Skill Descriptor: Explore personal health habits that contribute to wellness.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe healthy eating habits
• List healthy food choices for meals and snacks
• Tell why drinking water is important
• Describe moderate to vigorous physical activity and its benefits
• List physical activities that develop different parts of the body
• Show how to correctly wash hands
• Describe the t-zone
• Show how to sneeze or cough into own sleeve
• Show how to correctly brush and floss teeth

Skill Descriptor: Distinguish between helpful and harmful substances and their effects on health.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List three helpful substances for the body
• List three harmful substances for the body
• Describe the difference between helpful and harmful substances
• Explain the difference between proper use and abuse of substances

Skill Descriptor: List behaviours and procedures that contribute to personal safety.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe some qualities of a safe adult
• Describe a situation when they would talk to a safe adult
• Describe what consent over own body means
• Identify personal information and ways to protect it
• Identify when elements of a situation are unsafe
• List behaviours that will keep self and peers safe

Skill Descriptor: Describe how visible and invisible differences make each person unique.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• List visible differences
• List invisible differences
• Describe how they are unique as an individual

Skill Descriptor: Explore the importance of talking about emotions and emotional responses.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe positive and negative feelings
• Talk about feelings comfortably
• Recognize the feelings of others
• Describe emotional responses and their influence on behaviour

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate self-calming strategies to regulate emotional reactions.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List self-calming strategies
• Demonstrate self-calming strategies

Skill Descriptor: Explore strategies to promote healthy decision-making and goal-setting.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List the steps needed to make a healthy decision
• Explain why setting goals is important
• Set personal goals

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate acceptance of and appreciation for diversity.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, ICE, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• List examples of diversity
• Recognize that all people are diverse in different ways
• Describe ways to celebrate diversity in ourselves and others

Skill Descriptor: Identify strategies to build and enhance friendships.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe qualities of a good friend and how to be a good friend
• Describe ways to demonstrate appreciation for self and others
• Give examples of ways to maintain friendships

Skill Descriptor: Identify bullying and ways to prevent and intervene when it occurs.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Define bullying and conflict
• Distinguish between bullying and conflict
• List three ways to deal with bullying

Skill Descriptor: Describe strategies to resolve conflict.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Give examples of conflict
• Employ strategies to resolve conflict

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate an informed vision for the future linked to own interests, preferences, values, and abilities.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss different roles that adults have at work, at home, and in the community
• Explore ways to solve problems within the school and community

Skill Descriptor: Critically investigate and describe the labour market and preferred career pathways.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss skills and knowledge used by adults
• Engage in career conversations with family, friends, and school staff
• Explore different activities people do in a variety of locations outside of school

Skill Descriptor: Engage in frequent and ongoing career-connected experiential learning to learn about preferred career pathways and develop personal competencies.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore cross-curricular, career-connected experiential learning opportunities.
• Discuss the benefits of hobbies, and extra-curricular activities
• Discuss volunteering

Skill Descriptor: Describe personal health habits that contribute to wellness.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List the benefits of healthy eating
• Explain how food and drink labels can provide information about food
• List short-term effects of physical activity
• List long-term benefits of physical activity

Skill Descriptor: Describe strategies to avoid the use of harmful substances.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Give examples of peer pressure that encourage the use of harmful substances
• Describe decision-making and refusal skills when offered harmful substances

Skill Descriptor: Describe ways of minimizing risks in potentially dangerous situations.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain how to assess situations to determine if they are safe or unsafe
• Describe when safety strategies are needed
• Define personal boundaries and consent
• Describe ways to stay safe when using technology
• Describe ways to stay safe during outdoor activities

Skill Descriptor: Identify physical, emotional, and social changes that occur during puberty.

Global Competencies: CL, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• List physical changes that occur during puberty
• List emotional changes that occur during puberty
• List social changes that occur during puberty

Skill Descriptor: List personal hygiene practices related to puberty and well-being.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss personal hygiene practices related to puberty
• List the impact of some foods and beverages on oral health
• List three reasons why sleep is healthy

Skill Descriptor: Describe the seven primary emotions and their expression.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe the seven primary emotions (what they look like, how they feel, and how they are physically expressed)
• Discuss how feelings are a source of information to help manage behaviour and interactions with others
• Identify emotions in others
• Help others regulate their emotions

Skill Descriptor: Identify strategies for regulating emotional reactions.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List five strategies for regulating emotions

Skill Descriptor: List strategies to promote healthy decision-making.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List ways to make proper decisions about own health and well-being
• Set personal short-term goals

Skill Descriptor: Describe how appreciating diversity can positively influence relationships.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Define diversity
• Describe the difference between empathy and sympathy
• List ways to show empathy
• List ways to show appreciation of others
• Describe how empathy and appreciation positively influence relationships

Skill Descriptor: Identify the importance of communication to build and maintain healthy relationships.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe a healthy relationship
• Describe an unhealthy relationship
• List examples of positive communication
• Describe and demonstrate good listening skills

Skill Descriptor: List the various types of bullying and appropriate response strategies.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• List the various types of bullying
• Describe ways to respond to the various types of bullying

Skill Descriptor: Describe strategies to resolve conflict.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe a recent situation where a personal strategy was applied to resolve conflict

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate an informed vision for the future linked to own interests, preferences, values, and abilities.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss personal likes and dislikes
• Explore different types of career pathways
• Explore ways to address concerns within the school and community
• Reflect on and build a career-life portfolio

Skill Descriptor: Critically investigate and describe the labour market and preferred career pathways.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Connect strengths and interests to skills and knowledge
• Engage in career conversations with family, friends, and school staff about career pathways
• Explore activities people do in a variety of locations outside of school

Skill Descriptor: Engage in frequent and ongoing career-connected experiential learning to learn about preferred career pathways and develop personal competencies.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore cross-curricular, career-connected experiential learning opportunities.
• Discuss how people contribute to family, community, hobbies, and extra-curricular activities
• Discuss what it means to volunteer

Skill Descriptor: Assess personal health habits and their relationship to wellness.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss benefits of healthy eating
• List the basic functions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
• Assess the effects of personal screen time
• Discuss own feelings after physical activity
• Compare personal emotions when rested to when tired
• Connect personal habits to health and well-being

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the factors that influence healthy choices.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Give examples of healthy and unhealthy choices
• Distinguish between positive and negative peer pressure
• Describe how media can influence decision-making
• Describe how cultural norms and traditions can influence choices
• Describe a situation when decision-making and refusal skills are required to deal with pressure
• Describe how addiction can occur
• Identify effects of addiction on the brain

Skill Descriptor: Select personal safety practices that promote injury prevention.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe how to recognize an unsafe situation
• Discuss ways to give and withdraw consent
• Choose and describe appropriate risk-reduction strategies given a variety of situations

Skill Descriptor: Describe how the body changes during puberty.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss physical changes that occur during puberty at different times for different people
• Discuss how growth changes can be challenging during adolescence
• List the functions of the female reproductive organs
• List the functions of the male reproductive organs
• Summarize the menstruation cycle
• Summarize the production of sperm

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the importance of personal hygiene practices related to puberty.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss personal hygiene practices related to puberty and the importance of including them in daily routine

Skill Descriptor: Identify ways to manage stress and regulate emotions.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• List sources and signs of stress
• Identify ways to manage stress
• Distinguish between the way one feels and the way one acts
• Identify what different emotions look, feel, and sound like
• Discuss what ownership of emotions looks, feels, and sounds like
• Discuss ways of managing emotions

Skill Descriptor: Identify strategies for seeking support for self and others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe a strategy for seeking help for self
• Describe a strategy for seeking help for others
• List people and places to ask for help

Skill Descriptor: Describe the impact of using strategies to promote healthy decision-making.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify healthy decisions that they want to make
• Set a personal goal and describe its impact on health and well-being

Skill Descriptor: Analyze how diversity enhances a community.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM, SGC

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

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the various types of bullying and appropriate response strategies.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

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

Skill Descriptor: Describe strategies to deal with conflict across a variety of relationships.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe appropriate strategies to resolve conflict given a variety of situations involving relationships

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate an informed vision for the future linked to own interests, preferences, values, and abilities.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify personal likes and dislikes
• Explore different types of career pathways
• Explore career pathways that address problems in the world
• Continue to reflect on and build a career-life portfolio

Skill Descriptor: Critically investigate and describe the labour market and preferred career pathways.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss skills and knowledge needed to access work opportunities
• Engage in conversations with family, friends, and school staff about career pathways
• Participate in activities to prepare for the transition to middle school
• Explore different activities people do in a variety of workplaces

Skill Descriptor: Engage in frequent and ongoing career-connected experiential learning to learn about preferred career pathways and develop personal competencies.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore cross-curricular, career-connected experiential learning opportunities.
• Discuss ways to contribute to family, community, hobbies, and extra-curricular activities
• Discuss the benefits of volunteering