3rd Grade

Create a Health Club

Goals

Students will meet these goals:

Identify behaviors that reduce health risks
Identify behaviors that increase health risks
Explain strategies for maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health
Use social skills to build and maintain healthy relationships
Research and present ideas that persuade an audience to make healthy choices
Write a persuasive text to influence an audience
Employ the essential skills of logical thinking, creative problem solving, intellectual risk taking, and communication

Scholars learned about the following exercises:

Core Strength
Upper Extremity Strength
Lower Extremity Strength, and
Bilateral Coordination

Exercises were journaled, scholars demonstrated them, and then selected ten to create a "health club handbook." Each scholar had autonomy to identify the exercises they would advertise in their booklet. Scholars were shown four different ways to illustrate the exercises for their booklets and selected the process that they were most comfortable with.