Overall Expectations:
- Learners will analyse how life skills influence physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual health
- Learners will analyse the relationships between health behaviours and physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual health
- Learners will reflect on the importance of mental health literacy
Specific Expectations:
- Analyse ways in which peer, media, and social norms influence healthy decision-making
- Investigate heathy behaviours for using new technologies and media
- Analyse food choices and eating habits that contribute to health
- Evaluate ways of effectively managing a stress response
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Game Time
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- 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
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Mirror Image
- Packaging Tricks
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Scientific Detectives
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- TV Stereotypes
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Overall Expectations:
Learners will evaluate ways to access reliable sexual health information that positively impacts adolescent sexual and reproductive health
Specific Expectations:
Analyse how body image impacts adolescent health
MediaSmarts Resources
Overall Expectations:
Learners will reflect on how relationships impact physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual health
Specific Expectations:
- Formulate ways for engaging in safe relationships online and offline
- Analyse ways of recognizing healthy and unhealthy relationships
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- That’s Not Cool
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Overall Expectations:
Learners will reflect on the impact of substance misuse on adolescent health
Specific Expectations:
Investigate the harms associated with the use and co-use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, vaping products, caffeine and prescription drugs
MediaSmarts Resources