New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 4
Strand: Wellness
Big Idea: Healthy Lifestyle
Skill Descriptor:
Describe personal health habits that contribute to wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Explain how food and drink labels can provide information about food
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
Skill Descriptor:
Describe strategies to avoid the use of harmful substances.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe decision-making and refusal skills when offered harmful substances
MediaSmarts Resources
- Image Gap
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Mirror Image
Big Idea: Personal Safety
Skill Descriptor:
Describe ways of minimizing risks in potentially dangerous situations.
Achievement Indicators:
Explain how to assess situations to determine if they are safe or unsafe
Describe when safety strategies are needed
Define personal boundaries and consent
Describe ways to stay safe when using technology
MediaSmarts Resources
- Data Defenders
- Internet Time Capsule
- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: Protecting Your Privacy
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Stay on the Path Lesson Two: All That Glitters is Not Gold
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
Strand: Mental Fitness
Big Idea: Positive Mental Health
Skill Descriptor:
Describe the seven primary emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, embarrassment, and surprise) and their expression.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss how feelings are a source of information to help manage behavior and interactions with others
Identify emotions in others
Help others regulate their emotions
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Mental Health Strategies
Skill Descriptor:
Identify strategies for regulating emotional reactions.
Achievement Indicators:
List five strategies for regulating emotions
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Decision-Making
Skill Descriptor:
List strategies to promote healthy decision-making.
Achievement Indicators:
List ways to make proper decisions about own health and well-being
Set personal short-term goals
MediaSmarts Resources
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Packaging Tricks
Strand: Relationships
Big Idea: Healthy Relationships
Skill Descriptor:
Describe how appreciating diversity can positively influence relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Define diversity
Describe the difference between empathy and sympathy
List ways to show empathy
List ways to show appreciation of others
Describe how empathy and appreciation positively influence relationships
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- Wacky Media Songs: Ethics and Empathy
Big Idea: Bullying and Conflict
Skill Descriptor:
List the various types of bullying and appropriate response strategies.
Achievement Indicators:
List the various types of bullying
Describe ways to respond to the various types of bullying
MediaSmarts Resources
Skill Descriptor:
Describe strategies to resolve conflict.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe a recent situation where a personal strategy was applied to resolve conflict
MediaSmarts Resources
Strand: Career Connected Learning
Big Idea: Exploring Potential Career Pathways
Skill Descriptor:
Critically investigate and describe the labour market and preferred career pathways.
Achievement Indicators:
Connect strengths and interests to skills and knowledge
Engage in career conversations with family, friends, and school staff about career pathways
Explore activities people do in a variety of locations outside of school