Ophea’s Food for Through – Improving Food Literacy Resource
Food for Thought – Improving Food Literacy is a free online resource by Ophea that integrates food literacy and media literacy into discussions about healthy eating. This activity provides students with the skills they need to make healthier food choices in a variety of settings, taking into account the factors within their control.
Teaching Canada’s Food Guide Toolkit for Educators
This toolkit for educators was developed to support educators, health promoters and community leaders explore the new Food Guide. There is lots of information and activities for you to share with your students.
PHE Canada’s Food Guide Toolkit for Educators
PHE Canada has excellent resources for Healthy Eating. The activities have been divided into two categories: at home for activities that require food preparation or various materials, and those that can be used or modified for in-class experiences.
Ophea’s Ask A Dietician Webinars
This is a free webinar put on by Ophea explores the Healthy Eating curriculum, and explores topics such as:
• Examining how, why, where and what we eat, grounded in Canada’s Food Guide,
• Exposing nutrition myths and facts, from carbs to fad diets to superfoods
• Exploring how personal food biases may influence your nutrition lessons
• Building healthy dietary patterns, healthy body image and good self-esteem
Injury Protection
Ontario Road Safety Resource
This website has resources and lesson plans designed by CAA to help support road safety as pedestrians, passengers, riders, and drivers.
Ophea’s Rowan’s Law Day Toolkit for Schools
This resource by Ophea has been developed to help schools and classrooms recognize Rowan’s Law Day and encourage students to speak up about concussions.
Personal Safety Resources
Zoe and Molly Online
Zoe and Molly Online is a collection of activities such as comics, an interactive game, and online safety quiz, that provide an engaging learning experience for students in grades 4-6 to explore what it means to be safe while playing games online.
Kindness in the Classroom Lesson Plans
Kindness in the Classroom is a free social emotional learning curriculum that focuses on equity, teacher self-care, digital citizenship and kindness. Many of the lesson plans could be connected to the Ontario curriculum.
Media Smarts: Classroom Resources to Counter Cyberbullying
This website is a Canadian resource that has lesson plans in English and in French, that focus on giving students a better understanding of the ethical and legal implications of cyberbullying and to promote positive Internet use.
Substance Use, Addictions and Related Behaviors
Ophea’s Cannabis Education Resources
Ophea’s Cannabis Education Resources contains evidence-informed information on substance use (specifically cannabis) to help students develop the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions to support their health and well-being. There’s a host of resources and activities available to browse through.
Ophea’s Vaping Education Resources
Ophea’s Vaping Education Resource Vaping Education Resources help support educators with capacity building tools and conversation starter prompts to support students in developing the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions to support their health and well-being.
Health Canada Experiences Website
This website contains a variety of in-class resources, activities, free online games and learning modules aimed at increasing youth engagement and awareness on current health topics impacting children in grades 1-6, teens (grades 7-12) and young adults.
Mental Health Literacy
SMHO’s Wayfinder Resource
Wayfinder is a sequenced guide for mental health education, available for grades K-12. The resource contains:
• a digital guide of lessons and activities with easy to follow instructions
• grade-specific resources with versions from K-12
• core mental health literacy lessons linked to HPE curriculum
• complementary learning activities
• tools to support and consolidate learning
• regular email messages to offer you tips, support and new classroom resources
SMHO’s Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource
This resource by SMHO is focused on the Social Emotional Learning Skills found in Strand A of the curriculum. It provides practices and activities that align with Ontario’s curriculum and are designed to help educators model and teach social-emotional skills and create and sustain mentally healthy classrooms.
PHE Canada’s Teach Resiliency
Teach Resiliency is a website created by PHE Canada in collaboration with CAMH and Western University. It is an online library that has practical and evidence-informed resources and tools to support mental health in our classrooms and schools, for both students and educators.
Human Development and Sexual Education
Always Changing and Growing Up
Always Changing & Growing Up resources are free, downloadable and support teaching adolescent growth and development, personal hygiene, and healthy, active living. There is a resource for Grades 5 & 6 and Grades 7 & 8.
AMAZE
AMAZE is an American based website that produces free, animated videos geared for students on topics such as puberty, sex, their bodies, and healthy relationships. Lots of content that could be used to help support topics discussed in class. As with any online content, always preview the video(s) first to ensure it aligns with the specific grade curriculum expectations.
WR Draw the Line Elementary Guide
White Ribbon has put together a guide for elementary schools called Draw the Line on Sexual Violence, which has lesson plans to help your students develop their ability to spot the signs of sexual violence and to step up and help. There is also a secondary guide available on their website.
KFL&A’s Human Development and Sexual Educator Resource
KFL&A has two kits available to borrow to support in-class teaching. These kits come with manuals, as well as a contraceptive and STBBI teaching kit that includes demonstration samples and other manipulatives. You can find them listed on the online catalog.
