Grade 5 Overall Expectations:
1 – Understanding Health Concepts
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Identify trusted people and support services that can assist with injury prevention, emotional distress, emergencies, bullying, non-consensual photo sharing and other non-consensual behaviour, and abusive and violent situations
- Under Our Clothes (Book)
- Kids Help Phone (Website)
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
Describe the short- and long- term effects of alcohol abuse, and identify factors that can affect intoxication
- Alcohol Abuse (Hoopla eBook)
- Understanding Alcohol (Hoopla eBook)
- Youth and Alcohol (Website)
- Alcohol and the Teenage Brain (YouTube)
Human Development and Sexual Health
Identify the parts of the reproductive system, and describe how the body changes during puberty
- Will Puberty Last My Whole Life (Book)
- Changes In You And Me A Book About Puberty, Mostly For Boys (Book)
- Changes In You And Me A Book About Puberty Mostly For Girls (Book)
- Puberty (Hoopla eBook)
- How to Survive Anxiety and Puberty (Website)
- Hygiene Basics (Website)
- Puberty and Growing Up (Website)
- All About Periods (Website)
- Getting Your Period at School (Website)
- All About Boys Puberty (YouTube)
- What is Puberty? Decoding Puberty in Girls (YouTube)
- Staying Healthy During Puberty (YouTube)
Describe the processes of menstruation and spermatogenesis, and explain how these processes relate to reproduction and overall development
- Your Growing Body And Remarkable Reproductive System (Book)
- Reproduction System (Hoopa eBook)
- Welcome to the Reproductive System (Website)
- Female Reproductive System (Website)
- Male Reproductive System(Website)
- Spermatogenesis Made Easy (YouTube)
2 – Making Healthy Choices
Healthy Eating
Explain how to use nutrition facts tables and ingredient lists on food labels to make healthier personal food choices
- Janice VanCleave’s Food And Nutrition For Every Kid (Book)
- Nutrition Basics (Hoopla eBook)
- Canada’s Food Guide (Website)
- Use Food Labels (Website)
- Figuring Out Food Labels (Website)
- Tesco Eat Healthy Project (YouTube)
- Nutrition Fact Labels (YouTube)
- The Food Label and You: Are You Smarter Than A Food Label? (YouTube)
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Demonstrate the ability to deal with threatening situations by applying social-emotional learning skills
- Ramp Rats (Tumblebook eBook)
- Protect Yourself Rules – Bullying (YouTube)
- Protect Yourself (YouTube)
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
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
- Peer Pressure: Deal with it without losing your cool (Book)
- I Said No! Refusal Skills (Book)
- Small Talk: Peer Pressure (YouTube)
- Handling Peer Pressure: Drinking and Smoking (YouTube)
- PSA: Peer Pressure (YouTube)
Human Development and Sexual Health
Identify intersecting factors that affect the development of a person’s self-concept, including their sexual orientation, and how these factors can support their personal health and wellbeing
- It Feels Good To Be Yourself A Book About Gender Identity (Book)
- Transphobia: Deal With It And Be A Gender Transcender (Book)
- George (Book)
- The Relationship (Kanopy eVideo)
- Your Child’s Self Esteem (Website)
- Range of Gender Identities (YouTube)
- What is Sexual Orientation? LGBTQ+ (YouTube)
Describe emotional and interpersonal stresses related to puberty, recognize signs that could indicate mental health concerns, and identify strategies that they can apply to manage stress, build resilience, keep open communication with family members and caring adults, and enhance their mental health and emotional well-being
- Stick Up For Yourself Every Kid’s Guide To Personal Power And Positive Self-esteem (Book)
- Positive Psychology 4 Kids (Hoopla eBook)
- Talking to Parents or Other Adults (Website)
- Stress Management Techniques (YouTube)
- Puberty: Feeling Depressed, Happy and Other Emotions (YouTube)
- Taking Care of Your Body During Puberty (YouTube)
Mental Health Literacy
Demonstrate an understanding of their role, and the limits of their role, in helping others who may need mental health support
- Good Mental Health (Hoopla eBook)
- Understanding Mental Health (Hoopla eBook)
- Physical Wellness and Mental Health (Website)
- Wellness Together (Website)
- Talking Mental Health (YouTube)
- Break the Stigma (YouTube)
3 – Making Connections for Healthy Living
Healthy Eating
Describe how advertising, food marketing, and media affect food choices and explain how these in
- Made You Look: How Advertising Works And Why You Should Know (Book)
- Let’s Find Ads On Food Packages (Hoopla eBook)
- Asking Questions About Food Advertising (Hoopla eBook)
- How to talk to your kids about marketing (Website)
- Junk Food Ads and Kids (YouTube)
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Explain how a person’s actions, either in person or online, including making homophobic or other hurtful comments, can affect their own and others’ feelings, self-concept, mental health and emotional well-being, and reputation
- Bullying: How To Deal With Taunting, Teasing, And Tormenting (Book)
- Teasing: Not Just Harmless Fun (YouTube)
- Power of Words (YouTube)
- How To Be A LGBTQIA+ Ally (YouTube)
- Digital Citizenship and You! (YouTube)
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
Identify personal and social factors that can affect a person’s decision to drink alcohol or use cannabis at different points in their life
- Alcohol Abuse (Hoopla eBook)
- What You Need to Know About Drugs (Website)
- Addition and the Brain for Kids! (YouTube)
- Cannabis Questions: Teens Get Answers (YouTube)
- Cannabis: Important things to know (Website)
Mental Health Literacy
Demonstrate an understanding of how our attitudes about mental health affect those around us and how they might contribute to or prevent creating stigma
- Positive Mental Health and Well Being (Website)
- Stigma and Discrimination (Website)
- TedX Talk: Mental Health Literacy (YouTube)
- Break the Stigma (YouTube)