Grade 3 Health Delaware standards Standards

Encourage others in making positive health choices.

Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues.

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

Explore a variety of practices to avoid or reduce health risks.

Consider a variety of healthy practices to maintain or improve personal health.

Identify responsible personal health behaviors.

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Describe the outcome(s) of a health-related decision.

Choose a health option when making decisions.

Predict outcomes of each option when making health-related decision.

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

Analyze when assistance is needed when making a health-related decision.

Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision.

Decision making is a process that impacts health

Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

Recognize the benefits of non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to enhance health.

Effective communication protects and enhances health

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Locate resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information.

Compare and contrast characteristics of valid health information, products and services.

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

Students will demonstrate the ability to access information, products and services to enhance health.

Describe ways technology can influence personal health.

Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.

Describe how the school and community support personal health practices.

Express how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Describe how a person's family and culture influence personal health practices.

Health is influenced by multiple factors

Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors.

Describe when it is important to seek health care.

Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.

Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.

Identify indicators of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical health.

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

Students will understand essential health concepts in order to transfer knowledge into healthy actions for life

Participate in physical activity social settings

Explain the benefits of physical activity/physical education

Perform a variety of physical activities that they enjoy

Physical activity provides a variety of opportunities for enjoyment and social interaction.

Creates opportunities for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction through physical activity

Work independently and in groups while staying on task

Use multiple strategies for solving differences or disagreements

Self-assess participation in physical activity

Work independently and groups while staying on task

Model by leading a small group activity (teacher directed)

Demonstrate independence in physical activity settings

Demonstrate cooperation in a variety of physical activity settings (diversity)

Apply and demonstrate rules and safe practices for a specific activity

There are behavioral expectations in physical activity settings

Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Create a list of activities that builds fitness

Build own fitness plan within context of physical education class constraints.

How to improve personal fitness

Predict how the body will respond to various/different physical activity

Provide examples of the five (5) components of fitness and of activities or exercises

Count their pulse rate and record (resting and active)

Being physically fit contributes to being healthy.

Achieves and maintains a personal health-enhancing level of physical fitness

Improve personal effort and engagement level of exertion during class

Participate fully during physical education class

Come to class prepared for participation

Identify Physical activity opportunities at school and within the community, for regular participation in physical activity

Moving is important.

Participates regularly in physical activity

Follow, cue and expand – apply to other movement experiences

Perform individually and as part of a group.

Recognize when they are in an effective heart rate zone

Apply knowledge of anatomy for performance.

Apply movement concepts to fundamental skills

There are different rules for different movements.

Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities

Logically connect health related components of fitness with specific movements

Explain the importance of maintaining a healthy body

Participate cooperatively in competitive and noncompetitive activities

Perform and develop cooperative activities

Recognize competitive activity from cooperative activity

Apply movement in challenging context with self, and another person or groups of people

Move safely through general and self space.

Demonstrate spatial awareness in self and others.

Perform and demonstrate advanced characteristics of motor skills.

Physical Activity involves using movement and motor skills throughout your life.

Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities