New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 7
Strand: Wellness
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
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.
MediaSmarts Resources
Big Idea: Personal Safety
Skill Descriptor:
Examine how media and technology influence health and well-being.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss how media can influence personal and social decision-making
Discuss rights and responsibilities around social media use
Explain how to balance personal use of technology with other goals
Apply critical thinking skills to examine advertising messages
Explain online safety strategies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Buy Nothing Day
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Game Time
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- Selling Tobacco
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- Where's The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Strand: Human Growth and Development
Big Idea: Healthy Sexuality
Skill Descriptor:
Discuss how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with sexuality are natural and occur throughout one’s lifespan.
Achievement Indicators:
Define sexual health
Describe consent and give examples of what it looks and sounds like
MediaSmarts Resources
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
Big Idea: Self-Image
Skill Descriptor:
Discuss how media present messages about sexuality and relationships that can influence body image and self-worth.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss how media influence ideals of beauty and how this can affect a person’s beliefs about their body image and sense of self-worth
Describe how media influence social and cultural norms to change over time
Identify how advertising targets children and youth
Analyse media messages about gender expression, gender roles, and equity
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Comic Book Characters
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Media Kids
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Strand: Mental Fitness
Big Idea: Mental Fitness Strategies
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze the impact of mental health on well-being.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss the impact of stigma related to mental health
Practice stress management strategies to promote personal well-being
MediaSmarts Resources
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
Big Idea: Decision-Making
Skill Descriptor:
Describe the five components of financial literacy.
Achievement Indicators:
Identify barriers and risks to responsible financial decision-making
List where to find support for financial decision-making
MediaSmarts Resources
Strand: Relationships
Big Idea: Healthy Relationships
Skill Descriptor:
Describe strategies to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss the benefits of setting healthy personal boundaries
Explain the importance of building connections with individuals even when we are different or when we disagree
Model strategies and communication techniques that build healthy relationships.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Hate or Debate
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- That's Not Cool
Big Idea: Bullying and Conflict
Skill Descriptor:
Develop skills for responding to conflict, bullying, and violence.
Achievement Indicators:
Demonstrate self and social awareness around own behaviours in bullying and conflict situations
Identify characteristics of an environment that tolerates “othering”
Explain two or three strategies used to reduce conflict in own relationships
Model conflict resolution strategies.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- Scapegoating and Othering
- That's Not Cool
- Thinking about Hate
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Unpacking Privilege
- Where's The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Big Idea: Anti-Discrimination
Skill Descriptor:
Examine ways to promote anti-discrimination.
Achievement Indicators:
Analyze how human rights protect diverse societies
Assess the impact of bias, discrimination, and stereotyping
List ways to show acceptance, inclusion, and respect for community members and take a respectful stand against discrimination
Describe affirming language
Discuss the difference between racist and antiracist statements and behaviours
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Images of Learning
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Stereotyping and Genre
- That's Not Cool
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Unpacking Privilege