Health
Specific apps and ways they assist with learning health.
Count Your Peas
- It allows you to think about what you eat throughout the day while you learn about it and make art.
Curriculum
USC2.2 Determine how healthy snacking practices influence personal health.Hygiene HD
Curriculum
USC1.1 Examine healthy behaviors and opportunities and begin to determine how these behaviors and opportunities may affect personal well-being.Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
-This app presents several scenarios in which the player must help the character make decisions to overcome everyday obstacles.
Curriculum
DM1.1- Examine initial steps (i.e., Stop, Think, Do) for making basic choices regarding healthy behaviours; healthy brain, heart, and lungs; healthy relationships; pedestrian/street safety; and a healthy sense of self.
DM2.1-Demonstrate how, why, and when to ask for help and/or advice when discovering healthy connections related to thoughts-feelings-actions, healthy snacking, affects of illness/disease, respect, safety, and diversity.
USC1.3-Analyze, with support, feelings and behaviours that are important for nurturing healthy relationships at school.Watch us use Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame :
Touch and Learn- Emotions
-This app allows students to recognize body language to identify feelings being felt by showing four pictures and having the player choose the correct emotion.
Curriculum
USC1.3-Analyze, with support, feelings and behaviours that are important for nurturing healthy relationships at school.Social Stories Creator and Library for Preschool, Autism and Special Needs
-This app has several social stories already made for use or personal social stories can be made based upon the needs of the student.
Curriculum
AP1.1- Apply the steps of Stop, Think, and Do (with guidance) to develop healthy behaviours related to a healthy brain, heart, and lungs; healthy relationships; pedestrian/ street safety; and a healthy sense of self.
AP2.1- Act upon health-related understandings, skills, and confidences to make healthy connections related to personal thoughts-feelings-actions, healthy snacking, affects of illness/disease, respect, safety, and diversity.
AP3.1-Use the understandings, skills, and confidences related to healthy foods and physical activity, one’s “inner self”, helpful and harmful substances, healthy family and home, safety at home, and impact of violence.