Ontario Grade 4 Health - Full Year Bundle
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2019 Ontario Health Curriculum – Grade 4 Bundle – This resource covers all expectations and learning goals in the Grade 4, 2019 Ontario Health Curriculum.
This comprehensive bundle contains readings, research assignments, true/false, diagrams, reflections, drawings, word searches, word scrambles and more. There is also a unit test and answer pages for all units!
Healthy Eating
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Canada’s New Food Guide
- Making a plate – Canada’s Food Guide
- STEM Connection – Math: Serving Sizes
- Identifying foods in the Canada Food Guide – food categories (fruit/vegetables, protein, grains)
- Meals – identifying food categories in meals
- Micronutrients – foods with different micronutrients
- What micronutrients do for our body
- Micronutrient infographic
- Creating a micronutrient infographic
- Macronutrients – proteins, carbohydrates, fats
- Foods high in each macronutrient
- Fats – unsaturated and saturated fats
- Carbohydrates – simple carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates and fibre
- Proteins – how they help us
- Minerals – foods high in minerals
- Calcium and osteoporosis
- Experiment – egg with osteoporosis
- Fibre – how it helps our body
- Water – healthy drink of choice
- Activity – drinking more water poster
- Healthy eating habits and how to make a habit stick
- Tracking our healthy habits
- Sometimes and anytime foods
- Mindful eating tips and strategies
- Activity – Mindful eating scavenger hunt
- Mindful eating story
- Writing your own mindful eating story
- Preparing healthy snacks
- Planning to eat healthy
- Making healthy food choices
- Healthy snacks on the go
- Choosing healthy snacks – reading nutritional labels
- Activities – word search and word scramble
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
Mental Health
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Expressing your feelings
- Activity – writing a story with different feelings
- Identifying the feelings of a character in a story
- Understanding your feelings
- Feelings Check-In
- Activity – Journaling
- Are you getting enough sleep?
- Activity – Sleep for Success
- Being active – good for mental health
- Volunteering – impact on mental health
- Mindfulness – impact on mental health
- Mindfulness – colouring pages
- Activity – Mindfulness Body Scan
- Connections to caring adults – impact on mental health
- Face-to-face social interactions – impact on mental health
- Activity – Deep Breathing Exercises
- Stress
- Activity – Am I Stressed? Checklist: Stress Test
- Stress management strategies
- Maintaining life balance
- Priorities in life
- Activity - creating a planner to organize your life
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Risks of using communication technologies
- Activity – communication technology role play
- Relationships – healthy relationships and unhealthy relationships
- Screen time and your sleep quality
- Social isolation – risks associated with extra screen time
- Internet addiction
- Activity – is it an addiction?
- Internet safety – online predators
- Internet safety rules
- Activity – making an internet safety poster
- Internet safety tips – handout
- Activity - internet safety role play
- Internet – self esteem
- Healthy ways to use communication technology
- Story – Emma learns about internet activity
- Activity – writing a story about internet safety
- Bullying – verbal, physical, social, and cyber bullying
- Bystanders in bullying
- Activity – dealing with a bully
- Identity-based bullying
- Activity – creating an identity puzzle
- Decision making model – gather information, list options, pros/cons, etc.
- Applying the decision-making process with different scenarios
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
Substance Use, Addictions and Related Behaviours
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Risks of smoking
- All about tobacco
- Tar – how it harms the body
- Carbon monoxide in cigarettes – effects on the body
- Nicotine – effects on the body
- Nicotine addiction
- Problems caused by smoking – environmental and social
- Why do people smoke?
- Influences affecting tobacco use – media and peer pressure
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act – government reaction
- Peer pressure – positive and negative peer pressure
- Activity - peer pressure scenarios
- Refusal skills – different ways to say no
- Assertiveness
- Making decisions for your future self
- Practicing refusal skills
- Activity – Role playing refusal skills
- Assignment – Saying No Comic Strip
- Tobacco use in First Nations and Metis culture
- Effects of smoking: Long-term effects and short-term effects
- Long-term and short-term effects of tobacco and vaping
- What is vaping?
- Assignment – smoking infographic
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
Human Development and Sexual Health
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Tips for teaching sexual health
- Title page
- Changes to our body during puberty
- Weight gain during puberty
- Maintaining a positive body image
- Growth spurts during puberty
- We are all unique
- Activity – making an art piece that represents us
- Acne during puberty
- Hygiene during puberty
- Experiment – Testing the effects of hand washing
- Personal care – deodorant, antiperspirant, showering, hand-washing, etc.
- Activity – hygiene role play scenarios
- Changes to our emotions during puberty – having stronger emotions
- Activity – identifying our emotions during different events
- Activity – stronger emotions role play
- Relationship changes during puberty – strategies to deal with changes
- Activity – relationship changes role play
- Crushes
- Coming of age rituals – Inuit rituals and Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- Quinceañera celebration
- Word search and word scramble
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals in the health curriculum.