Take heat breaks during outdoor work or sports
When to use this goal
For students whose health condition or medication raises heat risk, or who push through heat without resting, during outdoor jobs, sports, or PE. Base the choice on the health plan and the nurse. The plan sets the break schedule and the warning signs.
- Baseline
- On 3 or more hot days, record each planned break time and each warning sign: whether the student took the break and how long. Ask coaches what they have seen.
- Tips
- All breaks every time, since heat illness can be serious. Coaches and supervisors agree to the plan in writing. Score each break or warning as one opportunity.
- Limits
- Warning signs may be missed by the student; adults keep watching. Emergency signs follow the emergency plan. This goal never replaces the individualized health plan, medication orders, or an emergency action plan; the nurse, the family, and the student's health care provider decide care, and the goal follows their plan.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID fn-hlt-035.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, during outdoor work-based learning, sports practice, or PE on days above the plan's temperature, the student will tell the adult in charge, move to shade, and drink water for the break time in their plan independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive months, as measured by direct observation collected on each hot day or warning event.
Baseline: 1 of 4 opportunities.
- Condition
- Observable behavior
- Criterion
- Measurement method
Measurability check11 of 11 met
Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.
Met: Condition. Stated.
Met: Unit fits the behavior. Opportunities fits this behavior.
Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.
Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.
Met: Method produces the metric. Direct observation gives opportunities data.
Met: Review timeframe. Stated.
Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.
Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Health & Self-Management.
Met: Level of support. Defined.
Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.
Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.
Short-term objectives (optional)
When are objectives required?Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.
Paste into your IEP system
Most district systems have a separate box for each part of a goal. Copy them one at a time, or all at once as labeled text.
- Area of need
- Functional & Independence Skills - Health & Self-Management
- Baseline
- 1 of 4 opportunities.
- Annual goal380 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, during outdoor work-based learning, sports practice, or PE on days above the plan's temperature, the student will tell the adult in charge, move to shade, and drink water for the break time in their plan independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive months, as measured by direct observation collected on each hot day or warning event.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- During outdoor work-based learning, sports practice, or PE on days above the plan's temperature
- Behavior
- The student will tell the adult in charge, move to shade, and drink water for the break time in their plan independently
- Criteria
- In 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive months
- Evaluation method
- Direct observation
- Schedule
- On each hot day or warning event
Copied as plain text, with straight quotes and plain dashes.
Matching data sheet
Opportunity tracker. One box per opportunity in each session.
Opportunity tracker
Opportunities- Student label:
- Target:
- in 4 of 4 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 3 consecutive months
- Collection schedule:
- on each hot day or warning event
- Method:
- Direct observation
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, during outdoor work-based learning, sports practice, or PE on days above the plan's temperature, the student will tell the adult in charge, move to shade, and drink water for the break time in their plan independently in 4 of 4 opportunities, across 3 consecutive months, as measured by direct observation collected on each hot day or warning event.
Key: + demonstrated independently · P demonstrated with a prompt (note type) · − not demonstrated · NA no opportunity occurred
| Date | Activity / context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | # + (of 4) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preview shows 4 of 12 rows.
- Record up to 4 opportunities per session, matching the goal's denominator.
- Define in advance what counts as an opportunity so every data collector records the same thing.
- Count only + marks toward the criterion unless the goal specifies prompted responses.
The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.