Outcome Chart - Ontario - Physical and Health Education Grade 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 8 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Healthy Living

Overall Expectations

By the end of Grade 8, 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

C2.2 demonstrate the ability to assess situations for potential dangers (e.g., getting into a car with a stranger or an impaired, unlicensed, or inexperienced driver; dependencies or coercion in dating relationships; joining gangs; participating in violence; attending a party where alcohol or drugs are being used; using cosmetic procedures or treatments such as piercing, tattooing, crash diets, or artificial tanning that involve potential health risks), and apply strategies for avoiding dangerous situations

Healthy Eating

C3.1 identify strategies for promoting healthy eating within the school, home, and community (e.g., implementing school healthy food policies, launching healthy-eating campaigns, choosing healthy food items to sell in fundraising campaigns, getting involved in family meal planning, learning food preparation skills, urging local restaurants to highlight healthy food choices)

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

C3.2 analyse the impact of violent behaviours, including aggression, anger, swarming, dating violence, and gender-based or racially based violence, on the person being targeted, the perpetrator, and bystanders, and describe the role of support services in preventing violence (e.g., help lines, school counsellors, social workers, youth programs, shelters, restorative justice programs)

Lessons

Cyberbullying and Civic Participation

Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 7 - 8)

Looks Good Enough to Eat

Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics

Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds

Educational Games

CyberSense and Nonsense

Jo Fool or Jo Cool

Passport to the Internet (Licensed Resource)