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Overall Expectations
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
C1. demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to healthy development;
C2. demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and well-being;
C3. demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being.
Specific Expectations
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
C1.1 identify people (e.g., parents, guardians, neighbours, teachers, crossing guards, police, older students, coaches, elders) and supportive services (e.g., help lines, 9-1-1, Telehealth, public health units, student services) that can assist with injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, and abusive and violent situations
Healthy Eating
C2.1 explain how to use nutrition facts tables and ingredient lists on food labels to make healthier personal food choices
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
C2.3 demonstrate the ability to apply decision-making, assertiveness, and refusal skills to deal with pressures pertaining to alcohol use or other behaviours that could later lead to addiction (e.g., smoking, drug use, gambling)
Healthy Eating
C3.1 describe how advertising and media influences affect food choices (e.g., TV commercials, product packaging, celebrity endorsements, product placements in movies and programs, idealized body images in movies and programs, magazine articles promoting fad diets), and explain how these influences can be evaluated to make healthier choices (e.g., critically examining the reasons for celebrity endorsements or the plausibility of product claims, checking whether there is information in the advertisement that verifies the claims, asking for information about product ingredients and nutrients, critically examining the reality and healthiness of idealized body images in the media, evaluating diet plans against accepted nutritional criteria such as those used in Canada’s Food Guide)
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
C3.2 explain how a person’s actions (e.g., negative actions such as name calling, making homophobic or racist remarks, mocking appearance or ability, excluding, bullying, sexual harassment; positive actions such as praising, supporting, including) can affect the feelings, self-concept, emotional well-being, and reputation of themselves and others
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
C3.3 identify personal and social factors (e.g., emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, cultural, legal, media, and peer influences) that can affect a person’s decision to drink alcohol at different points in his or her life |
Lessons
Do You Believe This Camel?
”He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Freedom to Smoke
Introduction to Cyberbullying : Avatars and Identity
Junk Food Jungle
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Young Drinkers
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
Looking At Food Advertising
Looks Good Enough to Eat
Packaging Tricks
The True Story
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick
Educational Games
Passport to the Internet (Licensed Resource) |
