New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 5

Strand: Wellness

Big Idea: Healthy Lifestyle

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

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Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices

Skill Descriptor:

Discuss the factors that influence healthy choices.

Achievement Indicators:

Describe how media can influence decision making

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Big Idea: Personal Safety

Skill Descriptor:

Select personal safety practices that promote injury prevention.

Achievement Indicators:

Discuss ways to give and withdraw consent

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Strand: Mental Fitness

Big Idea: Positive Mental Health

Skill Descriptor:

Identify ways to manage stress and regulate emotions.   

Achievement Indicators:

Identify what different emotions look, feel, and sound like

Discuss ways of managing emotions

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Big Idea: Decision-Making

Skill Descriptor:

Describe the impact of using strategies to promote healthy decision-making.  

Achievement Indicators:

    Identify healthy decisions that they want to make

    Set a personal goal and describe its impact on health and well-being

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Strand: Relationships

Big Idea: Healthy Relationships

Skill Descriptor:

Analyze how diversity enhances a community.   

Achievement Indicators:

    Define diversity in a community context

    Give examples of what diversity looks like in own communities

    Discuss ways to celebrate diversity in own communities

    Discuss what it means to be an ally

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Skill Descriptor:

Describe empathic responses and their impact on relationships.

Achievement Indicators:

    Give examples of verbal and non-verbal empathic responses

    Define empathy

    Discuss the importance of empathy in relationships

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Big Idea: Bullying and Conflict

Skill Descriptor:

Analyze the various types of bullying and appropriate response strategies.

Achievement Indicators:

    Distinguish between the various types of bullying

    Identify the role of the target, the aggressor, the bystander, and the upstander

    Describe effective strategies to respond to bullying situations

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Skill Descriptor:

Describe strategies to deal with conflict across a variety of relationships.

Achievement Indicators:

Describe appropriate strategies to resolve conflict given a variety of situations involving relationships

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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:

Engage in conversations with family, friends, and school staff about career pathways

Explore different activities people do in a variety of workplaces

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