Elementary School Resources (K-5)

ETR Health Smart online

HealthSmart is ETR’s comprehensive K-12 health education program.  It gives children and youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long health behaviors.  HealthSmart allows the teacher to select and search for lessons. (Please contact your Health Advocate or our office to access HealthSmart lessons.)

HealthSmart recommended lessons:

• Kindergarten: Lessons 1-4, 24, 25
• Grade 1: Lessons 1-4, 8, 24, 25
• Grade 2: Lessons 1-4, 7, 20
• Grade 3: Lessons 1-5
• Grade 4: Lessons 4-6
• Grade 5: Lessons 1-3

Puberty

• Grade 4: Lessons 25-28
• Grade 5: Lessons 32-38

Safe touch

• Kindergarten: Lessons 10, 20
• Grade 1: Lessons 9, 20
• Grade 3: Lessons 16
• Grade 4: Lessons  27

Child Safety Awareness Curriculum

In partnership with the Office of School Health Programs, the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center (the Prevention Center) has adapted its Child Safety Awareness (CSA) curriculum—consisting of two lessons on safe and unsafe touches, assertiveness, and the development of a support system—for classroom teacher implementation. This revised content can be delivered in two thirty-minute lessons and extended as needed. Content for grades K-3 focuses on safe and unsafe touch as well as connecting with supportive adults. Lessons for grades 4 and 5 include additional content on internet safety and bullying.

Proctor and Gamble online

Free videos about Puberty from Proctor and Gamble are available online. You can order one for your classroom or stream them from the website. You will not be able to fast forward if you stream it. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video choices and script.

• Always Changing – Co-ed (26 minutes)
• Always Changing – Girls (16.44 minutes)
• Always Changing – Boys (18.45 minutes)

Planned Parenthood Puberty Lessons

This community services, education and outreach program is one of the largest in the country. The high quality programming includes puberty education, comprehensive sex education, parent/caregiver education, and professional development trainings. Trained health educators are innovators who utilize the resources of the entire organization to tailor programs and services that fit the diverse needs of the many communities we serve. All of the education programming is medically accurate, age and developmentally appropriate, bias-free, and non-judgmental.

SFUSD teachers please email healthed@healthiersf.org for a copy of the lessons.

Tell Me About AIDS

Tell Me About AIDS provides developmentally appropriate and sequential HIV education

A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up / A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up

A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up and A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up videos provide puberty education for students with special needs. Recommended for Grade 3.

F.L.A.S.H

F.L.A.S.H. is a widely used comprehensive sexual health education curriculum developed by Public Health Seattle–King County.

iMatter

iMatter, created by the Population Council, provides an integrated approach to teaching younger adolescents about gender, puberty, and rights. It aims to foster students’ social and emotional learning and to promote their connectedness to school.

Curriculum

ETR HealthSmart online

HealthSmart is ETR’s comprehensive K-12 health education program.  It gives children and youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long health behaviors.  HealthSmart allows the teacher to select and search for lessons. (Please contact your Health Advocate or our office to access HealthSmart lessons.)

HealthSmart recommended lessons:

• Kindergarten: Lessons 26-30
• Grade 1: Lessons 26-29
• Grade 2: Lessons 23-26
• Grade 3: Lessons 25-29
• Grade 4: Lessons 20-24
• Grade 5: Lessons 24-31

Too Good for Drugs

Too Good for Drugs is a universal prevention program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. The program introduces and develops social and emotional skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure.

Recommended Lessons

• Grade 1: Lessons 1, 7, 8
• Grade 2: Lessons 1, 8, 9
• Grade 3: Lessons 1, 2, 6
• Grade 4: Lessons 3, 4, 6
• Grade 5: Lessons 1, 3, 4

Curriculum

ETR HealthSmart online

HealthSmart is ETR’s comprehensive K-12 health education program.  It gives children and youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long health behaviors.  HealthSmart allows the teacher to select and search for lessons. (Please contact your Health Advocate or our office to access HealthSmart lessons.)

HealthSmart recommended lessons:

• Kindergarten: Lessons  21-25
• Grade 1: Lessons 21-25
• Grade 2: Lessons  16-22
• Grade 3: Lessons 17-24
• Grade 4: Lessons 16-19
• Grade 5 :Lessons 16-23

Nutrition Education Project

The Nutrition Education Project website is a resource for teachers and staff to support student academic performance through nutrition education and physical activity promotion.

 Go to Nutrition Education Project

Nutrition And Physical Activity Resource Bin

SFUSD’s Nutrition Education Project has provided a resource bin for each elementary school, full of nutrition education and physical activity teaching materials. The main curriculum is called “Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools,” and it consists of two binders of lessons: one for K-2 and one for grades 3-5.

Recommended Lessons

• Grade 1: Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools K-2 Lessons
• Grade 2: Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools K-2 Lessons
• Grade 3: Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools 3-5 Lessons
• Grade 4: Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools 3-5 Lessons
• Grade 5: Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools 3-5 Lessons