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Third Grade Curriculum and Standards

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Nutrition

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

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Why You Need Food

Dietary guidelines

Choosing Healthful Meals and Snacks

Analyze What Influences Your Health

Food Safety

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Identify the nutrients your body needs

Identify what foods are in the food groups

Explain how to use MyPyramid to make healthful food choices

List the Dietary Guidelines

Explain how to follow the Dietary Guidelines

Explain how to use the Dietary Guidelines to choose healthful snack

Describe what acts are found on food labels

Identify influences on your food choices

Explain how to plan a menu for a healthful meal

Explain how food can be kept safe

List safety rules for preparing foods

Identify the health benefits of good table manners.

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Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter 4, Lessons 1 through 4
8/1/2007

10.1.3.C ~ Concepts of Health ~ Explain the role o...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

Violence and Injury Prevention

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Indoor Safety

Safety on the Go

Safe in Wind and Weather

Staying Safe Around People

Staying Safe from Violence

List safety rules to prevent falls

List safety rules to follow in case of fire

List ways to prevent poisoning

Explain what computer safety means

List safety rules to follow when walking, biking, skating and riding a scooter

Describe how to keep safe around water

List ways to keep safe around cars and buses

Discuss how to stay safe outdoors

Explain how to stay safe in bad weather

List safety rules for times when you are home with someone besides your parents or guardians

List ways to stay safe from strangers

Define what an unsafe touch is

List ways to stay safe from a gang

Explain safety rules to prevent injury from guns and knives

Describe what to do if you find a gun

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 6, Lesssons 1 through 5
10/1/2007

10.3.3.A ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.B ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.C ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Recogniz...

10.3.3.D ~ Safety and Injury Prevention ~ Identify...

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Using Medicines Safely

Alcohol

Tobacco

Using Resistance Skills

Other Drugs

List ways medicines can help health

Explain how prescriptions and OTC drugs differ

List safety rules to follow when using medicines

List ways to say"no" to drinking alcohol

List ways that alcohol affects physical health

Describe how alcohol affects the way a person thinks, feels, and acts

List ways to say "no" to tobacco use
Describe how smoking and smokeless tobacco harm health

Explain ways ads try to get people to use tobacco

List ways second hand tobacco smoke harms health

Explain how to get help for drug abuse
Tell how to say "no" to illegal drugs and the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle
Tell ways caffeine can harm health
List the harmful effects of illegal drugs-marijuana, cocaine, crack and ecstasy
List the dangers of chemical inhalants

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter7, Lessons 1 through 4
12/1/2007

10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Using Medicines Safely

Alcohol

Tobacco

Using Resistance Skills

Other Drugs

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Health and Wellness, Chapter7, Lessons 1 through 4
12/1/2007

10.1.3.D ~ Concepts of Health ~ Know age appropria...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

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Growth and Development

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Your Muscles and Bones

Your Heart and Lungs

Your Digestive System

Your Senses and Nervous System

Explain the way your muscles work

Describe what your bones do

Identify ways to care for muscles and bones

Describe the circulatory system

Describe the respiratory system

Describe how to care for your heart and lungs

Discuss how your digestive system works

Describe how to care for the digestive system

List the five senses

Discuss what the nervous system does

Describe how to care for the nervous system

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 3, Lessons 2 through 5
2/1/2008

10.1.3.A ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify and descr...

10.1.3.B ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify and know ...

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Communicable and Chronic Diseases

Essential Questions

Content

Skills

Assessments

Lessons

Standards

Diseases that Spread

Fighting Diseases

Practice Healthful Behaviors

Chronic Diseases

Tell what causes disease

Describe ways to prevent the spread of disease

Explain how to treat flu, cold, and strep throat

Identify ways the body keeps germs out

Explain how the immune system fights disease

Discuss ways to reduce the risk of heart disease

Discuss ways to reduce the risk of cancer

Discuss ways to reduce the risk of diabetes

Define non communicable diseases

Describe ways to prevent non communicable diseases

Demonstrate ways to show care, concern, and respect for people with special needs

Explain what causes an asthma attack

List things you can be allergic to

Discuss ways to lessen allergens

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Health and Wellness Chapter 8, Lessons 1 through 3
4/1/2008

10.1.3.E ~ Concepts of Health ~ Identify types and...

10.2.3.A ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify personal hy...

10.2.3.B ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify health-rela...

10.2.3.C ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify media sourc...

10.2.3.E ~ Healthful Living ~ Identify environment...

Mrs. Carolyn G. Way, Health Instructor, S.S. Palmer Elementary School, PASD, Palmerton, PA