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Vegetables and Fruits
Safe Behaviours and Allergies
We are learning about common food allergies and use healthy coping, relationship, and critical thinking skills to stay safe and help others stay safe.
Facilitating Learning to Reflect
To support student learning to Reflect, a variety of skills are needed. These skills include: Self-assessing strengths and areas of need Self-assessing their progress in developing new skills Writing/talking about successes and challenges during the inquiry process Developing strategies to deal with...
Origins of Food
We are learning where food comes from and how it can affect its nutritional value and the environment.
What’s in the Food We Choose?
Figure 4: Inquiry Components in Healthy Living Long Description
Nutrition Labels and Ingredient Lists
We are learning to use the information on nutrition facts tables and ingredient lists on food labels to make informed food choices.
Vaccinations, Media and Personal Health
Class Fruit and Veggie Challenge
Truth or Lie
Oral Health Supporting My Overall Health
We are learning to apply practices that help us maintain good oral health as part of taking care of our body.
Viewing with a Critical Eye
Connected to School Activities
What Is Your Goal? Students reflect on the food choices they make and why they make them, and based on their observations create a goal for improvement. With this goal in mind, they create a poster that encourages others to eat healthier or keep eating healthy. Healthy Eating around School Healthy...
Health and Physical Education
Food literacy and media literacy are concepts that can be taught leveraging The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Health and Physical Education (2019) . A key element of the Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum for Grades 1–8 is for students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...