Healthy, Safe & Strong: Substance & Self-Care
Objectives
- D03.S3.08.01 Plan and prepare a simple balanced meal using safe food-handling practices.
- D03.S3.08.02 Explain how eating patterns, not only what one eats, affect health, digestion, and wellbeing.
- D03.S4.08.01 Explain how substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs affect the body and brain and how to make safe, informed choices.
- D03.S4.08.02 Build a personal self-care routine covering sleep, hygiene, movement, and connection, and track how it affects wellbeing.
Essential questions
- How do I plan and prepare a simple balanced meal safely, and how do eating patterns — not only what I eat — shape my health and wellbeing?
- How do substances like tobacco, alcohol, and drugs affect the body and brain, and how do I build and track a self-care routine that keeps me well?
Big ideas
- Health comes from what I eat and from how I eat, and a balanced meal can be planned and prepared safely by hand.
- Substances affect the body and brain in specific ways, and informed choices plus a tracked self-care routine — sleep, hygiene, movement, connection — are how I stay strong.
Lessons
- 1 Healthy, Safe & Strong: Where We've Been, Where We're Going 50 minutes
- 2 Keeping Food Safe: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill 50 minutes
- 3 Planning a Balanced Meal 50 minutes
- 4 Preparing a Simple Meal Safely 55 minutes
- 5 Eating Patterns: How We Eat Shapes How We Feel 50 minutes
- 6 Tobacco & Nicotine: What They Do to the Body and Brain 50 minutes
- 7 Alcohol: Effects on a Growing Body and Brain 50 minutes
- 8 Medicines, Drugs, and Safe, Informed Choices 50 minutes
- 9 Building a Self-Care Routine: Sleep, Hygiene, Movement, Connection 50 minutes
- 10 Tracking My Routine + Capstone: Healthy, Safe & Strong 55 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of a learner planning and preparing a simple balanced meal with safe food-handling; an eating-patterns reflection, a substance-effects explanation, and a built-and-tracked self-care routine as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 8 — Healthy, Safe & Strong: Substance & Self-Care
Overview
This unit returns to the body at a turning point, building on Grade 7’s media and body image, food-marketing literacy, and first aid. Learners plan and prepare a simple balanced meal using safe food-handling practices, and explain how eating patterns, not only what one eats, affect health, digestion, and wellbeing. They explain how substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs affect the body and brain and how to make safe, informed choices, and build a personal self-care routine covering sleep, hygiene, movement, and connection, and track how it affects wellbeing. 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 I plan and prepare a simple balanced meal safely, and how do eating patterns — not only what I eat — shape my health and wellbeing?
- How do substances like tobacco, alcohol, and drugs affect the body and brain, and how do I build and track a self-care routine that keeps me well?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Healthy, Safe & Strong: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going | D03.S3.08.01, D03.S4.08.01 |
| 02 | Keeping Food Safe: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill | D03.S3.08.01 |
| 03 | Planning a Balanced Meal | D03.S3.08.01 |
| 04 | Preparing a Simple Meal Safely | D03.S3.08.01 |
| 05 | Eating Patterns: How We Eat Shapes How We Feel | D03.S3.08.02 |
| 06 | Tobacco & Nicotine: What They Do to the Body and Brain | D03.S4.08.01 |
| 07 | Alcohol: Effects on a Growing Body and Brain | D03.S4.08.01 |
| 08 | Medicines, Drugs, and Safe, Informed Choices | D03.S4.08.01 |
| 09 | Building a Self-Care Routine: Sleep, Hygiene, Movement, Connection | D03.S4.08.02 |
| 10 | Tracking My Routine + Capstone: Healthy, Safe & Strong | D03.S3.08.01, D03.S3.08.02, D03.S4.08.01, D03.S4.08.02 |