LibGuides: WWA: Health &amp; Wellness: Home

CU1 Making healthy food choices helps people develop a healthy body and mind

Describe how a healthy plate and healthy eating habits can help to develop a healthy body and mind

What Is a Food Neutral Classroom?
Teacher resource to consider taking a food-neutral stance in the classroom
Superhero Foods HQ
Explore the super powers of every day foods with this resource from Food Bank Australia

Canada's Food Guide (Illustrated)
Look at this illustrated food guide to discuss what a healthy day of eating might look like

What Makes a Food Super?
Dig into 'super foods' with Wonderopolis.
What's In Food?
Find out more about different food groups and what nutrients they're composed of with this interactive article.
Healthy Eating: How schools in Singapore encourage and support our kids
Article explaining how schools in Singapore are working to build an understanding around healthy eating for students.
Eating Well | Sesame Street Communities
Explore a variety of videos and resources about healthy eating.
Let's Talk About Sugar
TEACHER RESOURCE which breaks down different aspects of sugar consumption to support and develop our understanding of what sugars do for our bodies (good and bad)
Food Based Dietary Guidelines by Country
Explore nutritional guidelines by country with students to introduce the concept that nutritional practices are cultural

Recognize that it is natural to be curious about physical changes that occur during human development (e.g. changes to the body during puberty)

Stages in Human Development
Look at this chart of 8 stages of human development (adapted from Erik Erikson's theory), with stages alongside important events that take place during that time in our lives.
Stages in Human Development (full text)
Physical and psychological stages of human development described side by side to examine each stage and what occurs during that time. Adapted from multiple resources.
Teaching Puberty
TEACHER RESOURCE: the first few lessons here might be useful to unpack language around puberty and body parts.
Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
TEACHER RESOURCE: Guidelines for sexuality education (including puberty). Contains age appropriate answers in stages for questions that might come up. Helpful for teachers to refer to when dealing with student questions.
Human Growth & Development Chapter
Human growth & development chapter from UNESCO guidelines on sexual education. Includes responses divided by age bands.

The importance of good hygiene habits and use the correct terminology for all parts of the body including external genitalia

Personal Hygiene for Children In Pictures
Raising Children (Australia) provides a guide for children's hygiene including illustrations. Includes washing and bathing, cleaning genitals and toileting, and tooth and nose hygiene.