The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-12 - Ministère de l'éducation ...

Living Skills
– explain their reasoning for their personal choices and actions related to health and well-being
Note: Students’ reasoning may include wanting to be in an outdoor setting and this consideration
could involve thinking about protection of the environment.
Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 11, Open (PPL3O)
Active Living
– demonstrate positive, responsible personal and social behaviour in physical activity
settings (e.g., encouraging and helping others, striving for personal bests, showing respect
for others, demonstrating good sportsmanship)
Healthy Living
– describe factors (e.g., environmental, hormonal, nutritional) affecting reproductive health
in males and females
Note: Consideration of chemicals in foods (e.g., pesticides) and in the environment (e.g.,
environmental estrogens) is an important aspect of this expectation, as are factors related to the
physical environment.
Health for Life, Grade 11, Open (PPZ3O)
Determinants of Health
– analyse how various lifestyle choices (e.g., decisions pertaining to nutrition, physical
activity, and smoking) affect health
– implement a personal plan for healthy living
– analyse the social factors that influence personal health (e.g., employment, education,
socio-economic status, isolation, rural and urban settings, access to health and
recreational services)
Note: An environmental connection to the idea of healthy eating would be a consideration of
organic foods, leading to learning about where our food originates and how it is grown,
produced, or processed.
Community Health
• analyse how the environment influences the health of the community
– analyse the environmental factors (e.g., air and water quality, living conditions) that
affect personal health (e.g., increase in respiratory and communicable diseases)
– describe environmental influences on health on the local, national, and global levels (e.g.,
pollution, industrial activity, weather)
80 Environmental Education, Grades 9−12: Scope and Sequence of Expectations, 2011