Educators

Grade 5 

• Discovering You! Student workbook: English | French
• Discovering You! Teacher companion guide: English | French
• Interactive activity kit available from your school Public Health Nurse*

Grade 6-8

• Substance Misuse Series 2: Alcohol Level 1 (Grades 6-8) - Details - Kahoot! (Requires Kahoot account)
• Substance Misuse Series 2: Alcohol Level 2 (Grades 6-8) - Details - Kahoot! (Requires Kahoot account)
• Interactive Game Kits (Plinko, Spin Wheel)*
• CCSA Understanding Substance Use: Educator’s Guide

Grade 9-12

• Substance Misuse Series 2: Alcohol Level 3 (Grades 9-12) - Details - Kahoot! (Requires Kahoot account)
• Interactive Game Kits (Plinko, Spin Wheel)*
• Reducing Substance Use: A School Based Toolkit
• CCSA Understanding Substance Use: Educator’s Guide

*Resources available through your public health nurse.

• Canadian Centre for Addiction and Substance Use
• Carea Community Health Centre
• Connex Ontario
• My Toolkit Substance Use Education Module
• Ontario Physical & Health Education Association (OPHEA): Teaching tools - Alcohol Education Resources
• Pinewood Addiction Services
• The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: Primary Education Resources for Teachers
• Wellness Together Canada
• What is substance use? - Kids Help Phone

• Concussion protocol resources for schools
• Concussion guide for teachers
• Learning About Concussions: Teacher Guide and Lesson
• Return to school strategy
• Rowan’s Law Day toolkit for schools 

• Bringing healthy eating to the classroom
• Brightbites
• Elementary School Toolkit: Promoting Vegetables, Fruit and Water
• Ophea teaching tools
• Physical and Health Education Canada
• Sip Smart!™ Ontario - Classroom Education Program

• Dietitians of Canada
• Health Canada Food and Nutrition
• UnlockFood.ca

Healthy fundraising and special events

Healthy fundraising ideas

Healthy snack or breakfast programs

• Durham Child Nutrition Project
• Ontario Student Nutrition Program

Understanding P/PM 150:

• English
• Food and beverage policies and standards at Ontario schools

Trans Fat Standards Regulation

Trans Fat Standards Regulation

• Coughing and sneezing hygiene for kids video – Government of Canada
• Be a handwashing hero video – Government of Canada
• Prevent the spread of germs word scramble
• Prevent the spread of germs word search
• School announcements: Handwashing
• Wash away germs colouring sheet

• Chickenpox reporting form
• Cover your cough poster (English | French)
• Durham Healthy Families handwashing video
• Facts about... Handwashing
• Guidelines for infectious diseases reporting and exclusion (Does not apply to COVID-19 management in schools.)

  As per Ministry guidance, no respiratory outbreaks will be declared at this time. You are not required to report increases in absenteeism due to respiratory symptoms in your classes and schools. Please continue to report potential enteric outbreaks in your classes and schools as necessary.

• Handwashing steps poster (English | French)
• Proper handwashing video
• Stop the spread poster
• Wash your hands poster

• Class conversation starters (School Mental Health Ontario)
• Free stress strategies for educators and parents
• Mental health activities (Elementary)(School Mental Health Ontario)
  
• Mental health messages that can be used in elementary school
• Mental health messages that can be used in secondary school
• Social media and school announcements
• Student mental health action kit (School Mental Health Ontario)

Helpful links

• Positive mental health toolkit
• Schools Reopening Toolkit - Mental health and COVID-19
• Supporting student mental health during a pandemic (COVID-19)

School Mental Health Ontario learning modules

• Common student mental health concerns
• Mentally healthy schools and learning environments

The Psychology Foundation of Canada stress resources

• American Dental Association activities and lesson plans
• Oral health education resources for teachers and educators

• Canada's Food Guide
• Dental Hygiene Canada - fun stuff
• Healthy lunches and snacks for school
• Oral health
• Oral health activities and resources
• Sugary drinks
• Teaching resources
• The Ontario Curriculum: Elementary (Health and Physical Education)

Curriculum support

• Elementary School Toolkit: Reducing Sedentary Behaviour
• How can my school promote active school travel?
• Ontario Active School Travel website
• Ophea teaching tools

Helpful links

• Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Children and Youth (5-17 years): An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep
• Daily Physical Activity
• Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines
• OPHEA Daily Physical Activity resources
• Physical and Health Education Canada website
• Play sport, a website to help teach kids games and sports through play
• The Brain + Body Equation, The 2018 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

• Durham.ca/visionzero
• Durham.ca/thinkanddrive
• National Teen Driver Safety Week
• Ontario.ca/cannabis
• Ontario.ca/distracteddriving
• Ontario.ca/toohightodrive
• Ontario Road Safety website

• Cannabis Plinko, Spin Wheel and Drop Zone: Q&A activities for students in Grade 6-12*
• Cannabis Kahoot! Grades 6-8: Online interactive activity using the Kahoot! platform*
• Cannabis Kahoot! Grades 9-12: Online interactive activity using the Kahoot! platform*
• Reducing Substance Use: A School-Based Toolkit (Grades 9 to 12)
• Understanding Substance Use: Educator's guide (Grades 6 to 12)
• Weed out the Myths: Resource for students in grades 6-12

*Resources available through your public health nurse.

• Canada’s Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG)
• Canadian Centre for Addiction and Substance Use
• Canadian Centre on Substance Use & Addiction (CCSA): Talking pot with youth: A cannabis communication guide for youth allies
• Canadian students for sensible drug policy: Sensible cannabis education: A toolkit for educating youth
• Cannabis use among Durham Region students, grades 9-12
• Cannabis: What parents/guardians and caregivers need to know
• Drug Free Kids Canada: The cannabis talk kit: Know how to talk to your teen
• Government of Ontario: Cannabis
• Health Canada: Cannabis in Canada: Get the facts
• Kids Help Phone: Cannabis: Important things to know
• Ministry of Education: Cannabis information & resources for educators
• My Toolkit Substance Use Education Module
• Ontario Physical & Health Education Association (OPHEA): Teaching tools - Cannabis education resources
• Prescription opioids information sheets for educators, parents and youth: English | French
• Standards for School-Based Youth Substance Use Prevention
• The Blunt Truth: Useful tips about safer ways to use cannabis (Youth LRCUG)
• The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Sunsense Program

Register your school for SunSense to gain access to a variety of free downloadable resources related to sun safety education, policy development and shade.

Other

• Be Sun Safe (Canadian Cancer Society)
• SunSmart

• Be in the know... pamphlet
• Know the law! Poster | Card

• Canadian Paediatric Society- Caring for Kids: Talking to your teen about vaping
• Consider the consequences of vaping
• Government of Ontario
• Health Canada
• Health Canada: Talking with your teen about vaping: A tip sheet for parents
• Health Canada Vaping and the Consequences
• Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Not an Experiment
• Talk About Series - The Lung Association