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Grade 3 – Healthy Living

Grade 3 Overall Expectations:

1 – Understanding Health Concepts

Healthy Eating

Demonstrate an understanding of how the origins of food affect its nutritional value and how those factors and others can affect the environment

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Demonstrate an understanding of concussions and how they occur, as well as an awareness of the school board’s concussion protocol

Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours

Demonstrate an understanding of different types of legal and illegal substance use and both the mental and physical impacts of problematic use of these substances on themselves and others

Development and Sexual Health

Identify the characteristics of healthy relationships and describe ways of responding to bullying and other challenges and of communicating consent in their interactions with others

Identify factors that affect physical development and/or emotional development

Mental Health Literacy

Explain how the brain responds when it thinks there is a threat and how that response might affect thoughts, emotions, and actions

2 – Making Healthy Choices

Healthy Eating

Demonstrate an understanding of good oral health to overall health, and assess the effect of different food choices on oral health

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Apply their understanding of good safety practices by developing safety guidelines for a variety of places and situations outside the classroom, including online

Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours

Apply decision-making strategies to make healthy choices about behaviours and the use of various substances in ways that could lead to dependencies, identifying factors that should be considered

3 –  Making Connections for Healthy Living

Healthy Eating

Explain how local fresh foods and foods from different cultures can be used to expand their range of healthy eating choices

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Explain how the portrayal of fictional violence in various media, both on- and offline, can create an unrealistic view of consequences of real violence

Human Development and Sexual Health

Describe how visible differences and invisible differences make each person unique, and identify ways of showing respect for differences in others

Mental Health Literacy

Reflect on external factors, including environmental factors, that may contribute to experiencing a range of strong feelings, including uncomfortable feelings such as worry and identify ways to help them manage these feelings