Grade 3 Lesson Plans

The Grade 3 Lessons include six 45-minute lessons that support the Alberta Education Program of Studies, 2002. The lessons focus on improving and practising positive health habits and cover concepts such as safety rules, healthy alternatives to alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling, the importance of personal goals and role models, the benefits of healthy choices, the effects of positive and negative peer influence, and the importance of recognizing personal skills and assets. The lessons can be taught as a series or by themselves.

• Lesson 1: What's important? Knowing your facts, yourself and your role models
• Lesson 2: The importance of refusal skills
• Lesson 3: Safety around household products, medicines and other substances
• Lesson 4: I'd rather be…drug free! Finding alternatives to alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling
• Lesson 5: How friends are helpful
• Lesson 6: All About Me