Grades 3-5 (2022-2023)

2020 New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Health/Phys Ed, by the end of Grade 5

2.1: Personal and Mental Health

2.2: Physical Wellness (*Most are addressed in Physical Education)

2.3: Safety

Grades 3-5 Health and Physical Education 2020 Standards Alignment

The chart below shows the unit in which each standard is addressed - click on it to open it in a new window.  Students must "meet" the standard by the end of Grade 5, so where a standard is addressed in an earlier grade, the content or concept is introduced but may not include all of the related content. These lessons are considered building blocks to meeting the standard by the end of Grade 5.  You can review the unit below for information about how it is addressed in each grade level.

Key:

Standard includes new content - Color Coded Yellow

2020 Health and Physical Education Standard Alignment: 3-5

Updated Grades 3-5 Health Curriculum (aligned to 2020 standards)

The units below are PDF exports of the curriculum published in Rubicon Atlas, which is our official curriculum platform.  They represent the proposed revisions to the curriculum, aligned to the 2020 Health and Physical Education Standards.  All units have been aligned to the revised standards, but only those units highlighted in dark green contain any changes to units previously taught when aligned to the 2014 Health and Physical Education standards.

New Content in Grade 3 (2020 NJSLS in Health and Physical Education)

New Content in Grade 4 (2020 NJSLS in Health and Physical Education)

New Content in Grade 5 (2020 NJSLS in Health and Physical Education)

Archived Grades 3-5 Health and Physical Education Curriculum (aligned to 2014 NJSLS)