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 (Hoopla eBook)
- Dealing with Bullies (And No One Gets Hurt) (Kanopy Video)
- 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 (Article, website)
- The Target is You! (Online Quiz, website)
- Alcohol and the Teenage Brain (YouTube video)
Human Development and Sexual Health
Identify the parts of the reproductive system, and describe how the body changes during puberty
- Puberty (Hoopla eBook)
- All About Boys Puberty (YouTube Video)
- What is Puberty? Decoding Puberty in Girls (YouTube Video)
- How to Survive Anxiety and Puberty (Article, website)
- Hygiene Basics (Article, website)
- Staying Healthy During Puberty (YouTube video)
- Puberty and Growing Up (Article, website)
- All About Periods (Article, website)
- Getting Your Period at School (Article, website)
Describe the processes of menstruation and spermatogenesis, and explain how these processes relate to reproduction and overall development
- Reproduction System (Hoopa eBook)
- Your Growing Body and Remarkable Reproductive System (EBSCO eBook)
- Welcome to the Reproductive System (Web Course)
- Spermatogenesis Made Easy (YouTube video)
- Female Reproductive System (Article, website)
- Male Reproductive System(Article, website)
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
- Canada’s Food Guide (Online Resource)
- Tesco Eat Healthy Project (YouTube Series)
- Nutrition Fact Labels (YouTube video)
- The Food Label and You: Are You Smarter Than A Food Label? (YouTube video)
- Use Food Labels (Article, website)
- Figuring Out Food Labels (Article, website)
- Mind, Body and Spirit: Exploring Healthy Options (Video, website)
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Demonstrate the ability to deal with threatening situations by applying social-emotional learning skills
- Physical Bullying (EBSCO eBook)
- Protect Yourself Rules – Bullying (YouTube Video)
- Staying Safe (EBSCO eBook)
- Protect Yourself (YouTube Video Series)
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
- Fitting In (EBSCO eBook)
- Binge Drinking (EBSCO eBook)
- Small Talk: Peer Pressure (YouTube Video)
- Handling Peer Pressure: Drinking and Smoking (YouTube video)
- PSA: Peer Pressure (YouTube Video)
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
- Your Child’s Self Esteem (Article, website)
- The Relationship (Kanopy Video)
- Identity and Gender (EBSCO eBook)
- Range of Gender Identities (YouTube Video)
- What is Sexual Orientation? LGBTQ+ (YouTube Video)
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
- Positive Psychology 4 Kids (Hoopla eBook)
- Talking to Parents or Other Adults (Article, website)
- Stress Management Techniques (YouTube video)
- Puberty: Feeling Depressed, Happy and Other Emotions (YouTube Video)
- Taking Care of Your Body During Puberty (YouTube Video)
Mental Health Literacy
Demonstrate an understanding of their role, and the limits of their role, in helping others who may need mental health support
- Talking Mental Health (YouTube Video)
- Physical Wellness and Mental Health (Article, website)
- Break the Stigma (YouTube Video)
- Kids Help Phone (Website )
3 – Making Connections for Healthy Living
Healthy Eating
Describe how advertising, food marketing, and media affect food choices and explain how these in
- Asking Questions About Food Advertising (Hoopla eBook)
- How to talk to your kids about marketing (Article, website)
- Junk Food Ads and Kids (YouTube Video)
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
- Teasing: Not Just Harmless Fun (YouTube Video)
- Power of Words (YouTube Video)
- How To Be A LGBTQIA+ Ally (YouTube Video)
- Digital Citizenship and You! (YouTube Video)
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 (Article, website)
- Addition and the Brain for Kids! (YouTube Video)
- Cannabis Questions: Teens Get Answers (YouTube Video)
- Cannabis: Important things to know (Article, website)
- Cannabis, Teens and Mental Health (YouTube Video)
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 (Article, website)
- Stigma and Discrimination (Article, website)
- TedX Talk: Mental Health Literacy (YouTube video)
- Break the Stigma (YouTube Video)