First Grade Interactive Health Journal {Now Editable!}

This unit is designed with the Grade 1 Manitoba Health Education curriculum in mind, but the lessons and activities are suitable to be used with any health curriculum.

This unit contains a lesson idea and interactive journal page for most of the knowledge outcomes in the curriculum, focusing on health and safety.

These are the lessons/outcomes covered in this unit:

Journal title page

Unit title page: All About Me

1. Identify positive attributes about themselves

2. Describe what is special about their family and different ways that families can change

3. Sort behaviours that are responsible and irresponsible (or bucket filling and bucket dipping)

4. Sort tattling and reporting; Describe how to solve conflicts

5. Describe ways to get along with others

6. Describe how to express emotions appropriately

7. Name strategies to deal with anger

8. Sort types of physical and verbal violence

9. Practice decision making/problem solving using three steps

10. Practice steps in personal goal setting

Unit title page: Safety

11. Describe ways to play safely on the playground

12. Identify bus safety rules

13. Sort safe and not safe fire rules, label the firefighter and his tools, and create a fire escape plan for their home

14. Identify Halloween/trick-or-treat safety rules

15. Sort safe and unsafe ways to play

16. Describe how to stay safe in dangerous situations

17. Identify safe and unsafe substances found at home

18. Describe how to exercise safely in different weather conditions

19. Describe how to stay safe in extreme weather conditions

20. Recognize safe community helpers

21. Describe how to call 911

22. Describe ways to be safe around strangers

23. Describe how to be safe on the internet

24. Label important bike safety rules

Unit title page: Health & Nutrition

25. Identify daily habits for a healthy lifestyle and sequence proper hand washing technique

26. Describe how to prevent the spread of sickness

27. Identify Canada's food guide and sort foods into the food groups (updated with new Food Guide guidelines)

28. Create a healthy meal

29. Describe why it's important to exercise

30. Compare feelings towards sports and physical activities

31. Label the body parts affected by exercise

32. Sort active and passive lifestyle choices

33. Describe dental health tips, label dentist and tools, and sort healthy and not healthy foods

*There are two lessons (conflict resolution and decision making) in this unit that are identical to lessons in the First Grade Interactive Social Studies Journal unit. You can hit two sets of out comes with one lesson! There is also an extreme weather lesson in this unit that is similar to a lesson in the First Grade Interactive Science Journal: Weather and Seasons unit.

*Updated Nov. 1/15* This unit comes bundled with two files now--the original PDF version and an editable PowerPoint version. If you teach Health in another language (German or French perhaps?) you can edit the text boxes on the student pages to meet your needs. The teacher information pages are not editable, but all the student pages are! You do need to have PowerPoint in order to edit the file.