Outcome Chart - Ontario - Physical and Health Education Grade 2

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 2 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Healthy Living

Overall Expectations

By the end of Grade 2, 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

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

Healthy Eating

C2.1 use Canada’s Food Guide to assess the nutritional value of meals (e.g., in terms of food groups and number and size of servings), and identify food and beverage choices that enhance healthy growth and development

C2.2 demonstrate an understanding of how to make healthy food choices for meals and snacks, considering the factors they can and cannot control (e.g., the food that’s available in the home; the food that’s available when eating out; energy needed at different times of day; allergies; food guidelines associated with medical conditions such as diabetes or celiac disease; food safety related to food preparation, storage, handling, and cleanliness)

Lessons

Eating Under the Rainbow

Looking at Food Advertising

Packaging Tricks

Educational Games

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