Grade by Grade
Nova Scotia · Grade 4

Health Education

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

HBHealth Behaviours

How food, outdoor physical activity, technology, communicable diseases and sleep affect health

MHLMental Health Literacy

How the brain works, emotional vocabulary, coping with challenges and losses, seeking help

SRHSexual and Reproductive Health

Puberty changes and coping with them, gender expression, finding safe adults for help

RELRelationships

Friendship, personal boundaries, recognizing unsafe situations

SUBSubstances

Marketing messages, healthy and harmful uses of substances, asking for help with substance use in families