Find information about childhood obesity. Also learn how to encourage children to have healthy eating habits and an active lifestyle.
Nature has the power to make children healthier, happier and smarter. But over the last few generations, childhood has moved indoors, leaving kids disconnected from the natural world. This worldwide trend has profound implications for children’s healthy development—and the future of our planet.
"Four units of lesson plans created for you with fact sheets that can be printed in PDF format, activities to engage in with your students, original videos of people sharing their stories for your classrooms, grading rubrics, critical learning strategies, and even a book club created through Indigo.
Help your students:
• Examine the concept of stereotype.
• Understand how assumptions can lead to stereotypes and unfair judgments about individuals and groups.
• Recognize the ways that stereotypes and biases affect everyone.
• Teach your students to stand up to name-calling and bigotry.
• Learn how to stop the cycle of hatred and bullying
• Learn to be real-world heroes."
Brochure describing the program: https://www.chooseyourvoice.ca/wp-cyv/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Choose-Your-Voice-Brochure2022.pdf
Curriculum links for Grades 6-9: https://www.chooseyourvoice.ca/wp-cyv/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/SK-Curriculum-Links-Gr.6-9.pdf
There are two lessons in this group. The first lesson is a lab activity that illustrates the importance of hand washing as a way to prevent the spread disease. The second lesson includes discussion of various careers in the health field and allows students to explore careers utilizing various resources.
Concentus provides a full downloadable unit with a teacher and student resource booklet. This unit focuses on citizenship and aims to meet the following goals:Foster Engaged citizens who question, critically examine, advocate, and defend rights and responsibilities embedded in democracy at the local, regional, provincial, national, and global levels.Foster Lifelong learning citizens who continuously strive to understand the dynamics of change in society, and they critically seek new information to make reasoned and unbiased decisions.Foster Citizens with a strong sense of self, community, and place who value and demonstrate a positive commitment to understanding these concepts as citizens, and to the exploration of citizenship responsibilities inherent in these relationships at local, regional, national, and global levels.
The Clearer Thinking website helps people and organizations make better decisions and think more clearly, just like its name says. It uses fun, interactive games and quizzes based on evidence to help us think more logically.
*Comprehensive personality test for learner profiles
*Tools
*Courses
Understand yourself, improve your mood, accomplish your goals, make better decisions, recognize faulty logic, understand the world!
Connected to Health USC4.5- Students learn to collaborate with others by role playing and practicing.
Powerpoint to go through together as a class. Word handout for the students. Target upper elementary students.
This resource contains an abundance of ELA infused, cross-curricular lessons organized by themes for Grades 4, 5 and 6. Non-fiction, poetry and fiction reading lessons are all included.
Toolkits are available for:
*Lifelong Learning: A Social & Emotional Learning Toolkit for Educators
*Beyond Fake News: A News & Media Literacy Toolkit for Educators
*Teachers' Essential Guide to Cyberbullying Prevention
*Common Sense on E-rate and CIPA: A Toolkit for Schools and Districts
*Girls, Boys, and Media: A Gender and Digital Life Toolkit
By the end of this course the students should be able to: Identify the root of Community Health Nursing; identify supportive organizations; differentiate between Public Health Nurse and Community Health Nurse; explain Community Health Nursing; describe the qualities of the Community Health Nurse; describe the different types of community; differentiate between urban and rural communities and outline community profile; explain community entry; describe the preparations made before a community is entered; identify critical actions in community entry; list the advantages of community entry; explain community study; list at least four reasons for community study; explain the various types community study; give two explanation to each data collected; define a community need; identify types of needs; identify the process community needs assessment and list the uses of needs assessment.
Introduce core SEL competencies to teach students how to practice compassion and empathy, identify emotions, and exercise growth mindset.
Compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases a student's sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. By developing empathy in children, educators lay the groundwork for long-term understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom(opens in new tab) and in life. Compassion education is important(opens in new tab) because it helps to build key social-emotional learning competencies, such as:
- development of the understanding of self
- social awareness, and
- relationship skills
With interactive online activities and robust offline lesson plans, The Compassion Project provides invaluable resources for teaching empathy in the classroom. The Lower Elementary Compassion Course has three online lessons; Compassion Playground, EmpathEyes, and Mindful Maze.
Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Lower Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.
"The Compassion Project is a web-based learning platform focusing on social and emotional learning (SEL) strengths like compassion and empathy. It begins with a tutorial, which students can always access by clicking the help button in the upper left corner. Each lesson starts with a pre-quiz to assess what students already know. After that, a bright and colorful two-minute video with cartoon characters describes the topic for the lesson. Four characters (Tye, Brandon, Alex, and David) narrate the videos in story format. After the video plays, there are reflection questions in the format of a text messenger app that students can click to answer. Characters introduce the SEL skills by describing what the skill (e.g., compassion) looks, sounds, and feels like.
Each skill has three activity lessons. For compassion, students identify when someone needs help and learn how to act with kindness. For empathy, students "see" life through the perspective of different characters. For mindfulness, students practice a breathing technique. Teachers can then provide debriefing and offline extension activities.
The teacher dashboard allows instructors to manage students, add classes, and re-teach when needed. Quiz grades are automatically uploaded and students can access their score by hovering over each lesson." (Common Sense Media)
Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Upper Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.
The Compassion Project for Character Development PeBL from Everfi
With so much emphasis placed on improvements in math and science, skills like compassion often receive less classroom time. This unintended trade-off may be short-sighted, as compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases students’ own sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. EVERFI’s new SEL program, The Compassion Project, is the first comprehensive, no-cost program designed to help educators facilitate lessons around fundamental SEL skills for students in grades 2-4, focusing on the complex but critical skill of compassion.
Grades 2-4 and about 45 minutes.
This Course Covers
Understanding Compassion
Self Compassion
Practicing Compassion
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What Is It?
This guide connects research and actionable strategies to create a 360-degree view of adult social-emotional learning in K-12 education today. Learn what it means to address the social-emotional needs of teachers and staff, learn about different approaches to adult SEL, and explore best practices for measuring and implementing adult SEL across your school or district.
In the guide read about:
1. What Is Adult SEL?
2. How to Strengthen Adult SEL
3. Effective Adult SEL Strategies
4. How to Measure Adult SEL
5. Adult SEL Resources
"More and more, district leaders are focusing on promoting and assessing students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies.
Rigorous research shows that SEL leads to greater academic achievement, better mental health, and career success. Your district community -- from administrators, to parents, to teachers -- is likely bought into the idea that SEL can help children deal with the stressors and challenges in school and life.
But in order to cultivate students’ social-emotional skills, the adults in your building also need to feel supported and valued. Promoting student SEL starts with adults. In other words -- is your district attending to the social-emotional development and self-care of educators and staff?
This guide will equip you with the strategies and tools you need to strengthen adult SEL. By the end, you’ll understand different approaches to adult SEL as well as how to measure and implement it in your district.
Download Now: Adult SEL Toolkit [Free Worksheets & Resources]"
The Comprehensive School Health (CSH) Hub is a community for individuals involved in teaching, learning, and researching CSH at the post-secondary level.
There are a wealth of K-12 resources available on this site for health. Select the Resources tab, and then select K-12 or copy and pasted this web address into your browser https://cshhub.com/resource_type/csh-resources/
Topics include:
*Healthy Eating
*Physical Activity
*Mental Health for students
*Mental Health for teachers
Ideas for integrating food into the classroom from guest blogger Sarah Anderson.
*Making personal placemats
*Narrative Writing
*Research Paper
*Mapping Foods
*Podcasts
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- Student Presentations
- Conversation Practice
- Professional Development
- Rich Assessment
- Safe and Accountable