Figure 4: Inquiry Components in Healthy Living Long Description

Figure four displays a chart with two columns. Chart header reads “Healthy Active Living Education: Strands, Subgroup and Living Skills”

Column one describes three “Living Skills”

  • Personal Skills: self awareness and self-mentoring skills, adaptive, management and coping skills
  • Interpersonal Skills: Communication skills, relationship and social skills
  • Thinking Skills: Planning, processing, drawing conclusions/presenting results, reflecting/evaluating

Column two displays four rows.

Row One header reads “Strand A: Active Living”

A1 – Active Participation

  • regular participation, variety, lifelong activity
  • enjoyment, motivation

A2 – Physical Fitness

  • Fitness development though daily physical activity, personal fitness plans

A3 – Safety

  • Personal safety and safety of others during physical activity

Row Two header reads “Strand B: Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, Strategies”

B1 - Movement Skills and Concepts

  • Movement skills: stability, locomotion, manipulation
  • Movement concepts: body awareness, effort, spatial awareness, relationships
  • Movement principles

B2 - Movement Strategies

  • Components of physical activities
  • Strategies and tactics of all physical activities

Row Three is emphasized by a bold trim with header “Strand C: Healthy Living” encompassing the six Inquiry Components.

C1 - Understanding Health Concepts

  • Understanding the factors that contribute to healthy growth and development

C2 - Making Healthy Choices

  • Applying healthy knowledge, making decisions about personal health and well-being

C3 – Making Connections for Healthy Living

  • Making connections to link personal health and well-being to others and the world around them

Row Four does not have a header. Content reads: ”Expectations in the Healthy Living strand focus on the following four health topics.  Learning about mental health and emotional well-being can be a part of learning related to all of these health topics, just as it is part of learning across the curriculum.

Health topic one “Healthy Eating”

Health topic two “Personal Safety and Injury Prevention”

Health topic three “Substance Use, Addictions and Related Behaviours”

Health topic four “Human Development and Sexual Health”

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