Grade 3 Health
Course Description
Students will learn how to stay healthy by understanding their bodies, including the major organs and how they work, and by recognizing common health problems like colds, allergies, or asthma. They will practice good hygiene, make healthy food choices using the food guide pyramid, and learn how to make safe decisions about medicine, drugs, and other risks. Students will also explore how media and community helpers influence health and safety, and use a decision-making process to make smart choices for themselves.
Course Big Ideas
- Knowing how health problems happen and how to prevent them helps keep us and others healthy.
- Understanding the body and eating healthy helps us grow, stay strong, and prevent health problems.
- Making smart, safe choices protects our health and helps us avoid harm.
- Information from the media and the community affects our health and safety, so it’s important to make informed choices.
Course Essential Questions
- What are health problems, and what causes them?
- How can healthy habits help prevent sickness and keep our bodies strong?
- How can I make safe and healthy choices when I use media?
- How do the decisions I make affect myself and others?
- How do the major body systems work together to help our bodies move, grow, and stay healthy?
- How does the food guide pyramid help us choose healthy foods that give our bodies the nutrients they need?
- How can understanding drugs and making safe choices help us protect our bodies and stay healthy?
Course Competencies
- Name common health problems children may have.
- Group health problems into basic categories such as infectious/non-infectious, long-term/short-term.
- Identify simple causes of common health problems.
- Identify common, everyday habits that help prevent health problems and promote good health.
- Identify media sources.
- Categorize media sources and information as real/not real or true not true.
- Categorize decisions as those that affect ourselves or others
- Identify the jobs of the circulatory, muscular, and skeletal systems.
- Name and locate the heart, muscles, and bones/skull in a human body.
- Explain what the food guide pyramid is.
- Explain why eating a variety of foods is important.
- Define what a drug is.
- Identify examples of drugs.
- Explain the difference between proper and improper use of medicine.
- Describe effects of drugs on the body (helpful vs. harmful).
- Demonstrate skills to avoid drugs.
- Identify the steps in making a good decision.a
Course Assessments
- Infectious vs. Noninfectious Diseases worksheet
- Drug Safety Quiz
- Discovery Education Media Sort
- Creation of a dinner plate that includes all food groups
- Organs and body systems quiz