Alberta Health Services offers lesson plans and classroom activities to support teaching and learning in Grades 7 – 9. Our materials are organized by health topic. We welcome you to adapt them to cultivate rich and meaningful learning experiences for your students.
Food safety and handwashing
- Alberta food safety facts teacher resource kit (grades 7-12)
For supportive resources, go to ahs.ca/ephbusiness (schools tab).
Mental health
For supportive resources, go to mentalhealthliteracy.org/toolbox.
Nutrition
For supportive resources, go to ahs.ca/schoolnutrition.
Sexual health
Grade 7:
- Reproductive systems diagram
- Puberty and reproduction: Myth or fact?
- Abstinence adverstisement
- Family values
- Am I ready?
- Sticky situation: Personal decision making
- Sex in advertising
- Peer pressure
- Exploring gender stereotypes
- Me vs movie: Media messages
- Grade 7 PowerPoint slides
- Understanding consent (video)
Grade 8:
- Okay, not okay and confusing touch
- Abuse scenarios
- Birth control methods
- Birth control kit
- Finding STI health services
- Responsibilities and consequences of sexual relationships
- Outcomes of abuse
- Healthy, unhealthy, abusive
- Coping with puberty changes
- Using a condom (video)
- Using an internal (vaginal) condom (video)
- Using a dental dam (video)
Grade 9:
- Responsibilities and resources for parenting
- Making healthy choices: Sexual decision making
- My daily life: Parenting responsibilities
- Condom scavenger hunt
- Community resources
- Communication about STBBI protection
- Condoms and dental dams
- Safer sex reflection
- Consent comics
- Consent and sexual assault
- Developing coping strategies
For students with mild to moderate learning needs, go to differing abilities.
For supportive resources, go to the TeachingSexualHealth.ca resource finder.
Tobacco and vaping prevention
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Note: This is a hub for lesson plans and activities offered by Alberta Health Services. For materials developed by other Alberta and national organizations, go to more classroom activities.