Maryland State Curriculum Content Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to apply prevention and intervention knowledge, skills, and processes to promote safe living in the home, school, and community.
| A. Responding to Emergencies | |
| 5.3.A.1 | Demonstrate the ability to respond appropriately to emergency situations. |
5.3.A.1.a. |
Identify different emergency situations. |
5.3.A.1.b. |
Demonstrate basic first aid for small cuts and scrapes, blisters, mild burns, choking, sunburn, and nosebleeds. |
| 5.3.A.2. | Demonstrate the ability to access emergency services. |
5.3.A.2.a. |
Categorize procedures for reporting an emergency, such as telephone 911 and/or contact an adult. |
| 5.3.A.3. | Demonstrate the ability to respond appropriately to situations that do not require emergency services. |
5.3.A.3.a. |
Plan what to do in situations not requiring the use of emergency services, for example locked out of house, transportation issues, missed bus, parents not showing, or others. |
| C. Harassment | |
| 5.3.C.1. | Identify teasing and bullying as harassment and their effects on the individual. |
5.3.C.1.a. |
Differentiate between teasing and bullying. |
5.3.C.1.b. |
Recognize examples of teasing and bullying, such as isolation, name calling and other verbal assaults, and pushing and other physical assaults. |
5.3.C.1.c. |
Examine the effects of teasing and bullying from the perspective of the bully and the bullied. |
| 5.3.C.2. | Describe and demonstrate the difference between telling and tattling. |
5.3.C.2.a. |
Create role play situations for telling and tattling. |