Outcome Chart - Ontario - Food and Nutrition Grade 9/10 HFN 1O/2O
Nutrition and Health
Overall Expectations
Body Image and Attitudes about Food: demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to a positive body image and healthy attitudes about food.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- describe positive and negative influences on body image (e.g., cultural, social, media, peer group, family)
- outline strategies for achieving and maintaining a positive body image and healthy attitudes about food (e.g., critically examining media messages, educating oneself about trends, using positive self-talk, setting priorities, participating in varied activities, talking with others)
Lessons that meet Grade 9/10 expectations
- Gender and Tobacco
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Research and Inquiry Skills
Overall Expectations
- Exploring: explore topics related to food and nutrition, and formulate questions to guide their research
- Investigating: create research plans, and locate and select information relevant to their chosen topics, using appropriate social science research and inquiry methods
- Processing Information: assess, record, analyse, and synthesize information gathered through research and inquiry
- Communicating and Reflecting: communicate the results of their research and inquiry clearly and effectively, and reflect on and evaluate their research, inquiry, and communication skills.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- explore a variety of topics related to explore a variety of topics related to equity and social justice
- explore a variety of topics related to world cultures and/or cultural groups (e.g., Canadian food regulations, food safety, school food regulations) to identify topics for research and inquiry to identify topics for research and inquiry
- identify key concepts (e.g., through discussion, brainstorming, use of visual organizers) related to their selected topics
- formulate effective questions to guide their research and inquiry
- create appropriate research plans to investigate their selected topics (e.g., outline purpose and method; identify sources of information), ensuring that their plans follow guidelines for ethical research
- locate and select information relevant to their investigations from a variety of primary sources
- based on preliminary research, for each investigation formulate a hypothesis, thesis statement, or research question, and use it to focus their research
- assess various aspects of information gathered from primary and secondary sources (e.g., accuracy, relevance, reliability, inherent values and bias, voice)
- analyse and interpret research information
- synthesize findings and formulate conclusions
- demonstrate academic honesty by documenting the sources of all information generated through research
- demonstrate an understanding of the general research process by reflecting on and evaluating their own research, inquiry, and communication skills
Lessons that meet Secondary expectations
- Alcohol on the Web
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Taming the Wild Wiki