in a car, or on the street approaches you.
• Demonstrate how to ask a trusted grown-up for help or call 9-1-1.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• K.HRP.1 - Define what a relationship is and identify different kinds of relationships. 
• K.HRP.2 - Understand that all people have the right to feel safe and free from bullying and violence.
• K.HRP.4 -  Define what a personal boundary is and recognize that personal boundaries differ in different kinds of relationships and for different people. 
• K.HRP.5 - Discuss how to use words to communicate needs and boundaries, and how to listen to the needs of others. 
• K.HRP.6 - Describe the characteristics of a trusted adult.
• K.HRP.8 - Understand that it is never okay to touch someone without their permission. 
• K.HRP.9 -  Identify that abuse is never a child’s fault and discuss how to communicate personal boundaries and report unsafe or unwanted touch. 
• K.GD.1 - Discuss different types of family structures and why all families deserve respect. 
• K.GD.2 -  Identify ways in which human bodies are the same and different from each other, and how bodies change over time.
• K.GD.3 - Name reproductive body parts, using medically accurate terminology. 

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Winter Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 4: The Family Team 
  • Lesson 1: What is a Family?

Lesson Objectives:

• Define the words family and team.
• Identify the elements of love, trust, and caring in families.
• Compare a family to a team.
• Describe the process of growing in a family from a baby to an adult.
• Discuss how you are a “special person” at every stage of your life.
• Identify ways to control anger when changes are necessary.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• K.GD.1 - Discuss different types of family structures and why all families deserve respect. 

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Spring Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 8: Getting Sick
  • Lesson 1: What does it mean to be Healthy?

Lesson Objectives:

• Define being healthy.
• Explain why you want to be healthy.
• Make a list of at least three things you need to do to stay as healthy as possible.
• Use the Decision Making Skill Steps to make healthful choices about daily routines.
• Discover what germs are and how they make us sick.
• Tell why it is important to you to stay well.
• Practice proper hygiene to help avoid getting sick.
• Compare and contrast being well and being sick.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• K.WHP.2 - Identify illnesses that are easily transmitted and illnesses that are not.  

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to first grade, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out of lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• First Grade Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• First Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• First Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• First Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• First Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Unit 2: Head to Toe
  • Lesson 4: My body is extra special

Lesson Objectives:

• Discover your own body’s uniqueness and your own special talents.
• Respect the differences in different people.
• Practice looking for special qualities in others.
• Compare and contrast features.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 1.HRVP.3 - Discuss the ways that all people are unique and valuable and have a right to be treated with dignity and respect and be free from bullying and violence. 

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Fight! Child Abuse Prevention

• Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
• Lesson 2: It Doesn’t Matter Who it Is
• Lesson 3: Stranger Safety
• Lesson 4: Review of Protect Yourself Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safety rules for the home, the school, and the community.
• Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching.
• Explain that everyone has the right to tell others not to touch his or her body.
• Identify people who are strangers and how to avoid contact with strangers
• Role-play what to do if a stranger at home, in a car, or on the street approaches you.
• Demonstrate how to ask a trusted grown-up for help or call 9-1-1.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 1.GD.2 - Identify medically accurate names for sexual and reproductive anatomy.
• 1.GD.3 - Discuss that there are many ways that people can express love and attraction.
• 1.HRVP.2 - Demonstrate healthy ways for friends to express feelings, both physically and verbally. 
• 1.HRVP.4 - Define consent and discuss how it is important in all types of relationships.
• 1.HRVP.6 - Explain that everyone has the right to decide who can touch one’s own body, where, and in what way to prevent violence and abuse.
• 1.SFA.5 - Discuss why it is important to ask a trusted adult before using online devices.  

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Spring Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 8: Get Well Soon
  • Lesson 2: Germs

Lesson Objectives:

• Define germs and discover how they spread.
• Show respect for others by promising to try not to spread germs.
• Practice ways to keep germs from spreading.
• Compare and contrast a communicable and noncommunicable illness.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 1.SFA.4 - Recognize that it is important to stay away from potentially unsafe body fluids and objects, including needles and syringes.

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to second grade, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out of all or some of these lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• Second Grade Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• Second Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• Second Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• Second Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• Second Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Unit 1: Let’s Stay Safe
  • Lesson 2: Community Harm Prevention Rules and Laws
  • Lesson 4: I Don’t Hurt You, You Don’t Hurt Me

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safe vs. unsafe conditions for certain common hazards on the street.
• Demonstrate responsibility to “play it safe” to keep your body from harm by designing appropriate role-play.
• Practice safe habits for avoiding certain common hazards regarding street safety.
• Use Decision Making Skill Steps to decide whether a situation is safe or unsafe.
• Demonstrate acceptance of rules and people in charge who protect your safety.
• Name common emergencies and list steps to take in each case.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 2.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 4C - Recognize and acknowledge when there is harm to self and others and identify when support, agency, and practices to repair and restore are needed. 
• 2.HRVP.4 - Define bodily autonomy, personal boundaries, and consent. 
• 2.HRVP.5 - Recognize that friends, family, teachers, and community members can help each other. 
• 2.HRVP.6 - Recognize bullying, cyberbullying, and teasing in multiple types of relationships and the need to tell a trusted source that can help.
• 2.HRVP.7 - Define and identify different forms of violence and abuse, including physical, verbal, sexual, and emotional. 

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Fight! Child Abuse Prevention

• Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
• Lesson 2: It Doesn’t Matter Who it Is
• Lesson 3: Stranger Safety
• Lesson 4: Review of Protect Yourself Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safety rules for the home, the school, and the community.
• Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching.
• Explain that everyone has the right to tell others not to touch his or her body.
• Identify people who are strangers and how to avoid contact with strangers
• Role-play what to do if a stranger at home, in a car, or on the street approaches you.
• Demonstrate how to ask a trusted grown-up for help or call 9-1-1.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 2.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 4C - Recognize and acknowledge when there is harm to self and others and identify when support, agency, and practices to repair and restore are needed. 
• 2.HRVP.4 - Define bodily autonomy, personal boundaries, and consent. 
• 2.HRVP.6 - Recognize bullying, cyberbullying, and teasing in multiple types of relationships and the need to tell a trusted source that can help.
• 2.HRVP.7 - Define and identify different forms of violence and abuse, including physical, verbal, sexual, and emotional.
• 2.HRVP.8 - Identify that abuse is never a child’s fault and describe how to communicate personal boundaries and report unsafe or or unwanted touch. 
• 2.SEM.1 TSEL Practice 1B - Understand the stress response system (regulation and dysregulation) and what environments and experiences activate those responses.
• 2.SEM.3 - Describe the different ways that people can experience or exhibit stress, anxiety, social isolation, and sadness. 

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Spring Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 6: Babies… and How You Grow
  • Lesson 2: Families
  • Lesson 4: I am Special

Lesson Objectives:

• Define the word family, and describe the role that the family plays in the growth and development of a child.
• Identify ways to show you respect differences in families.
• Define the word unique. Explain why everyone is different, and that each person has special qualities.
• Show you have respect for the talents and different special qualities of everyone you meet.
• Imagine what it would be like if everyone was exactly the same.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 2.GD.1 - Recognize that humans grow and mature at different ages and in different ways. 
• 2.GD.2 - Recognize that there are many different types of families that may or may not be genetically related, including blended, adopted, and foster families. 
• 2.HRVP.3 - Discuss how diversity in race, gender, and ability enrich relationships and communities. 
• 2.HRVP.6 - Recognize bullying, cyberbullying, and teasing in multiple types of relationships and the need to tell a trusted source that can help.

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to third grade, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• Third Grade Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• Third Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• Third Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• Third Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• Third Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Unit 1: Stay at Home, Safe Away
  • Lesson 4: “Say “NO!” to Danger”

Lesson Objectives:

• Explain how to use refusal skills to say “NO!”
• Make a personal pledge concerning the use of refusal skills.
• Role play refusal skills in various unsafe/risky situations.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 3.SEM.5 - Explain the importance of talking with trusted adults about feelings. 

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Fight! Child Abuse Prevention

• Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
• Lesson 2: It Doesn’t Matter Who it Is
• Lesson 3: Stranger Safety
• Lesson 4: Review of Protect Yourself Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safety rules for the home, the school, and the community.
• Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching.
• Explain that everyone has the right to tell others not to touch his or her body.
• Identify people who are strangers and how to avoid contact with strangers
• Role-play what to do if a stranger at home, in a car, or on the street approaches you.
• Demonstrate how to ask a trusted grown-up for help or call 9-1-1.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 3.SEM.1 TSEL - Practice 1B - Understand the stress response system (regulation and dysregulation) and what environments and experiences activate those.
• 3.SEM.2 TSEL Practices 2B - Use management strategies while recognizing that various situations and environments may require different approaches for achieving personal and collective goals and aspirations in ways that affirm one’s identity.  
• 3.SEM.3 - Identify the impacts of stress on mental health. 
• 3.SEM.5 - Explain the importance of talking with trusted adults about feelings. 
• 3.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 3B - Apply social skills (i.e., empathy, compassion, etc.) to develop and maintain healthy relationships that collectively achieve mutual goals while affirming identities and perspectives.  

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Winter Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 6: My Family, Your Family
  • Lesson 1: All About Families
  • Lesson 3: A Very Special Person Me

Lesson Objectives:

• Define the word family and identify different types of families.
• Show respect for different types of families.
• Define the words special and respect.
• Indicate why you feel it is important to respect others.
• Practice active listening and communication skills.
• Analyze what makes other people “special.”

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 3.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 3B - Apply social skills (i.e., empathy, compassion, etc.) to develop and maintain healthy relationships that collectively achieve mutual goals while affirming identities and perspectives.
• 3.HRVP.2 - Describe characteristics of a healthy and safe relationship. 
• 3.HRVP.3 - Discuss the importance of using affirming language around protected classes of people including people of all genders, race and ethnicities, sexual orientations, and abilities. 
• 3.HRVP.4 - Demonstrate effective ways to verbally and nonverbally communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others. 
• 3.GD.1 - Discuss attributes and characteristics that make every person unique and valued, including physical diversity and neurodiversity. 
• 3.GD.5 - Recognize that there are different kinds of families that have unique characteristics and identities. 

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to fourth grade, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out of lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• Fourth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• Fourth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• Fourth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• Fourth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• Fourth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Unit 1: Community Safety
  • Lesson 2: How the Community Handles Conflict
  • Lesson 4: My Part in Keeping the Community Safe

Lesson Objectives:

• Define community and explain how the organization of each local government department helps to keep us safe through people, regulations, and laws.
• Demonstrate respect for the people, rules, and laws that protect you and those you love by selecting and implementing a method of expressing appreciation.
• Practice following community regulations and respecting people who keep us safe.
• Compare and contrast local government departments to determine roles in keeping the community safe.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 4.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 4D - Restore relationships through actively engaging with others, working collaboratively, and affirming cultural and social perspectives.
• 4.HRVP.6  - Discuss communication skills to build healthy relationships and manage conflict. 
• 4.SEM.1 TSEL Practice 5C - Anticipate, reflect and evaluate the impacts of one’s choices and contributions in promoting personal, family, and community well-being.
• 4.SEM.2  -Identify ways of dealing with stress, anxiety, social isolation, and depression that contribute to the well-being and mental health of self and others. 
• 4.HRVP.3 - Discuss how power and inequality influence different types of relationships and boundaries. 
• 4.HRVP.4 - Demonstrate ways to treat all people with dignity and respect, including people of all genders, gender expressions, and gender identities. 
• 4.HRVP.7 - Identify situations when someone is being abused or harassed and identify people or resources to get help from.
• 4.HRVP.8 - Demonstrate how to be an upstander to respond to bullying or teasing based on physical characteristics, ability, or cultural identity.
•  4.GD.3 - Discuss the importance of treating people with dignity and respect in regards to their sexual orientation, including other students, their family members, and members of the school community. 

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Fight! Child Abuse Prevention

• Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
• Lesson 2: Can't Go Home
• Lesson 3: Smart Choices Online 
• Lesson 4: Tell/ Guide to Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safe people and places to go to if feeling unsafe or threatened (e.g., school counselor, police department, fire department).
• Discuss the importance of setting (and ways to set) personal boundaries for privacy, safety, and expression of emotions.
• Demonstrate the ability to ask a trusted adult for help when feeling personally threatened or unsafe, including while using the Internet.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 4.SEM.2 - Identify ways of dealing with stress, anxiety, social isolation, and depression that contribute to the well-being and mental health of self and others.
• 4.HRVP.2 - Describe a variety of healthy ways to show and express liking or loving someone.
• 4.HRVP.3 - Discuss how power and inequality influence different types of relationships and boundaries.
• 4.HRVP.9 - Identify different behaviors that would be considered child abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse.
• 4.SRH.1 - Recognize that people can show affection and care for other people in different ways, including consensual kissing, hugging, and touching.
• 4.GD.3 - Discuss the importance of treating people with dignity and respect in regards to their sexual orientation, including other students, their family members, and members of the school community.

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Winter Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 6: Be Cool, Keep Clean
  • Lesson 1: Hormones and Body Changes
  • Lesson 2: What Is Good Hygiene?
  • Lesson 4: Looking Good, Feeling Great

Lesson Objectives:

• Define the immune system and discover its ability to fight germs.
• Show how you respect your great body by setting up standards of care to live by.
• Role-play how a healthy immune system fights germs.
• Set goals to build and maintain a healthy defense system.
• Discover how illness and disease have affected your community.
• Show how important you feel it is to treat those who are ill with kindness and dignity.
• Design a fundraiser to help those in the community afflicted with a terminal illness.
• Predict the consequences to a community that turns its back on those afflicted with a disease.

Alignment to the Oregon State Health Standards

• 4.HRVP.1: TSEL Practice 4D - Restore relationships through actively engaging with others, working collaboratively, and affirming cultural and social perspectives.
• 4.HRVP.8 - Demonstrate how to be an upstander to respond to bullying or teasing based on physical characteristics, ability, or cultural identity.
• 4.GD.1 - Discuss physical, emotional, neurological, and social changes associated with puberty.
• 4.GD.2: - Identify body care practices related to puberty, including using menstrual products.
• 4.GD.3 - Discuss the importance of treating people with dignity and respect in regards to their sexual orientation, including other students, their family members, and members of the school community.
• 4.WHP.1 - Identify individual, cultural, and family values that affect one's health.
• 4.WHP.3 - Understand why sleep is necessary for the brain and body and describe how sleep works.
• 4.SEM.2 - Identify ways of dealing with stress, anxiety, social isolation, and depression that contribute to the well-being and mental health of self and others.
• 4.HRVP.1: TSEL Practice 4D - Restore relationships through actively engaging with others, working collaboratively, and affirming cultural and social perspectives.
• 4.HRVP.4 - Demonstrate ways to treat all people with dignity and respect, including people of all genders, gender expressions, and gender identities. 

Throughout the year, students will participate in health education units specific to fifth grade, including:

• Comprehensive health
• Substance abuse
• Sexual abuse prevention

Each lesson complies with the Oregon Laws and Standards teaches functional health knowledge that supports students in developing the essential health skills necessary to practice a lifetime of health and wellness. 

Opt-Out Form

To opt your student out of lessons, please sign and return the following document to your child's school.

• Fifth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (English)
• Fifth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
• Fifth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Arabic)
• Fifth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Chuukese)
• Fifth Grade Health Opt-Out Form (Marshallese)

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Fall Health Lessons Aligned to Oregon Health and Erin’s Law Standards

• Fight! Child Abuse Prevention
  • Lesson 1: Protect Yourself Rules/Secrets 
  • Lesson 2: Can't Go Home
  • Lesson 3: Smart Choices Online 
  • Lesson 4: Tell/ Guide to Rules

Lesson Objectives:

• Identify safe people and places to go to if feeling unsafe or threatened (e.g., school counselor, police department, fire department).
• Discuss the importance of setting (and ways to set) personal boundaries for privacy, safety, and expression of emotions.
• Demonstrate the ability to ask a trusted adult for help when feeling personally threatened or unsafe, including while using the Internet.

Alignment to the 2023 Oregon State Health Standards

• 5.HRVP.3 - Identify characteristics of safe and equitable relationships.
• 5.HRVP.4 - Explain the relationship between consent, personal boundaries, and bodily autonomy.
• 5.HRVP.7 - Identify that abuse is never a child’s fault and demonstrate how to communicate personal boundaries and report unsafe or unwanted touch.
• 5.GD.5 - Define gender identity, gender expression, gender roles, and sex assigned at birth, and sexual orientation.

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Winter Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 6: Growing Up
  • Lesson 1: Hormones and your body
  • Lesson 2: Puberty: Growing and changing 
  • Lesson 3: Hygiene and You- Keeping Clean
  • Lesson 4: Growing Up with a Healthy Attitude

Lesson Objectives:

• Explain the endocrine system, including major glands and the role hormones play in stimulating body functions.
• Identify values, responsibilities, and decisions related to growing up.
• Identify the biological differences between males and females.
• Identify the connection between good hygiene, your appearance, and feeling good about the way you look.
• Show empathy, respect, and support for others who are going through puberty.
• Analyze influences of consumer products for hygiene and appearance

Alignment to the 2023 Oregon State Health Standards

• 5.GD.1 - Describe the human sexual and reproductive system, including external and internal anatomy and basic functions.
• 5.GD.2 - Examine the physical, social, and emotional changes during puberty and adolescence.
• 5.GD.3 - Identify trusted adults, including parents, caregivers, and health care professionals,  to ask questions about puberty and adolescent health. 
• 5.GD.4 - Describe the menstrual cycle and how menstrual products are used.
• 5.GD.5 - Define gender identity, gender expression, gender roles, and sex assigned at birth, and sexual orientation.
• 5.GD.7 - Describe how genetics can affect personal and family health. 
• 5.HRVP.1 TSEL Practice 3C - Foster a sense of belonging that cultivates acceptance, support, inclusion, and encouragement of others within a diverse community, while addressing the impact of systemic injustices across situations and environments. 
• 5.HRVP.5 - Explain why it is harmful to tease or bully others based on personal abilities, characteristics, or identities. 
• 5.SEM.6 - Analyze the impact of identity-based bullying and violence on mental health. 
• 5.SRH.2 - Identify that pregnancy can occur in different ways, including sexual intercourse, insemination, in vitro fertilization, donor conception, and surrogacy. 

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Spring Health Lessons Aligned to Comprehensive Sexuality Education 

• Unit 8: About Blood and Disease
  • Lesson 3: HIV, Enemy of the Immune System

Lesson Objectives:

• Determine how HIV affects the immune system.
• Design a goal chart that shows all of the positive things you hope to be and do in your life.
• Practice refusal skills, particularly concerning avoiding behaviors that pose the risk of contracting bloodborne diseases, including HIV.
• Analyze how HIV can and cannot be transmitted.

Alignment to the 2023 Oregon State Health Standards

• 5.SRH.3 - Define STIs, including HIV, and describe ways to prevent them, including abstinence and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.