Grade 3 Health Montana standards Standards

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health and safety.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance personal health.

Identifying links between healthy choices and personal health;

Identifying body systems and their function including circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, digestive, and nervous.

Defining life skills that improve health and wellness;

Using goal-setting to practice healthy behaviors;

Describing various characteristics of physical, mental, emotional, family, and social health, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Explaining the difference between childhood communicable and noncommunicable diseases;

Identifying the potential sources of environmental factors that affect health;

Describing how health can be affected by school and community environments;

Identifying common childhood health problems;

Identifying situations that require health care; and

Describing ways family and culture influence personal health practices and behavior;

Describing ways that peers influence behavior;

Explaining ways the school can support personal health practices and behaviors;

Discussing ways the media can influence thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors;

Identifying types of technology that influence personal health; and

Describing ways that school and community policies promote health and safety.

Giving examples of valid health information, products, and services; and

Identifying resources available at home, school, tribe, and community that provide valid health information.

Expressing ways to show respect for self and others, including those of traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures and practices;

Identifying verbal and nonverbal refusal skills;

Recognizing conflict and applying nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict; and

Discussing situations when it is necessary to seek assistance for the health and safety of self and others.

Identifying routine safety and health-related situations;

Discussing situations when support is needed in making safety and health-related decisions;

Discussing various options to safety and health-related issues or problems;

Discussing possible consequences of choices when making safety and health-related decisions; and

Identifying outcomes for various safety, healthy, and unhealthy decisions.

Describing ways to set personal health goals; and

Explaining how friends, adults, and resources help in achieving a personal health goal.

Describing practices of healthy behaviors toward self and others;

Discussing reasons for responsible personal health behaviors; and

Identifying healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Sharing accurate information about a health issue;

Encouraging peers to make positive health choices; and

Discussing health-related messages and communication techniques.