Examining the Place of Self-care Education in the Intended Curriculum of Experimental Sciences of the Second Year of Elementary School

The purpose of this study was to investigate the place of self-care education in the intended curriculum of experimental sciences. The research method was a content analysis with practical goals. The research population included the book of experimental sciences. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The reliability of the data was checked by the Holstein method. In the first category of self-management components, communication skills and information acquisition skills were investigated, and the communication skills component was considered significantly more than the other two components. The second category of individual, behavioral and environmental components was of equal interest. The third category of health maintenance component was more frequent than minor, chronic and acute diseases. fourth category of regulatory component was superior to other components, i.e. preventive, reactive and restoring health. The fifth category of the physical component was more important than the mental, emotional, spiritual, school and community components. According to the results of the research, the homogeneity in the different components of self-care in the textbook of experimental sciences has not been observed. According to the findings, it is suggested that the status of teaching self-care in the textbook of experimental sciences of the second elementary school be revised.