TBDHU Resources
External Resources
Tools, Fact Sheets and Checklists
- The Children Count Pilot Study Project (PDF) - Utilizing the school climate survey for coordinated health monitoring and planning for children and youth in Ontario.
- Children Count Pilot Study Project: Healthy Living Module Toolkit (PDF) - A toolkit to support school boards and public health units to collect child and youth health and well-being information (the Healthy Living Module) in a partnership model, for collaborative action
- Rethinking Rewards - Rewards are commonly used to recognize students for classroom success. However, rewarding children with food, healthy or unhealthy, can lead to problems with children’s diets and health. You can help your students practice what they learn in the classroom about healthy eating and Canada’s Food Guide by ensuring that classroom rewards are healthy.
- Tips for School Fundraising - Fundraising to support school activities is common and important. You can help your students practice what they learn in the classroom about healthy eating and Canada’s Food Guide by ensuring that your school fundraising activities are healthy.
Food & Nutrition Teaching Resources
- Teach Food First: An Educator’s Toolkit for Exploring Canada’s Food Guide
- Hands on Food: A Food Literacy approach to teaching about food, science, math and more!
- Traditional Harvesting Resource: Video and Interactive Game
- Ontario Physical Health and Education Association
- Food for Thought - Improving Food Literacy (Alimenter la réflexion pour des choix plus sains)
- Food Literacy Conversation Starters: Videos and Discussion Guides (Gr. 1-3 and Gr. 4-6) (Vidéos et guides de discussion pour lancer des conversations sur la littératie alimentaire)
- Lesson Plans (Plans de leçons)
- Teach Nutrition: Learning Together with Food
- Sustain Ontario: Food is Science (L’alimentation c’est de la Science)
- Food and Nutrition Literacy: Teaching Resources
- At My Best (À Mon Meilleur - une trousse d’outils gratuite axée sur les programmes-cadres)
- Nurturing Healthy Eaters in Elementary Schools and Secondary Schools
Personal Safety & Injury Prevention
- Allergy Aware.ca - This website has been developed to assist school boards, principals, teachers, staff and others who play an important role in helping to create safer environments for pupils with life-threatening allergies.
Hand Hygiene
- A humourous video of "Sneezing Olympics" that can be shown to your students:
Physical Activity
- Ontario Ministry of Education on Physical Activity - Resources and tools to be used in the classroom for the purpose of encouraging physical activity among students.
Mental Health
- Positive Mental Health Toolkit - Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
- Student Mental Health Action Kit - School Mental Health Ontario
- Promoting Mental Health: Finding a Shared Language video from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health:
For Further Information
Call the Healthy Schools Program: (807) 625-5900
or toll-free 1-888-294-6630