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Healthy Choices

Overview




Healthy Choices is a coordinated, integrated curriculum-based program for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12.  Healthy Choices aims to improve the health of school-aged children and youth by focusing on health issues that affect children and youth today including:

  • Healthy eating
  • Physical activity
  • Body image
  • Friendships
  • Relationships
  • Sexual development
  • Communicable diseases
  • Sexual decisions

Healthy Choices is based on the principles of Comprehensive School Health (CSH) which aims to improve students' health by providing classroom resources, promoting a healthy school environment, encouraging access to health services and promoting community action.  For an overview of the program, see the Healthy Choices Overview (PDF).

Classroom Resources

Healthy Choices includes age appropriate, field-tested lessons for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, which meet learning outcomes for health as outlined by the B.C. Ministry of Education.

The lessons focus on knowledge acquisition, attitude exploration, building skills and changing behaviours.  Additionally, health information required for teaching the lessons is included.

The interactive lessons include:

  • Games
  • Quizzes
  • Student worksheets
  • Answer keys
  • Overheads
  • Other classroom resources

School Environment

Making healthy choices the easy choice is the focus of creating a healthy school environment.  Healthy Choices includes strategies and resources for creating and implementing health policies, building positive social climates, promoting safe physical environments and encouraging meaningful student involvement.

Services

Children, youth and families sometimes need access to health services to address health issues.  Healthy Choices includes information on regional and provincial health and social services.  In addition, it includes a list of community organizations that provide health education resources and/or services to teachers.

Community Action

It takes all of us working together to improve child and youth health.  Healthy Choices includes information on regional and provincial organizations that implement community events to raise the profile of child and youth health.  It also provides suggestions for involving parents as partners in student health.

Print the Healthy Choices Program

Listed below you will find the individual Healthy Choices resources for Kindergarten through Grade 12.  Within each grade, there are additional required resources, including Blackline Masters to help re-create teaching kits, resources required to implement "Get Up and Go Games" or Nutrition/Physical Activity Guides.  Please review each grade carefully to determine the additional required resources.

Kindergarten to Grade 5 (Elementary):

Kindergarten (PDF)
Grade 1 (PDF)
Grade 2 (PDF)
Grade 3 (PDF)
Grade 4 (PDF)
Grade 5 (PDF)

Additional Required Resources:

Theres a Rainbow on Your Plate (PDF)
Grade 3 - Lesson 1
Nutrition Jeopardy (PDF)
Grade 4 - Lesson 2
Nutrition Stations (PDF)
Grade 5 - Lesson 3
Maturation Kit (PDF)
Grade 4 - Lesson 6 and Grade 5 - Lesson 7
Get Up and Go Games - Elementary (PDF)
Canada's Food Guide:
www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide
Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide A Resource for Educators and Communicators: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/educ-comm/index_e.html 
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/index.html

 Grade 6 to Grade 8 (Middle):

Grade 6 (PDF)
Grade 7 (PDF)
Grade 8 (PDF)

Additional Required Resources:

Portion Distortion (PDF)
Grade 6 - Lesson 3
Preventing Communicable Diseases Game (PDF)
Grade 6 - Lesson 8
The Caffeine Conundrum (PDF)
Grade 8 - Lesson 2
Birth Control Kit (PDF)
Grade 8 - Lesson 8; Grade 9 - Lesson 8; Grade 10 - Lesson 6
Get Up and Go Games - Middle (PDF)
Canada's Food Guide:
www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide
Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide A Resource for Educators and Communicators: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/educ-comm/index_e.html 
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/index.html

Grade 9 to Grade 12 (Secondary):

Grade 9 (PDF)
Grade 10/11/12 (PDF)

Additional Required Resources:

Birth Control Kit (PDF)
Grade 8 - Lesson 8; Grade 9 - Lesson 8; Grade 10 - Lesson 6
Re-Think Your Drink (PDF)
Grade 9 - Lesson 2
Wheels of Choice (PDF)
Grade 11/12
Get Up and Go Games - Secondary (PDF)
Canada's Food Guide:
www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide
Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide A Resource for Educators and Communicators: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/educ-comm/index_e.html 
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/index.html

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