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Grade 4 Curriculum Links
Links to Alberta Learning Health and Life Skills Curriculum
Students will:
| Specific Outcome | Description | Leaps and Bounds Lesson |
| W-4.1 | Explore the connections among physical activity, emotional wellness and social wellness | Lessons 6 and 7 |
| W-4.8 | Expand practices that provide safety for self and others; e.g., develop guidelines for safe use of technology/chat lines | Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 |
| W-4.10 | Describe and demonstrate ways to assist with the safety of others; e.g., helping younger children play safely and cross streets safely | Lessons 4 and 5 |
| R-4.1 | Recognize that individuals can have a positive and negative influence on the feelings of others | Lesson 8 |
| R-4.9 | Assess how to act as important role models for others | Lesson 8 |
| L-4.3 | Demonstrate effective decision making, focusing on careful information gathering; e.g., evaluating information, taking action and evaluating results | Lessons 4, 5, 7 and 8 |
Addiction Prevention
As well as being designed to meet the goals and outcomes of Alberta teachers, this resource has been designed to follow best practices in prevention. It meets the following requirements for an effective prevention resource.
Good prevention programs:
- are evidence based
- based on accurate information
- are strength-based, comprehensive and of sufficient duration
- are delivered at a time when it is relevant to students and addresses important life transitions
- combine knowledge and skill development
- use interactive group process
- are designed to facilitate student analysis of social influence
- provide training and support to teachers/facilitators
