Third Grade Curriculum Resources
Standard of Learning
3.4 The student will demonstrate the ability to use health information to improve personal health. Key concepts/skills include:
- the use of health services and agencies to gain information;
- the ways in which health care has improved as a result of technology;
- the use of a variety of print, audiovisual, and electronic media resources.
Understanding the Standard
The student will be able to locate and access health services and agencies to obtain health information.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will:
- describe where to locate phone numbers for ambulance services, police departments and animal control agencies.
- identify health agencies that are responsible for water quality, transportation safety, drug treatment, hospital care, child care standards, etc.
Sample Lessons
Oral Health Education: Saving Smiles Series- “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”
Grade: 3
Lesson Plan (1) Develop an awareness of how the nutrient content of food and beverages affects body systems and can improve personal health. (SOL 3.1a, 3.4 a,b,c)
Lesson Plan (2) Describe the effects of nicotine products, including smokeless tobacco products, on body systems and the oral cavity. (SOL 3.3c)
Sponsor: Virginia Department of Health, Division of Dental Health
Contact: http://www.vahealth.org/teeth/OralHealthEducation.asp (curriculum resources)
Free
Healthy Eating: An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Grade(s): K-3
To make students aware of ways newspapers can teach about nutrition and good health
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Nutrition/NUT0004.html
Free
Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli?
Grade(s): 3-5
In this lesson students will understand why the body needs food, and how it takes necessary nutrients as food passes through the digestive system.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=58
Free
Lesson Ideas
- Assess the students' knowledge of important points in the emergencies lesson (ie., stay calm, call 911 or other emergency telephone numbers).
- Remind students that emergency numbers should be placed near the telephone.
- Have the students break into groups and pretend to be the person reporting the emergency, the injured person, the operator receiving the call, or the onlookers.
- NOTE: A 911 operator (or police, ambulance, fire station operator) would best be able to explain to students the importance of calling only in an emergency and how to do a good job reporting. This person could give a presentation. Then the students could role-play and he/she could give reinforcement.
- Use computer or phone book to locate local numbers.
- Locate websites for various health agencies; get contact information and write up.
Additional Instructional Resources
- Blue Web'n - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
- Consumer Product Safety Commission's Kidd Safety - http://www.education-world.com/parents/health/safety.shtml
- FunBrain.com - http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html
- Healthfinder – http://www.healthfinder.gov
- Health Teacher.com - http://www.healthteacher.com
- Internet Detectives - http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives
- McGraw-Hill School Division Teaching Resources - http://www.mmhschool.com
- Texas Department of Health - Kids Corner - http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/kids/default.shtm
Assessment Ideas
The student will:
- identify five health services or agencies.
- locate and access five health services or agencies to obtain health information.
