Please note: Changes to this plan may occur without notice.

Health: Grade 5

1.
2.
5.
6.

September
Healthy Eating
Healthy Diet
Nutrients
November
Making Choices
Packing a lunch- menu or meal plan

3.

January
Influences (social-ethnic, religious,
legal, media, friends, activities
personal-goals, personality, health,
stress, parents, insecurities, curiosity)

4. Effects of media
March
Safety
1. Community bulls eye,
Threatening situations
2. Effects of social media,
cyber bullying
May
Growth and Development
1. Factors of healthy
relationships/Pressures
2. Puberty- physical changes, hygiene

Health Concepts
Healthy Eating
Safety

Supportsemergency, bullying

Substance Use

Short and Longterm effects of

alcohol
Changes at puberty
Healthy relationship
characteristics

Growth

Nutrients and their

importance

October
3. Reading labels
4. Advertising techniques

1.
2.
5.
6.

December
Substance Use
Alcohol
Effects
February
Decision-making
Aspirations/Dreams- essay or
comic
April
3. Privacy, Safe use of
internet, Support services
and decision-making
4. Brochure or commercial
June

3. Menstruation and
spermatogenesis
4. Questions

Making Healthy
Choices
Reading labels

Making
Connections
Media Influences

Threats to personal
safety
Applying
appropriate skills
and strategies
Refusal skills

Actions
Self-concept
Effect on others and
self

Dealing with
changes
Maintaining healthy
relationships

Personal Changes
Responsibilities in
their relationships

Influences on
decision to drink