Grade 3 Health Maine standards Standards

Students describe safety rules and rules of play for games/physical activities.

Safety Rules and Rules of Play

Students demonstrate safe behaviors and appropriate equipment use while participating in physical activities.

Responsible Behavior

Accept responsibility for personal behavior.

Get along with others.

Demonstrate active listening.

Students demonstrate cooperative skills while participating in physical activities.

Cooperative Skills

Personal and Social Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and explain responsible personal behavior and responsible social behavior in physical activity settings.

Students identify physical and mental benefits and bodily responses related to regular participation in physical activity.

Physical Activity Benefits

Students participate in physical activities that address each of the five health-related fitness components including flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and body composition.

Fitness Activity

Students describe and give examples of the five health-related fitness components.

Health-Related Fitness Plan

Students participate in multiple health-related fitness assessments (including a cardiovascular assessment) and reassess to observe changes over time.

Fitness Assessment

Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge: Students demonstrate and apply fitness concepts.

Students describe why practice is important to skill improvement.

Skill Improvement

Students identify the skill-related fitness components of balance, coordination, agility, and speed.

Skill-Related Fitness Components

Demonstrate locomotor skills and manipulative skills in combination using changes in direction, level, or pathway.

Demonstrate correct technique for a variety of manipulative skills.

Students demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills and manipulative skills.

Movement Skills

Demonstrate how body position can be changed to absorb force and decrease risk for injury.

Show how increasing speed and mass can change the force on an object.

Demonstrate movements that change the center of gravity and line of gravity during dynamic balances.

Students demonstrate a variety of movements that apply stability and force.

Stability and Force

Movement/Motor Skills and Knowledge: Students demonstrate the fundamental and specialized movement skills and apply principles of movement for improved performance.

Track progress toward achieving the goal.

Identify resources to assist in achieving the health goal.

Set a short-term personal health goal.

Students utilize goal-setting skills to implement a short-term personal health goal.

Goal-Setting

Describe the outcome of a health-related decision.

Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

List healthy options to health-related issues or problems and predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision.

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

Students apply decision-making steps to enhance health.

Decision-Making

Decision-Making and Goal-Setting Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to make decisions and set goals to enhance health.

Give accurate information about health issues.

Express opinions about health issues.

Students encourage others to make positive health choices.

Advocacy Skills

Demonstrate non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.

Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

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

Demonstrate appropriate listening skills to enhance health.

Students demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Communication and Advocacy Skills: Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication and advocacy skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.

Students describe ways technology can influence personal health.

Technology and Health

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

Describe how peers and culture can influence health practices and behaviors.

Describe how family, school, and community influence and support personal health practices and behaviors.

Students describe how a variety of factors influence personal health behaviors.

Influences on Health Practices/Behaviors

Influences on Health: Students analyze the ability of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors to enhance health.

Students demonstrate strategies that can be used to manage stress, anger, or grief.

Self-Management

Develop injury prevention and safety strategies for personal health.

Demonstrate healthy and safe ways to recognize, deal with, or avoid threatening situations.

Students demonstrate a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce personal health risks.

Avoiding/Reducing Health Risks

Demonstrate basic care of the human body.

Design healthy menus.

Students demonstrate age-appropriate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

Healthy Practices and Behaviors

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction: Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Students locate resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information.

Locating Health Resources

Students identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.

Validity of Resources

Health Information, Products and Services: Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, services, and products to enhance health.

Students define basic health concepts related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.

Basic Health Concepts

Students identify the general characteristics of human growth and development.

Growth and Development

Students describe ways a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.

Environment and Personal Health

Students describe ways to detect and treat common childhood diseases and other health problems.

Diseases/Other Health Problems

Students identify examples of physical, mental, emotional, and social health during childhood.

Dimensions of Health

Students explain the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Healthy Behaviors and Personal Health

Health Concepts: Students comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.