Wellness
GCO 1: Students will make responsible and informed choices to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- SCO 1.1 assess personal health habits and their relationship to wellness
- SCO 1.2 analyze the impact of using strategies to promote healthy growth and development
- SCO 1.5 discuss the factors that may influence substance use or misuse
- SCO 1.6 select personal safety practices that promote injury prevention
MediaSmarts Resources
- Game Time
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Mirror Image
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
Mental Fitness
GCO 2: Students will develop positive mental health.
- SCO 2.1 identify sources and signs of stress, as well as, ways to manage it
- SCO 2.2 demonstrate methods for regulating emotions
- SCO 2.3 identify strategies for seeking support for self and for others
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Game Time
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
Relationships
GCO 3 Students will apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to establish and maintain healthy relationships.
- SCO 3.1 analyze how appreciating diversity enhances community relationships
- SCO 3.2 describe empathic responses and their impact on interpersonal relationships
- SCO 3.3 analyze the various types of bullying and appropriate strategies to respond
- SCO 3.4 analyze strategies to deal with conflict across a variety of interpersonal relationships.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Comic Book Characters
- Comparing Real Families to TV Families
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Introducing TV Families
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Stereotyping and Bias
- TV Stereotypes
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
- What do Halloween costumes say? - Lesson