Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Physical and Health Education Grade 3

Big Ideas

  • Adopting healthy personal practices and safety strategies protects ourselves and others.  
  • Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.  
  • Our physical, emotional, and mental health are interconnected.  

Overall Expectations:

Healthy and Active living

  • Explore and describe strategies for making healthy eating choices in a variety of settings
  • Describe ways to access information on and support services for a variety of health topics
  • Explore and describe strategies for pursuing personal healthy-living goals

Social and Community health

  • Identify and describe avoidance or assertiveness strategies to use in unsafe and/or uncomfortable situations
  • Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining positive relationships
  • Explain how participation in outdoor activities supports connections with the community and environment

Mental Well-being

  • Identify and apply strategies that promote mental well-being
  • Describe physical, emotional, and social changes as students grow older
  • Describe factors that influence mental well-being and self-identity

Specific Expectations

Students are expected to know the following:

  • nutrition and hydration choices to support different activities and overall health
  • strategies for accessing health information
  • strategies and skills to use in potentially hazardous, unsafe, or abusive situations
  • nature and consequences of bullying
  • effects of different substances, and strategies for preventing personal harm
  • relationship between worries and fears
  • factors that influence self-identity

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