Grade 3 Health Delaware Standards

Identify responsible personal health behaviors.

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

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

Encourage others in making positive health choices.

Functional knowledge of health concepts impacts health behavior.

Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.

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

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

Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

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

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

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

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

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

Describe when it is important to seek health care.

Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues.

Health is influenced by multiple factors

Express how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Describe how the school and community support personal health practices.

Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.

Practicing and adopting healthy behaviors leads to a healthy lifestyle

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

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

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

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

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

Advocacy is critical to personal, family and community health

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

Describe ways technology can influence personal health.

Decision making is a process that impacts health

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

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

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

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

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

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

Effective communication protects and enhances health

Utilizing valid resources facilitates health

Choose a health option when making decisions.

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems.

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

Goal setting enhances health outcomes

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

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

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

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

Participate in physical activity social settings

There are different rules for different movements.

Participate fully during physical education class

Perform a variety of physical activities that they enjoy

Count their pulse rate and record (resting and active)

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

Explain the benefits of physical activity/physical education

Work independently and in groups while staying on task

Perform and develop cooperative activities

Participate cooperatively in competitive and noncompetitive activities

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

How to improve personal fitness

Apply movement concepts to fundamental skills

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

Moving is important.

Explain the importance of maintaining a healthy body

Apply knowledge of anatomy for performance.

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

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

Demonstrate spatial awareness in self and others.

Participates regularly in physical activity

Model by leading a small group activity (teacher directed)

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

Perform individually and as part of a group.

Work independently and groups while staying on task

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

Come to class prepared for participation

There are behavioral expectations in physical activity settings

Perform and demonstrate advanced characteristics of motor skills.

Apply and demonstrate rules and safe practices for a specific activity

Move safely through general and self space.

Demonstrate independence in physical activity settings

Being physically fit contributes to being healthy.

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

Recognize when they are in an effective heart rate zone

Use multiple strategies for solving differences or disagreements

Follow, cue and expand – apply to other movement experiences

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

Logically connect health related components of fitness with specific movements

Improve personal effort and engagement level of exertion during class

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

Create a list of activities that builds fitness

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

Recognize competitive activity from cooperative activity

Self-assess participation in physical activity

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