The Tikkun Project
Individual and Community Wellbeing
Informed by the text Ve’ahavta L’reyacha Kamocha, Love Your Neighbour As You Love Yourself, students create, refine, and implement a plan to ensure that people in the community have what they need to be well.
Students consider their favourite foods and learn to sort and evaluate them to decide what food would be best as part of a healthy meal for others. Students practice healthy activities and learn strategies for self-regulation as other tools that might be used in the development of a plan to help support others.
The development and implementation of the final plan will be informed by advice and guidance from local experts from organizations that help to support others. Students will evaluate the outcome of their plan against the criteria.
This unit discusses things that all people need and brings students’ attention to the idea that not everyone has access to having all their needs met. This should be thoughtfully approached in communities where students and families may be the ones who don't have access to healthy food. When this is the case, the focus of the critical challenge might shift to centre the school community to see how students might work to ensure better access to healthy food for all families in the community.
Lines of Inquiry
WELL What does it mean to feel well?
Students consider the foods they eat and learn to categorize them in different ways. They also consider the difference between feeling hungry and experiencing hunger.
WELL What are the best things we can do to feel well?
Students list and compare strategies to help themselves and others feel calm, alert, and ready in home and school settings. They learn to choose the strategies best suited to the time, tools, and expectations of the situation.
WELL How can we use what we know to help make sure others feel well?
In this line of inquiry, students focus on developing tools and strategies to learn about the needs of others, and consider the extent to which the strategies they use to keep themselves well can be used to help others feel well.