Guides, templates and toolkits designed to support educators in delivering effective, age-appropriate health education.
These resources offer practical classroom activities, curriculum-aligned content and tools to help normalize conversations and reduce stigma in the classroom.
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Guides
Supporting Student Health Guide – Elementary (BC Curriculum)
This resource offers adaptable strategies and topic-specific suggestions to support health education that promotes mental and sexual well-being alongside physical health for elementary grades.
Supporting Student Health Guide – Secondary (BC Curriculum)
This resource offers adaptable strategies and topic-specific suggestions to support health education that promotes mental and sexual well-being alongside physical health for secondary grades.
Beyond the Birds and the Bees (Student Commission of Canada and Healthy Schools BC)
This includes a webinar series and a resource guide for educators that aligns with the B.C. curriculum. These resources were designed in partnership with youth and include topics such as creating a safer space in the classroom, consent, healthy relationships and safer sex.
Self/Peer Exploitation Resource Guide for Schools (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
A guide to help educators address self/peer exploitation (sharing of sexual pictures or videos of self or peer), recognizing schools' key role in supporting students.
Self/Peer Exploitation Resource Guide for Families (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
This resource offers practical support and guidance for parents and families to prevent and respond to unintended consequences of digital media use (e.g. viewing a sexual image) with their child or youth.
Growing Up OK (Government of Manitoba)
A puberty guide designed for children ages 9-12 that offers clear, unbiased information to help young people navigate the key developmental stage between childhood and adolescence.
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Parent letter templates
Supporting Student Health Guide - Secondary (B.C. Curriculum)
Parent awareness letter on page 41.
Supporting Student Health Guide - Elementary (B.C. Curriculum)
Parent awareness letter on page 48.
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Toolkits
Puberty Kit – Grade 4+ (Alberta Health)
This resource provides templates for educators interested in preparing a “puberty kit” to support lessons in the classroom.
Birth Control Kit (Alberta Health)Designed for educators, this link provides templates to create a “birth control kit” to support classroom lessons on reproduction, contraception and sexually transmitted infections.