At Each Grade Level, Prekindergarten Through Grade 12. Health education provides a foundation in public health, medical knowledge, and modes of inquiry into how individuals and societies acquire their health-related knowledge, and empowers students to change unhealthy attitudes and behaviors. Students learn factual information and develop skills for finding and evaluating information and resources, for making decisions, and for setting goals to promote their own health and the health of others. These others may include family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc.
Physical education addresses body dynamics, movement, physical fitness, competition, and teamwork.
Family and consumer sciences education examines the concept of family life and consumerism. Each of these subjects contributes to comprehensive health education. Together they develop students' knowledge of health concepts, life management skills, and habits that can facilitate lifelong health for the individual and for others. To be most effective, health should be taught regularly, beginning with a student's entry into school and continuing through grade 12. A sequential curriculum introduces concepts and skills in the early grades and reinforces them with more detailed and complex information and skills in the later grades.