Teaching Tool - Healthy Relationships (Grade 3)
These resources teach students about the characteristics of healthy relationships. They also teach challenges that might happen when forming and developing relationships with others (i.e., bullying).
Learning goals
- I will identify the characteristics of healthy relationships
- I will describe ways of responding to bullying and other challenges
- I will find ways to communicate consent in responding to and dealing with others
Ontario curriculum expectations
Grades 1-8: Health and Physical Education (2019)
- D1.4 identify the characteristics of healthy relationships and describe ways of responding to bullying and other challenges and of communicating consent in their actions with others. This specific expectation is also connected to the social-emotional learning expectations A1.1 Emotions, 1.2 Coping and 1.4 Relationships.
Supplementary resources
- Healthy relationships and relationship challenges (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association): In this lesson, students will learn about the characteristics of a healthy relationship and positive ways to overcome relationship challenges. They will also learn how relationship challenges can be a source of stress and ways that we can cope with these feelings.
- Respecting visible and invisible differences (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association): In this lesson, students will learn how visible and invisible differences make each person unique. They will learn to identify ways of showing respect for differences in others, how to respond to relationship challenges and to communicate consent in interactions with others.
- Healthy relationships and development (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association): In this lesson, students will learn about the characteristics of a healthy relationship and ways of overcoming challenges in a relationship. They will learn to identify ways of showing respect for differences in others and to communicate consent in interactions with others.
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