K - 3 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
- Family IT Guy - Simple guides to keep kids safe online
- Media Smarts - Canada's center for digital media literacy
- 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
- Erase Report It Tool - Parent or student tool to report anything to a school that does not feel right
- Fight Child Abuse - Advocacy group
- Kids in the Know - Safety education program
Sexual Health Resources
- AMAZE Junior - Video clips on a variety of topics including puberty, consent, and body safety
- 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 Sexual Health - Resources for parents and teachers (Alberta Health Services)
- Teaching Children About Consent (video)
Books
- Boys, Girls, & Body Science: A first book about facts of life
- Meg Hickling
- What's the Big Secret?: Talking about sex with girls and boys
- Laurie Krasny Brown
- Who has what? : All about girls' bodies and boys' bodies
- Robie H. Harris
- What makes a baby?
- Cory Silverber
- It's NOT the Stork! A book about girls, boys, babies, bodies, families and friends
- Robie H. Harris
- Amazing You! Getting smart about your private parts
- Gail Saltz
- Where Willy Went....The big story of a little sperm!
- Nicholas Allan