Skill Descriptor:
Describe the impacts of food, substance, and screen time use/misuse on health and well-being.
Achievement Indicators:
Use decision-making and refusal skills to deal with pressures around food choice, harmful substance, and screen time.
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate the impacts of food, screen time, and substance use/misuse on self and community.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe how food, screen time, and substance use can affect overall health (mental, social, emotional, and physical including brain development, etc.)
Analyze influences that lead youth to decide whether or not to misuse food, screen time, and harmful substances
Students in the Elementary Block discuss “topics such as diversity, empathy, conflict, and relationships [and] develop a stronger sense of global citizenship.” Concepts addressed include use and misuses of substances, food, and screen time; personal safety; digital citizenship; emotions and decision-making; diversity; friendships and bullying, and career pathways.
Skill Descriptor:
Explore personal health habits that contribute to wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe healthy eating habits
List healthy food choices for meals and snacks
Skill Descriptor:
Skill Descriptor:
Describe personal health habits that contribute to wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Explain how food and drink labels can provide information about food
Skill Descriptor:
Skill Descriptor:
Assess personal health habits and their relationship to wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Assess the effects of personal screen time
Connect personal habits to health and well-being
Social Studies learners in the Middle Block “engage in participatory citizenship and explore civics in their region and around the globe including elections, the democratic process, and civic engagement” along with issues of representation and rights. Specific content focuses on civic engagement, cultural systems and youth rights.
At this level, Social Studies “develops skills to ask questions about who decides what is significant enough to be studied, represented, and commemorated; how we know what we know; and what has changed and what has stayed the same.”
Connections to digital media literacy largely fall within the Civics strand, which focuses on government and governance and the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens.
Skill Descriptor:
Examine selected issues relating to human rights legislation around the world.
Achievement Indicators:
Give examples of rights included in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Outline selected examples of current human rights violations
Skill Descriptor:
Take age-appropriate actions to demonstrate an understanding of responsibilities as global citizens.
Achievement Indicators:
Assess perspectives on a contemporary local, national, or international issue
Identify the historical roots of a selected issue
Compare with examples of empowerment and disempowerment discussed in this course