Grade 4-7 Helpful Resources
The following resources inform from a variety of perspectives and values. Please utilize the ones that are suitable for you and your student.
Digital Safety Resources
- Common Sense Media - Resource for parents regarding digital wellness
- CyberTip - Tip line for reporting online abuse and sextortion
- Family IT Guy - Simple guides to keep kids safe online
- Intimate Images Protection Service - Help with images shared without consent
- Media Smarts - Canada's center for digital media literacy
- Need Help Now - Help reporting and ending the spread of sexual images
- Parenting in the Online World Booklet - Information about parenting and technology from the Canadian Center for Child Protection
- Protect Kids Online - Up to date information on new technology and how to best protect kids
- RCMP Online Safety - RCMP tips for parents regarding online safety
- Safer Schools Together - Raising Digitally Responsible Youth: A Parent's Guide
Personal Safety Resources
- Canadian Center for Child Protection - Helping families protect children
- Erase Report It Tool - Parent or student tool to report anything to a school that does not feel right
- Fight Child Abuse - Advocacy group
- Foundry Kelowna - Youth mental wellness center (ages 12-24)
- Kids in the Know - Safety education program
Sexual Health Resources
- AMAZE - Video clips on a variety of topics on everything from body changes to sex to relationships
- Child and Adolescent Sexual Development - Age-based examples of sexual behaviour in children and adolescents
- Kids Health - Child and parent resources about health topics
- SIECCAN Sexual Health Education Benchmarks (for parents)
- SIECCAN Sexual Health Education Questions and Answers (for parents)
- Teaching Children About Consent (video)
- Teaching Tweens About Consent (video)
- Teaching Sexual Health - Resources for parents and teachers (Alberta Health Services)
Books
- Hair in Funny Places
- Babette Cole
- Ready, Set, Grow! A what's happening to my body? Book for younger girls
- Lynda Madaras
- On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow! A "what's happening to my body?" Book for Younger Boys
- Lynda Madaras
- The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: Revised Edition
- Lynda Madaras
- The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: Revised Edition
- Lynda Madaras
- My Body, My Self for Girls: The "What's Happening to My Body" workbook
- Lynda Madaras
- My Body, My Self for Boys: The "What's Happening to My Body" workbook
- Lynda Madaras
- The Period Book: Everything you don't want to ask (but need to know)
- Karen Gravelle
- It's Perfectly Normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health
- Robie H. Harris
- The Care and Keeping of You: The body book for younger girls, revised edition
- Valorie Schaefer
- The Care and Keeping of You 2: The body book for older girls
- Cara Natterson
- The Boy's Body Book: Everything you need to know for a healthy, happy you
- Kelli Dunham
- The Girl's Body Book: Everything you need to know for a healthy, happy you
- Kelli Dunham
- What's Happening to Me? (Girls)
- Sue Meredith
- What's Happening to Me? (Boys)
- Sue Meredith