Alberta – Physical Education and Wellness Grade 4
Safety
A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Guiding Question
How can taking responsibility impact safety?
Learning Outcome
Students analyze and explain responsibility and how it can impact personal and group safety.
Knowledge: Responsibility includes making decisions to ensure self or others are not in unsafe and uncomfortable situations.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Data Defenders
- Privacy Pirates
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
Understanding: Responsibility includes the opportunity, ability, or right to act independently or make decisions.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Data Defenders
- Privacy Pirates
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
Skills and Procedures: Describe responsibility and its impact on personal and group safety in a variety of contexts.
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Knowledge: Consent is critical to respecting the rights, feelings, and belongings of others.
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Understanding: Responsibility includes respecting the rights and feelings of others.
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Skills and Procedures: Identify situations where responsibility supports the rights and feelings of others.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Break the Fake: What's Real Online?
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
Knowledge: Responsibility occurs in a variety of contexts, such as
- home
- learning environment
- community
- online
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Responsibility includes making decisions when dealing with and handling a variety of substances.
Understanding: Responsibility includes an awareness of surroundings to determine the safety of a situation.
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Skills and Procedures: Examine how responsibility can impact safety in a variety of situations.
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Healthy Relationships
Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Guiding Question
How can resolving conflict and healthy relationships be mutually supportive?
Learning Outcome
Students reflect on resolution and explain connections to healthy relationships.
Knowledge
Conflict resolution can occur using a variety of strategies, such as
- creating a safe environment
- communicating respectfully
- negotiating and compromising
- reflecting on actions taken
- implementing appropriate solutions
- making repeated efforts to solve a problem
Resolution requires personal responsibility and acknowledgement of conflict.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online – Ethics and Empathy
- Introduction to Ethics - Avatars and Identity
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Skills and Procedures
Describe strategies that can be used to support resolution to a problem, conflict, or challenge.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online – Ethics and Empathy
- Introduction to Ethics - Avatars and Identity
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Knowledge
Bullying behaviour can be seen or experienced
- verbally
- socially
- relationally
- physically
- digitally
Roles of individuals in situations of bullying include the bully, the bullied, and the bystander.
Actions to address bullying include
- speaking up
- walking away
- getting help
- safely intervening
- reporting the incident
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online – Ethics and Empathy
- Introduction to Ethics - Avatars and Identity
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Understanding
Individuals have the right to live in healthy, safe, and bully-free environments.
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Skills and Procedures
Recognize harmful bullying behaviours.
Identify actions that can be taken when bullying occurs.