Archives: Resources
Intergenerational Bingo
In this activity your students will have an opportunity to generate intergenerational dialogue within your communities with a fun Easter activity (can be used for any occasion). Students will be encouraged to spend time with seniors and familiarize themselves with the nursing home facilities in the community. The activity will help expose students to the career opportunities and possibilities offered in the nursing home and educate students about different age populations within our society.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
Healthy Eating Balanced Plate Activity
Are you looking to teach your students the basics of healthy eating? In this activity, your students will learn and practice how to balance their plates and build healthy snacks and lunches. You and your students will also receive a healthy eating guide that can assist you when making decisions about what you should include on your balanced plate each day.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Positive 4 Corners – Social & Emotional Learning
Positive communication, through words and action, is an essential skill for daily living. With emphasis on social-emotional well-being, this 45-minute lesson will give your students the opportunity to learn, discuss, practice, and explore various methods of positive communication, rotating through 4 different stations spread around the corners in your room.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Envisioning a Future in Health with Horizon Health
Students will view a video from Horizon Health that highlights career opportunities here in New Brunswick. Using the career pathways page on the COE Health website, students will choose and explore a career of interest. With the storyboard from the Horizon video as an example, they will create a storyboard for a video that would outline the steps they might take to pursue their career of interest (high school courses, post-secondary, volunteer experience, work placements, etc…).
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Mindful Breathing with Balloons
In this lesson, students will discuss the benefits of mindful breathing. This lesson will be divided into two activities. In the first activity, students will learn about mindful breathing, with the teacher using a balloon to demonstrate the breathing process. The teacher will talk students through the breathing process and then play a video for the class to follow along with. Students will use balloons and flour to make stress balls in the second activity. Next, students will learn how to use the stress ball to assist mindful breathing.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Find the Allied Health Professional
This Allied Health activity will introduce students to other careers, besides doctors and nurses, within the Healthcare system. It will give them a solid foundation of the allied health professionals’ roles and the services they offer to patients here in New Brunswick.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
Journey Through Carington House Video Game
Journey Through Carington House is a serious game designed to familiarize the nursing home environment and combat negative stereotypes and misconceptions about nursing homes. It was developed as part of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Home’s Recruitment Strategy to engage a youth audience to consider careers in nursing homes.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Healthcare in Style
Equipping students with knowledge of health care and social care jobs can be integrated into all subject areas at school. This activity allows students to learn about working in the healthcare field through a fashion design lens while completing a project-based learning project. Students will have a chance to research a health or social care profession and apply that knowledge to creating a uniform that could increase their work performance and output.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
Tom the Tomato Plant: 3-5 Book Guide
Accompanying the heart-warming picture book, Tom the Tomato Plant, written by author Dave Carroll, this guide features cross-curricular pre-reading and after reading activities highlighting themes of self-awareness, resilience, and compassion for elementary students.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Design Your Own Long-Term Care Home
New Brunswick has the highest senior population in the country. It is important for students to be aware of the different age groups and demographics in our communities. Through this activity, students will be introduced to Long Term Care (LTC) facilities in their communities and explore career opportunities included in LTC Homes. They will also discuss how they can contribute to the positive well-being of their communities through working directly or indirectly with residents in LTC homes.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Tom the Tomato Plant: K-2 Book Guide
Accompanying the delightful children’s book, Tom the Tomato Plant, written by author Dave Carroll, this guide features cross-curricular pre-reading and after reading activities highlighting themes of self-awareness, resilience, and kindness for primary students.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
Canada’s Food Guide Toolkit
The resource is an interactive lesson that includes watching short portions of a recorded video of Chi the Chinchilla teaching students about Canada’s food guide, enhancing the lessons on the different food groups through physical activity segments, and drawing food items on appropriate sections of the Healthy Plate Activity Sheet.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5