Standard Course of Study & Supporting Resources
Healthful Living Standards Documents
The current state content standards were approved by the NC State Board of Education in 2010, with required implementation for schools in 2012.
View all Healthful Living Content Standards and Support Documents
Resources intended to assist with the implementation of the North Carolina Healthful Living Essential Standards.
NCDPI Healthful Living Hub
Materials/Resources for the 2025-2026 implementation of the new Healthful Living Standards
The NC Healthful Living Hub is a repository for all Healthful Living stakeholders. The purpose of this hub is to provide a space for Healthful Living stakeholders to explore resources that will assist with planning, instruction, and professional learning designed to support effective standard-based teaching and learning.
The Healthful Living team has designed this repository to provide a variety of resources for supporting school leaders, administrators, educators, and parents/caregivers. This hub houses the standards and recommended resources related to the implementation of the North Carolina Healthful Living K-12 Standard Course of Study. Healthful Living educators are encouraged to browse, reference, download, share, discuss, and adapt these resources.
Health Education
Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD)
Nutrition and Physical Activity (NPA)
Personal and Consumer Health (PCH)
Interpersonal Communication and Relationships (ICR)
Reproductive Health and Safety / Human Trafficking
Teaching the Standards: CPR Instruction Webinar 9/23/20
This webinar will provide tools and resources to support the implementation of Healthful Living Objectives for CPR during remote instruction. Participants will hear strategies for providing instruction virtually now with hands on demonstration upon returning to the classroom. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to share teaching strategies, successes and challenges with colleagues from across the state.
Presenter:
Burt Jenkins, State Healthful Living Consultant
CPR Instruction Without Videos (ppt)
CPR Instruction with ARC link (ppt)
CPR Instruction With Videos (ppt) (Allow extra time for download due to file size)
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CPR Legislation
An act to make successful completion of instruction in CPR available to all students with a plan to phase in completion of CPR Instruction as a High School graduation requirement by 2015.
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NC State Board of Education Graduation Requirements GRAD-004
The year a student enters grade nine for the first time determines the graduation course requirements the student must meet.
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AED Handout
Best if printed on both sides of legal-size paper, folded along dotted lines to create resource.
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CPR Checklist
Checklist 1 to be used in instruction
Check list 2 for use in cumulative folder
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CPR Frequently Asked Questions
Guidance Essential Standards and Healthful Living Essential Standards contain numerous similarities, thus present great opportunities for school counselors and health education teachers to collaborate. Below you will find documents that crosswalk the two to help you identify those collaborative opportunities. Healthful Living Essential Standards are organized by grade levels whereas Guidance Essential Standards are organized developmentally based on student readiness rather than grade level placement beginning with RED and ending with Independent as follows:
RED - Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery
EEE - Early Emergent/Emergent
P - Progressing
EI - Early Independent
I - Independent
Guidance Standards with Healthful Living Additions
Healthful Living (K-6) w GES Readiness Discovery
Healthful Living (6-9) w GES Early Independent
Healthful Living (6-9) w GES Independent
Healthful Living Standards with Guidance Additions
NCDPI Social Emotional Learning Guidance for Healthful Living
This document is designed to provide a crosswalk between the five core competencies of SEL and Healthful Living objectives and instruction.
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Webinar: Integrating SEL in Healthful Living
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00 pm
Description:
This session is designed for Healthful Living educators who want to learn more about integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into their classrooms and standards-based curriculum. An overview of North Carolina’s SEL initiatives will be shared, including the work of the NC SEL Implementation Team and the Core SEL Practices. The new SEL Standards Mapping document for Healthful Living will be explored, along with other resources that can support implementation of SEL into any PK-12 learning environment.
Presenter: Burt Jenkins, NCDPI Healthful Living Consultant
Integrating SEL in Healthful Living Recorded Webinar
Global Education Resources Document
This document contains some global connections found in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Healthful Living Essential Standards
along with supporting resources and tools. This is not an exhaustive list and will be updated as needed.
Low cost options in creating Physical Education equipment.
Games
Strings and Rings
Equipment DIY
Best Racket Written Instructions
Walking and Bicycle Safety
- A Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Skills Program for Healthy, Active Children is an all-in-one package of lesson plans, materials, activities and instructional videos that encourages children to learn about and practice fundamental skills that build safe habits.
North Carolina Safe Routes to School
- Safe Routes to School is a national and international movement to enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school. SRTS programs are comprehensive efforts that look at ways to make walking and bicycling to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, thus encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age. To start a program at your school, check out the handbook and other resources here.
Please note that fitness testing is voluntary; however, if fitness testing is being conducted these guidelines adopted in 2011-2012 should be followed.
Guidance Essential Standards and Healthful Living Essential Standards contain numerous similarities, thus present great opportunities for school counselors and health education teachers to collaborate. Below you will find documents that crosswalk the two to help you identify those collaborative opportunities. Healthful Living Essential Standards are organized by grade levels whereas Guidance Essential Standards are organized developmentally based on student readiness rather than grade level placement beginning with RED and ending with Independent as follows:
RED - Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery
EEE - Early Emergent/Emergent
P - Progressing
EI - Early Independent
I - Independent
Guidance Standards with Healthful Living Additions
Healthful Living (K-6) w GES Readiness Discovery
Healthful Living (K-8) w GES Early Emergent
Healthful Living (4-8) w GES Progressing
Healthful Living (6-9) w GES Early Independent
Healthful Living (6-9) w GES Independent
Healthful Living Standards with Guidance Additions
NCDPI Social Emotional Learning Guidance for Healthful Living
This document is designed to provide a crosswalk between the five core competencies of SEL and Healthful Living objectives and instruction.
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Webinar: Integrating SEL in Healthful Living
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00 pm
Description:
This session is designed for Healthful Living educators who want to learn more about integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into their classrooms and standards-based curriculum. An overview of North Carolina’s SEL initiatives will be shared, including the work of the NC SEL Implementation Team and the Core SEL Practices. The new SEL Standards Mapping document for Healthful Living will be explored, along with other resources that can support implementation of SEL into any PK-12 learning environment.
Presenter: Burt Jenkins, NCDPI Healthful Living Consultant
Integrating SEL in Healthful Living Recorded Webinar
Global Education Resources Document
This document contains some global connections found in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Healthful Living Essential Standards
along with supporting resources and tools. This is not an exhaustive list and will be updated as needed.
Classroom Based Physical Activities! The way teachers integrate physical activity with academic concepts. Check out these short, about 10-minute, activities that classroom teachers can use to provide activity to children.
- A Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Skills Program for Healthy, Active Children is an all-in-one package of lesson plans, materials, activities and instructional videos that encourages children to learn about and practice fundamental skills that build safe habits.
North Carolina Safe Routes to School
- Safe Routes to School is a national and international movement to enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school. SRTS programs are comprehensive efforts that look at ways to make walking and bicycling to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, thus encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age. To start a program at your school, check out the handbook and other resources here.