New Brunswick - Personal Wellness 9
Strand: Wellness
Big Idea: Healthy Lifestyle
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate knowledge of health habits that have a positive impact on self.
Achievement Indicators:
Conduct an audit of personal health habits
Develop a personal plan for healthy living
Assess the effectiveness of various health habits to prevent the spread of communicable diseases
MediaSmarts Resources
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices
Skill Descriptor:
Apply strategies that have a positive impact on food, screen time, and substance use/misuse.
Achievement Indicators:
Analyze how food, screen time, and substances may affect an individual’s health (e.g., mental, social, emotional, and physical including brain development)
Analyze health, interpersonal, and legal concerns about the use and abuse of legal and illegal substances
Discuss how the use or misuse of food, screen time, and substances is personal and looks different for every individual
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol on the Web
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- 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
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
- Selling Tobacco
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
Big Idea: Personal Safety
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate competency in healthy interactions with media and technology.
Achievement Indicators:
Develop criteria for effective digital citizenship
Identify laws about sharing or securing sexually explicit images
Assess strategies to keep self and others safe online (e.g., luring, protecting personal information, identifying misinformation and disinformation, reporting unsafe behaviours/conditions, etc.)
Analyse the accuracy and purposes of online information and messages
Reflect on and share personal positive digital practices and behaviours
MediaSmarts Resources
- Authentication Beyond the Classroom
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Consensus or Conspiracy?
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Hate 2.0
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Technology Facilitated Violence: Criminal Case Law
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Strand: Human Growth and Development
Big Idea: Personal Growth
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate care, sensitivity, and respect for identities and for changes that occur during adolescence.
Achievement Indicators:
Demonstrate understanding of diverse identities
Discuss how comparing oneself to another person can be healthy or unhealthy
Demonstrate strategies to support positive identity development for self and peers during adolescence
MediaSmarts Resources
- Body Image and Social Media: Escaping the Comparison Trap
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- First Person
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
- The Price of Happiness
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Unpacking Privilege
- Who's Telling My Story?
Big Idea: Healthy Sexuality
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate the knowledge, responsibilities, and skills necessary to make informed decisions about becoming sexually active.
Achievement Indicators:
Assess factors that influence consent to and during sexual activity
Explain laws that govern consent
List resources and supports associated with promoting and maintaining sexual health
MediaSmarts Resources
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Big Idea: Self-Image
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze how media present messages about bodies, sexuality, and relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Reflect on how texts (e.g., media, social media, books, and discourses among peer groups) and social norms influence image of self and peers/community
Analyze the impact of media on healthy relationships, sexuality and sexual activity, gender roles, and equity
Discuss factors that contribute to identity-based violence, including media
Analyze the influence of media, including pornography, on own and societal ideas about relationships and sexuality
MediaSmarts Resources
- Body Image and Social Media: Escaping the Comparison Trap
- Body Positive Ads
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Sex in Advertising
- Technology Facilitated Violence: Criminal Case Law
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Pornography Debate
- The Price of Happiness
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Strand: Mental Fitness
Big Idea: Mental Fitness Strategies
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate skills to improve mental fitness
Achievement Indicators:
Develop strategies that reduce stigma regarding mental illness
MediaSmarts Resources
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
Strand: Relationships
Big Idea: Healthy Relationships
Skill Descriptor:
Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power, and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships, including sexual relationships.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe strategies for seeking, giving, withdrawing, and denying consent
Describe the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, including repairing harm
Demonstrate the cultivation of positive relationships with a variety of individuals and groups
MediaSmarts Resources
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Big Idea: Bullying and Conflict
Skill Descriptor:
Identify strategies for navigating situations where their own or others’ health, safety, or wellbeing may be at risk.
Achievement Indicators:
Examine and identify impact of own biases and lenses on community
Identify different types of conflict resolution strategies and when to best use each
Reflect on and share bullying and violent behavior (physical, emotional, and social), including in online spaces
MediaSmarts Resources
- Challenging Hate Online
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Scapegoating and Othering
- That's Not Cool
Big Idea: Anti-Discrimination
Skill Descriptor:
Assess strategies to enact anti-discrimination practices in their communities.
Achievement Indicators:
Demonstrate a positive commitment to upholding human rights
Demonstrate attitudes and behaviours that enable people to live together civilly
Respond to and share diverse cultural expressions.
Respond consistently and effectively when witnessing prejudice, bias, or discrimination
Describe legal responsibilities required to maintain positive and safe environments