Plan de Cours

Life 11 provides an opportunity for learners to engage in experiences that help them to build critical life, career, and health skills that will guide them in their emerging relationship with self, family, community, and environment. This course combines elements of health education and career education to help equip young people with skills and knowledge to manage uncertainty and change in their lives. 

Health Education at the high school level provides an opportunity for students to have safe, non-judgemental, conversation based learning experiences to explore a range of protective factors that promote physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health. Health education not only contributes to the promotion of personal and social development, but also addresses health at the population health level.

Career education at the high school level can help learners identify interests, develop skills and align career choices with an education plan. There are positive outcomes for learners who participate in school-based career courses, have career conversations, and align their education plans with their career goals.

The outcomes in this course are organized into 4 themes:

Identity and Changes
This theme is designed to provide learners opportunities to reflect on healthy ways to navigate change in their personal and work lives presently and in the future.This includes gaining a better understanding of their emerging sense of self and their place in the world. 

Social Determinants of Health
Learners will consider the impacts of Social Determinants of Health on people in Nova Scotia. This includes topics like access to education, impact of the environment, food security, etc. They will evaluate the impact of protective factors like supportive environments, having a sense of connectedness and belonging, food literacy, and career and education planning. Learners will also evaluate methods used to address inequities relating to the social determinants of health.

Skills for Work and Life
Learners will analyse various skills and health behaviours that can contribute positively to their work and personal lives. They will look at how transferable skills such as interpersonal skills, habit formation, time management, food literacy, and the development of financial literacy can be applied across various situations they may encounter. Skills-based health education fosters informed citizens who are able to seek services and advocate for policies and environments that affect their personal health, the health of their relationships, and the health of their community and beyond.

Service, Advocacy, and Action
The modules in this course support the development of skills and concepts that learners can use to engage in a service, advocacy, and/or action response to a community health issue that matters to them. Planning for the final module of the course begins at the onset as learners build key understandings that will help them shape a meaningful action for them.

This Course has just been added, more material and resources will be added as they are developed

Updated July 11, 2025