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
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
Skill Descriptor:
Discuss the factors that influence healthy choices.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe how media can influence decision making
MediaSmarts Resources
- Data Defenders
- Editing Emotions
- Game Time
- Image Gap
- Junk Food Jungle
- 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
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Mirror Image
- Packaging Tricks
- Pay For Play
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6
Big Idea: Personal Safety
Skill Descriptor:
Select personal safety practices that promote injury prevention.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss ways to give and withdraw consent
MediaSmarts Resources
- Privacy Pursuit: My Privacy, Your Privacy
- That's Not Cool
- Where's The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
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
MediaSmarts Resources
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
MediaSmarts Resources
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
MediaSmarts Resources
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
MediaSmarts Resources
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
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
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
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
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