D2. Making Healthy Choices
Specific Expectations
Healthy Eating
D2.1
describe how Canada’s Food Guide can help them develop healthy eating habits [A1.6 Thinking]
- Teacher prompt: “Canada’s Food Guide makes recommendations that can help you develop healthy eating habits. What are some of the healthy habits recommended in the Food Guide?”
- Student: “The guide suggests that you eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods, and protein foods, and choose protein foods that come from plants more often. It also says that healthy eating is about more than just the foods you eat; it’s also about being mindful of your eating habits, enjoying your food, and eating meals with others.”
D2.2
know and recognize cues to hunger, thirst, and the feeling of fullness, and explain how they can use these cues to develop healthy eating habits [A1.5 Self]
- Teacher prompt: “What does your body do to let you know you are hungry or thirsty?”
- Student: “My stomach grumbles when I’m hungry and my mouth is dry when I’m thirsty and sometimes I feel tired or grumpy.”
- Teacher: “What should you do when this happens?”
- Student: “I should try to have a snack when I feel hungry or a drink when I feel thirsty. I give my body time to digest and feel full before I decide to have more.”
Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
D2.3
demonstrate the ability to recognize caring behaviours (e.g., listening with respect, being helpful, respecting boundaries) and behaviours that can be harmful to physical and mental health (e.g., ignoring or excluding others; bullying; manipulative behaviours; sexually exploitative or abusive behaviours, including inappropriate touching; verbal, emotional, or physical abuse), and describe the feelings associated with each, as well as appropriate ways of responding, demonstrating an understanding of the importance of consent [A1.1 Emotions, 1.2 Coping, 1.4 Relationships]
- Teacher prompt: “Caring behaviours are found in healthy relationships. How might you feel in a healthy relationship?”
- Student: “I might feel happy, safe, secure, cared for, and listened to. In a healthy relationship, I would know that if I said I was uncomfortable or wanted someone to stop doing or saying something, they would stop.”
- Teacher: “How might you feel in a relationship that is not healthy?”
- Student: “I might feel sad, scared, angry, confused, hurt.”
- Teacher: “What are some situations in which you might feel that way, and how might you respond to your feelings in these situations?”
- Student: “I might feel that way if someone was being mean or leaving me out, if someone was touching me when I didn’t want to be touched, or if I was left at home alone. If I did not feel safe or secure, I could tell a trusted adult about how I felt, and keep telling them until I got help.”
D2.4
apply their knowledge of essential safety practices to take an active role in their own safety at school (e.g., inform teacher of allergies, be aware of food safety issues, play in supervised areas, follow safe routines for travelling to and from school) [A1.3 Motivation, 1.5 Self, 1.6 Thinking]
- Teacher prompt: “What are some things that students may be allergic to?”
- Student: “They may be allergic to nuts and other foods, bee stings, or medicine.”
- Teacher: “What can we do to make the classroom as safe as possible?”
- Student: “We should not bring anything that might have nuts in it to school. People with allergies who need to use medicine if they have a reaction should carry their medicine [epinephrine autoinjector] with them. We should know who has an allergy and what the signs of an allergic reaction are, and we should get an adult to help if someone is having a reaction.”
Human Development and Sexual Health
D2.5
demonstrate an understanding of and apply proper hygienic procedures for protecting their own health and preventing the transmission of disease to others (e.g., washing hands with soap, using a tissue, sleeve sneezing, brushing and flossing teeth, not sharing hats or hairbrushes)
- Teacher prompt: “Why is it important to wash your hands before you eat and after you use the washroom?”
- Student: “Washing your hands helps to stop germs from spreading. We should wash with warm water and soap for as long as it takes to say the alphabet.”