Curriculum+Connections

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__** General Curriculum Outcomes **__

**Knowledge:** As children develop it becomes important that they understand what changes they will experience personally and those they will see in others. An awareness of potentially harmful factors, and ways to minimize risk, is knowledge that promotes wellness.

**Skills:** Knowledge alone is insufficient to develop good health. Decision making is a skill emphasized throughout this curriculum. In order to minimize the risk (from harm) it is important that students identify information, assess that which is relevant, then act on the basis of an informed decision. Wisdom is based on experience, which suggests students need simulations through which to practise decision-making skills and the assessment and evaluation of the consequences. As Dewey stated, 'Children learn by doing'.

**Attitudes:** Each person develops attitudes and beliefs that are shaped by personal experience and family/cultural background. In a democratic society, people enjoy freedom of beliefs but share a responsibility to ensure that pursuing one's beliefs and actions does not harm other members of society. Learning outcomes in health encourage students to appreciate a range of beliefs and attitudes and the impact they may have for an individual and for society. This curriculum is designed to assist students in developing attitudes which benefit both themselves and their community.

__** NB Health Curriculum Rationale **__

As family structures continue to change, health and social delivery systems need to adopt new roles. While schools alone cannot be expected to address the health and related social problems of youth, they can provide, through their climate and curriculum, a focal point for efforts to reduce health-risk behaviours and improve the health status of youth.

and Your Community ||~ Personal Wellness ||~ Use, Misuse and Abuse of Materials (Media Literacy) ||~ Growth and Development || high risk behaviours and resulting consequences || **B1** Identify strategies for promoting their own wellness || **C1** Understand what an addiction is and how it can make a person keep doing something unhealthy or destructive || **D1** Understand the role of the media in establishing feelings and attitudes about ourselves and relationships with others, including dating and becoming sexually active || promote safety and prevent injury or illness || **B2** Identify factors that enhance health or that cause illness. || **C2** Practice positive decision making as it relates to self and others || **D2** Understand the choices and realize both the long term and short term consequences and responsibilities that exist with becoming sexually active. || lives and strategies for coping with stress. || **C3** Identify and values themselves as positive role models. || **D3** Discuss sexual orientation issues. || not engage in unhealthy behaviours or activities. ||  ||
 * ~ Caring for Yourself, Your Family
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 * || **B3** Identify stressors in student
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