Healthy, Safe & Strong: Puberty & Self-Care
Objectives
- D03.S1.07.02 Analyze how media images can shape how a person feels about their body and describe a healthy response.
- D03.S3.07.02 Critically evaluate food marketing and advertising, telling claims apart from evidence.
- D03.S4.07.01 Explain basic first aid for common emergencies, such as bleeding, burns, and choking, and when to seek adult or medical help.
- D03.S4.07.02 Analyze how social media can affect mental health and set personal boundaries for healthy use.
Essential questions
- How do media images shape how I feel about my body, and what is a healthy response?
- How do I tell food-marketing claims apart from evidence, and when do I seek help in an emergency?
- How does social media affect mental health, and what boundaries keep me well?
Big ideas
- Media images can shape body image, and a healthy response protects my sense of self.
- Food marketing makes claims I can test against evidence, and first aid is knowing what to do and when to get help.
- Social media affects mental health, and personal boundaries for healthy use are a form of self-care.
Lessons
- 1 Media Images & Body Image: What Are We Really Seeing? 50 minutes
- 2 A Healthy Response: Reading Media Without Losing Myself 50 minutes
- 3 Food Marketing: Claims vs. Evidence 50 minutes
- 4 Evaluating Food Ads: Spotting the Claim, Asking for Evidence 50 minutes
- 5 First Aid Basics: Bleeding & Burns 50 minutes
- 6 First Aid: Choking & Getting Adult Help 50 minutes
- 7 Social Media & Mental Health: What It Does to How We Feel 50 minutes
- 8 My Social Media Boundaries: A Plan for Healthy Use 50 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of media-and-body-image analysis, food-marketing evaluation, first-aid reasoning, and boundary-setting; a body-image response note, a claim-versus-evidence food-ad analysis, a first-aid scenario, and a social-media boundary plan as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 8 — Healthy, Safe & Strong: Puberty & Self-Care
Overview
This unit returns to the body at a turning point, building on Grade 6’s puberty, nutrition, risk, and self-care work. Learners analyze how media images can shape how a person feels about their body and describe a healthy response, and critically evaluate food marketing and advertising by telling claims apart from evidence. They explain basic first aid for common emergencies — bleeding, burns, choking — and when to seek adult or medical help, and analyze how social media can affect mental health and set personal boundaries for healthy use. Every body, every pace, and every family’s way of eating is honored; the body is taught with dignity, never shame.
Essential questions
- How do media images shape how I feel about my body, and what is a healthy response?
- How do I tell food-marketing claims apart from evidence, and when do I seek help in an emergency?
- How does social media affect mental health, and what boundaries keep me well?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| L.07.008.01 | Media Images & Body Image: What Are We Really Seeing? | D03.S1.07.02 |
| L.07.008.02 | A Healthy Response: Reading Media Without Losing Myself | D03.S1.07.02 |
| L.07.008.03 | Food Marketing: Claims vs. Evidence | D03.S3.07.02 |
| L.07.008.04 | Evaluating Food Ads: Spotting the Claim, Asking for Evidence | D03.S3.07.02 |
| L.07.008.05 | First Aid Basics: Bleeding & Burns | D03.S4.07.01 |
| L.07.008.06 | First Aid: Choking & Getting Adult Help | D03.S4.07.01 |
| L.07.008.07 | Social Media & Mental Health: What It Does to How We Feel | D03.S4.07.02 |
| L.07.008.08 | My Social Media Boundaries: A Plan for Healthy Use | D03.S4.07.02 |