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This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 5 Health and Physical Education 1-8 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Healthy Living | |
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 ”He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports Introduction to Cyberbullying : Avatars and Identity 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 Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6 Educational Games Passport to the Internet (Licensed Resource) |
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