Stretch Wave
Teach the benefits of stretching with Stretch Wave, a fun group stretching activity that can help increase flexibility, improve range of motion, reduce injury during activity and prevent post-exercise muscle soreness.
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Heart-Health-Run
Heart Health Run creatively combines physical activity with a lesson in the importance of adopting healthy-living habits before the onset of heart disease. Students will learn to identify, and remember, the risk factors of heart disease.
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Math Match
This fun game combines numeracy and physical activity in a way that will get your students to think fast and move faster! Math Match is an easily adaptable game and is suitable for students of all math levels and physical abilities.
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Alphabet Search & Pass Me By
Two great games for gymnasiums and outdoor spaces! Alphabet Search is a word and letter association game great for younger children with lots of energy, creativity and curiosity. Pass Me By can be played as moderate or vigorous physical activity, and is suitable for all ages and physical activity levels.
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Speed Spelling
This high energy relay activity will get your students’ hearts pumping and brains thinking! Speed Spelling helps you teach the language curriculum while your students get a mind and body workout.
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Fitness Shake Up
Fitness Shake-up is a versatile physical activity that can be easily modified for any age or skill level simply by changing the fitness tasks and number of repetitions. Incorporate daily lessons and math by changing colours to reflect subject matter and numbers to math equations.
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Patterns
A great activity to get your students, campers or youth groups thinking and moving this summer! Stuck for a team building or ice breaker idea? This creative and energizing activity can be adapted to fit any age or group size.
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Activity Idea: I Like to Move It!
Challenge your students’ targeting skills as they work as a team to move a ball into the opposing court using only beanbags.
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In-Coming
In-Coming is a fun and easy game to play with students of all ages, skill levels and abilities. Students learn tactical awareness and how to hit for control and accuracy when playing striking and fielding games. Variations of this game can incorporate catching or modifying the type of racquet.
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10 Up, 10 Down
Take it up a notch and engage students in a combination of physical activities and running that increase and decrease in intensity as you progress through the activities.
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Active Acrostics and Alliteration
Get your students to put on their poetic thinking hats and get moving! This activity integrates physical activity with the language curriculum, helping you meet expectations not only in H&PE but in the areas of writing, oral and visual communication.
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Fit Camp
Fit Camp – is FUN! Take your students through a series of energizing fitness exercises to challenge and help increase their individual level of fitness. This activity can be done almost anywhere and with little to no equipment. Get started at school and encourage participants to do this workout at home too.
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Scrabble!
Scrabble! brings a new twist on the old fashioned Spelling Bee. This activity teaches spelling and encourages teamwork, fast thinking and co-operation. Kids won’t even know they are s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g!
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Our Forest Friends
A fun and energizing activity suitable for younger children. Forest Friends is a creative way to get young children moving while teaching about different animals. Use your imagination and make up some of your own movements.
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Where to Go? Où Aller ?
Have your students participate in this practical activity that can help inform them about the health related programs and services available to them in their community.
Encouragez la participation de vos élèves dans cette activité pratique qui peut aider à les informer sur des programmes reliés à la santé et des services à leur disposition dans la communauté.
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Be Seen and Herd
By taking a skill-theme approach to dance, students can learn the basic tools to help them move with a sense of freedom. This activity relies on teamwork and concentration for success!
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Hot Sun
The goal of the game is to be in the number one square. In order to do this, you must knock out the opponents who are in the higher spaces.
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Triangle and One
Challenge your students to a PlaySport activity that will assist in the development of their tactical skills by learning to maintain and regain possession.
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Are You Full of Beans?
Have you ever imagined using beans not just for food, but also as an inspiration for a physical activity? Get your students or campers to use their creativity and cooperation skills by participating in this fun activity.
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Bouncing Bubbles
Summer holidays are just around the corner, celebrate the beginning of summer by ‘Bouncing Bubbles’ with your students.
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Kickout!
By taking a skill-theme approach to learning soccer, your students will learn the basics so that they will have the tools to participate. This activity is all about ball control.
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Team Target
This activity will provide students the opportunity to work in teams by aiming at targets and getting physically active along the way.
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Healthy Eating Door Decorating Challenge
Raise awareness about Healthy Eating in your school by getting every classroom involved in a Healthy Eating Door Decorating Challenge.
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Spy Tag
This fun spy activity will get your ‘agents’ warmed up and ready for any activ8 challenge that comes their way.
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DPA - Wacky Winter Circuit
Winter is just around the corner! Get your students wound up about upcoming ‘wacky’ weather with the Wacky Winter Circuit!
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Everyone Jump Activity Idea
This cross-curricular activity provides the opportunity for students to creatively respond to music through writing or drawing and perform a dance routine.
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Walk About for All
Celebrate International Walk to School Month with Walk About For All! Get your students walking in a fun and creative way while implementing DPA.
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Dog Catcher
Come rain or shine on a September day, this fun and dynamic game will keep your students active indoors or outside.
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Chuck the Chicken
Take kids outside to enjoy the great summer weather. Working together, the young chicken chasers are guaranteed to have a lot of fun!
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Soccer Box Ball
Get students up, moving and kicking with Soccer Box Ball, a team activity that promotes cooperation.
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Circuit Fun
Circuit training is a great way to get your students active and having fun, regardless of athletic ability. Circuit Fun is adapted from the Canadian Active Living Fitness Circuit Charts.
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Free Dance - Broken Telephone
Relying on teamwork and concentration, this activity teaches students the basic tools required to help them move with a sense of freedom.
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Gymnastics Activities for Everyone
Gymnastics activities are fun way to engage students in physical activity while teaching fundamental movement skills. Check out these great activity ideas!
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Take Action Secondary - Cross-Curricular Teaching Ideas
These creative activities can address substance use and abuse prevention among secondary students, not only within the Health and Physical Education Curriculum but within in a variety of subject areas.
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Blanket Catch
Students learn to work cooperatively with this series of physical activity challenges using blankets and balls
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Code Word
Code Word encourages students to work together while being physically active. This is a great way to get students energized in a large space, gymnasium or multipurpose room.
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Magical Islands
Get your students up and moving quickly with this fun, physical activity which can easily be adapted into a magical Halloween game. Taken from Ontario HPE Curriculum Support: Junior Appendix B.
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DPA - Ultimate Space
Ultimate Space is a fun group activity and an easy way to implement 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity. Adaptations can be made to accommodate a range of abilities and different facilities.
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DPA - Space Mission
Space Mission is a fun activity for younger students and also a great opportunity for educators teaching Science & Technology to introduce a lesson and get students activated to learn.
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DPA - Mission Impossible
Mission Possible is a great way to implement 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity outdoors or it can be adapted for multi-purpose rooms or gymnasiums. Students are given task cards with a list of challenges that they must complete as quickly as possible.
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DPA - Corner Warm-Up
Corner Warm-Up is a great way to incorporate 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity during instructional time. It’s ideal for generalist teachers looking for an easy way to implement fun, safe activities in the classroom.
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Activity Ideas :: Past Activities
Activity Ideas :: Past Activities |
