Wellness and Healthy Choices Unit | Nutrition Stress Sleep Hygiene Addictions

Teach everything about nutrition, sleep, exercise, managing stress, positive self-image, hygiene, and maturing with only minutes of prep. The risks of peer pressure drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and vaping are included in this low-prep unit that you can use as soon as you print it or link the digital version to your Google Classroom.

This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.

This engaging unit includes:

• complete lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.
• a Google Slides version for the reading and writing activities. To access the digital version, download the PDF and click the link in the file.
• lessons about the immune system (optional lesson and does not name any specific diseases), making food choices (including food labels, cost of food, food accessibility), exercise and sleep, hygiene, stress and stress reduction, addictions and risk (alcohol, drugs, vaping, tobacco), peer pressure, self-esteem and self-image, maturing (physical, cognitive and social changes, but not reproductive maturity).
• student pages and templates.
• answer keys and student examples.
• student-appropriate scenarios for role-playing and discussions.
• a variety of activities including group work, writing, colouring, and collaborating.
• background information for teachers.
• quizzes and assessment instructions.
• opportunities to extend lessons.
• games and fun balanced with serious topics and conversations.
• guides to having sensitive conversations.
• healthy eating guides for Canada, Australia and the United States.
• Canadian/British and American spellings.
• a lesson guide for Alberta teachers.

Want to try a free lesson from this unit? Try the Self-Esteem lesson.

These lessons align with:

• Alberta Physical Education and Wellness Curriculum Grades 4-6 ©2022.
• Saskatchewan Health Education Curriculum for Grades 4-6.

These lessons support:

• British Columbia Physical and Health Curricular Competencies for Grades 4-6.
• most of the requirements for the Ontario Health Curriculum
• any general health unit.

This unit is part of our health and wellness series. The other units are:

• Expected and Unexpected (setting classroom norms)
• Group Roles and Processes (working in a group, group norms)
• Classroom Community (teamwork, communication and collaboration)
• Building Positive Relationships (friendship, anti-bullying)
• Safety and Responsibility (first aid, injury prevention, recreational safety, transportation safety, emergency preparedness, consent)
• Digital Citizenship and Online Safety (safety and responsibility for online interactions)
• Managing Feelings and Word Wall (social emotional learning)
• Life-Long Learning (listening, time management, goals, jobs, volunteers, decision making, perseverance, perspectives)
• Emotional Regulation Bingo (a social emotional learning game)
• Financial Literacy (currency, credits cards, banking practices, needs/wants, budgeting, consumer choices, savings, loans, and investments)
• Year Long Bundle (all of the units at a discount)

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