Grade 3 Health Rhode Island standards Standards

Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals, families and schools.

Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.

Identify community agencies that advocate for healthy individuals, families, communities and the environment

Describe a variety of methods that convey accurate health information and ideas.

Discuss accurate information and express opinions about health issues.

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

Recognize that everyone has personal strengths and needs.

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

Predict outcomes of specific health decisions.

Explain when it is appropriate to ask for assistance in making health-related decisions and setting healthy goals.

Apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems.

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

Demonstrate non-violent strategies to resolve conflicts.

Differentiate between negative and positive responses to conflict situations.

Demonstrate refusal skills needed to enhance health.

Explain attentive listening skills needed to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration and respect of self and others.

Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Describe characteristics needed to be a responsible friend and family member.

Distinguish between verbal and non-verbal communication.

Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Explain how information from school and family influences health.

Describe ways technology can influence personal health.

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

Demonstrate awareness of the influence of culture upon personal health behaviors.

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

Recognize stressful situations and identify appropriate ways to manage them.

Identify and demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.

Develop injury prevention and management strategies for personal health.

Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal health.

Compare behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful.

Identify personal health needs and health habits.

Identify responsible health behaviors.

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

Identify different kinds of health providers.

Identify situations requiring professional health services.

Describe the relationship between health products and services and money.

Demonstrate the ability to locate school and community health helpers.

Explain how media influences the selection of health information, products and services.

Demonstrate the ability to locate resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information.

Identify characteristics of valid health information and health-promoting products and services.

Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and health promoting products and services.

Explain how childhood injuries and illnesses can be prevented or treated.

Identify health problems that should be detected and treated early.

Identify common health problems of children.

Describe how physical, social, emotional and family environments influence personal health.

Describe the basic structure and functions of the human body systems.

Identify indicators of mental, emotional, social and physical health during childhood.

Describe relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well being.

Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as a foundation for a healthy life.