Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Healthy Living 9

Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate health behaviours that promote short-term and long-term health

Specific Expectations:

Analyse the impact of sleep on youth health and well-being

Analyse the impact of technology use on health and well-being

Investigate healthy behaviours that contribute to disease prevention

Reflect on the ways that personal identity can shape health related decisions

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will analyse ways to care for one’s own sexual and reproductive health

Specific Expectations:

Identify how to find accurate and reliable information about sexual and reproductive health

Determine when and where to find options, supports, and treatments for issues that can impact health

Investigate the factors that influence decision making relating to sexual health

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will investigate ways to access health resources that support health and well-being

Specific Expectations:

Investigate ways of increasing health literacy

Identify places to access reliable health information and health care

Investigate ways to navigate the healthcare system

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will develop communication skills that support the growth and maintenance of healthy relationships

Specific Expectations:

Select language to use when expressing needs, disagreement, and perspectives within relationships

Use assertiveness, negotiation, and refusal skills across various relational scenarios

Analyse the impact of various conflict resolution strategies

Reflect on the impacts of language used online and offline

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will reflect on conditions that positively counter harmful gender norms, stereotypes, and biases within relationships

Specific Expectations:

Identify the conditions that influence gender norms, practices, and behaviours

Investigate the requirements for balanced power dynamics in relationships

Investigate actions that promote gender equality

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate responses to gender-based violence

Specific Expectations:

Analyse the ways that societal conditions, norms, and behaviours can contribute to gender-based violence

Investigate ways to counter behaviours that contribute to gender-based violence

Identify ways to support someone who experiences, witnesses, or hears about gender-based violence

Identify strategies for getting help in abusive relationships

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will investigate ways to care for one’s personal safety and ways to prevent injury online and offline

Specific Expectations:

Investigate rights and responsibilities of engagement in online spaces

Investigate ways to prevent, navigate, and respond to online victimization

Identify ways for setting and respecting personal boundaries of self and others

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will develop bystander intervention skills across a variety of emergency and risk scenarios

Specific Expectations:

Identify emergency and risk scenarios

Determine actions to take in a variety of emergency and risk scenarios

Investigate ways to overcome barriers that may prevent people from intervening

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate healthy ways to navigate change and/or challenging life circumstances

Specific Expectations:

Identify protective factors that support resilience in times of change

Investigate ways for coping with feelings associated with life challenges

Identify practices for rest, relaxation, fun

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate the impact of addiction on physical, mental, emotional, spiritual health

Specific Expectations:

Analyse the influence of enablers and protective factors along a continuum of use

Investigate the impacts of various kinds of addictions on self and others

Analyse the ways that ongoing substance use and co-use impact the dimensions of health

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