1. Grade 6 and 7 Health Unit 1 Making Healthy Choices
Health Disorders
Grade 6 and 7 Health Unit 1
Making Healthy Choices

2. Healthy Living In Grade 6 and 7, the units in Health are:
Making Healthy Choices
Making Connections for Healthy Living
Making Healthy Choices in Relationships

3. Unit 1 (September-December) Making Healthy Choices
Factors Influencing Healthy Eating
Health Disorders
Connections to Everyday Situations
Who’s Influencing You?
Cyberbullying and Gaming Addiction
Consequences Community Connections
Wrap-up

4. 2. Health Disorders
make conclusions about the role different foods play as contributing or preventive factors in a variety of health disorders

5. Health Disorders How can we make healthy eating choices?
Follow Canada’s Food Guide
Eat appropriate portion sizes
Satisfy your thirst with water
Limit foods and beverages high in calories, fat, sugar or salt
Drink milk each day
Select lean meat and alternatives prepared with little or no added fat or salt

6. Health Disorders
What you eat can help contribute to overall positive health, but it also can contribute to health problems.
Brainstorm a list of health problems that might be caused by an unhealthy diet.

7. Health Disorders
In groups of 3 – 5, select a disorder, read the text, and write down three questions you would like to answer
diabetes
heart disease
cancer
food allergy
osteoporosis

8. Health Disorders
With a partner, trade cards and jot down notes for answering your questions. Then discuss the reading, using the six questions to guide your discussion.
Create one new question that is still unanswered or is intriguing for a full-class discussion.

9. Health Disorders
What are some factors that influence people’s food choices?
Personal External

10. Health Disorders
How can people make healthier food choices if their choices are limited by personal or external factors?
Trying foods before rejecting them.
Exploring alternatives to accommodate ethical, religious, cultural, or allergy concerns.
Eating fresh local food instead of packaged imported food.

11. Health Disorders
Create a meal that may prevent health disorders addressed in class.

12. 3. Connections to Everyday Situations

13. 4. Who’s Influencing You?

14. 5. Cyberbullying and Gaming Addiction

15. 6. Consequences Community Connections

16. 7. Unit Wrap-up