New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 8
Strand: Wellness
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate the impacts of food, screen time, and substance use/misuse on self and community.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe how food, screen time, and substance use can affect overall health (mental, social, emotional, and physical including brain development, etc.)
Analyze influences that lead youth to decide whether or not to misuse food, screen time, and harmful substances
Evaluate how healthy strategies to manage stress can prevent the misuse of food, screen time, and harmful substances, and harmful behaviours
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol on the Web
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- 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
- Selling Tobacco
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
Big Idea: Personal Safety
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate how media and technology influence the health and well-being of self and community.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss behaviours that promote a positive digital profile
Evaluate the impact of information (posted or shared) forever stored in cyberspace
Describe when it is appropriate to use a social media platform
Explain the benefits or harms of following certain people or groups online
Outline the law about sharing or securing sexually explicit images
Describe strategies to keep self and others safe online (luring, protecting personal information, identifying misinformation and disinformation, etc.)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Privacy Pursuit: My Privacy, Your Privacy
- Privacy Pursuit: The Value of Privacy
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- Where's The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Your Online Resume
Strand: Human Growth and Development
Big Idea: Healthy Sexuality
Skill Descriptor:
Examine the knowledge, responsibilities, and skills necessary to make informed decisions about becoming sexually active.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss the importance of communication for sexual decision-making, including consent and boundaries
List where to access sexual health services and supports
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:
Analyze how media present messages about bodies, sexuality, and relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Analyze how texts (media, social media, books, discourses among peer groups, etc.) impact ideas about healthy relationships and sexual activity
Analyze the impact of media on sexuality, gender roles, and equity
Discuss how the media portrays gender-based violence
Describe how pornography negatively influences ideas about relationships
Describe strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes
MediaSmarts Resources
- Comic Book Characters
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Media Kids
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Pornography Debate
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
Strand: Mental Fitness
Big Idea: Mental Fitness Strategies
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate behaviours/environments that help foster positive mental health and build resilience.
Achievement Indicators:
Analyze strategies that reduce stigma regarding mental health
Identify strategies to build own positive mental health
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:
Assess how decision-making impacts personal wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Examine their personal process used to make big or small decisions
Evaluate credible sources of health and safety information
Identify sources of health and safety misinformation and disinformation
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- 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
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
- Selling Tobacco
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Price of Happiness
- Tobacco Labels
Skill Descriptor:
Explore the five components of financial literacy.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss barriers and risks to responsible financial decision-making, including credit
MediaSmarts Resources
- #ForYou: The Algorithm Game
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Privacy Pursuit: The Value of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
Strand: Relationships
Big Idea: Healthy Relationships
Skill Descriptor:
Apply strategies to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Evaluate ways that power and control influence relationships
Examine healthy personal boundaries
Describe how to express needs and emotions
Develop strategies for responding to conflict, including handling rejection and ending a relationship
Model empathy and respectful communication when disagreeing, compromising, and/or negotiating
MediaSmarts Resources
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- That's Not Cool
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Big Idea: Bullying and Conflict
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate factors and influences that contribute to a safe society.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss the importance of relating to people as individuals and not representatives of groups
Analyze injustice in many forms including attitudes, speech, behaviours, practices, and laws
Discuss own responsibility to address stigma and discrimination
Discuss how to take action when witnessing bias, prejudice, exclusion, or discrimination
Outline legal responsibilities required to maintain positive and safe environments
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias in News Sources
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
- Thinking about Hate
- Unpacking Privilege
Big Idea: Anti-Discrimination
Skill Descriptor:
Assess ways to promote anti-discrimination.
Achievement Indicators:
Discuss the importance of relating to people as individuals and not representatives of groups
Analyze injustice in many forms including attitudes, speech, behaviours, practices, and laws
Discuss own responsibility to address stigma and discrimination
Discuss how to take action when witnessing bias, prejudice, exclusion, or discrimination
Outline legal responsibilities required to maintain positive and safe environments
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias in News Sources
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
- Thinking about Hate
- Unpacking Privilege