How is Health Education content taught in grades 6-9?
The aim of Health Education is to increase students’ health-enhancing behaviours and to decrease their health-risking behaviours. To achieve this aim, Health Education instruction is based on a decision-making model. Students extend their knowledge base about a particular topic by gathering and evaluating multiple sources of health information. They learn how to evaluate health-related information so they can base decisions upon accurate, current information rather than upon hunches or misinformation. Health Education includes the process of considering choices or alternatives available to students. It also includes exploring the short-term and long-term consequences of each alternative. Grade six students learn to make decisions that affirm personal standards of well-being. Grade seven students practise making decisions that feature a personal commitment to health-enhancing behaviours. In grade eight, students make decisions to support a peer who is working toward health-enhancing beh
