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By the end of this lesson, students will be able to participate actively and cooperatively in a number of team-building games as well as demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to...
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to participate actively and cooperatively in a number of team-building games as well as demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to...
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: actively participate in target activities; send objects to a target using an underhand throw; demonstrate behaviours and apply procedures to...
This section provides a downloadable file of all the 50 GIF Activity Cards. The GIF Activity Cards can be used and incorporated into your teaching.
Always Changing and Growing Up: Grades 7 & 8 is designed to promote a healthy, active lifestyle to adolescent students in Grades 7 and 8.
Engaging Students in Healthy Living through Drama is meant to be a starting point, a resource to support educators in planning and exploring new approaches to teaching healthy living through drama-based activities. Drama-based activities may include students: exploring conflict through role-play and...
There are numerous benefits to engaging students in healthy living through drama, which include the following: Contributing to a Healthy School Approach by fostering a learning environment and learning opportunities that support the cognitive, emotional, and social development of students...
You don’t need to be a drama teacher to use drama-based activities to explore healthy living concepts! Planning Your Approach It can be a rewarding experience to engage youth as part of your team in developing a planned approach to using drama as a method for exploring the healthy living concepts...
The Ontario curriculum supports the needs of today’s students, who require the information, knowledge, and skills necessary to become critical thinkers and to make sound decisions about matters affecting their health and well-being before they have to make decisions in real life. Since much of the...
Health topics are intrinsically connected to students’ personal values, perspectives, identities, and beliefs. As such, teaching students about health issues provides unique opportunities and challenges for educators. It is important to protect and promote the self-respect and well-being of all...
While teaching healthy living can be challenging, most educators find that once a safe, inclusive, and accepting learning environment has been established, they can lead thoughtful and productive discussions with their students. In a classroom where respectful teacher–student relationships have been...
It is important to create a safe and inclusive environment that fosters creative expression and openness. This can sometimes be a delicate balance to achieve. It is important to recognize that students’ seemingly inappropriate or undesirable behaviours or responses (inappropriate humour, acting out)...
The class with which I will use this Approach: Grade 9, period 2 My Assets Health and Physical Education colleagues for content resources Public health nurse for local statistics and information about community resources Drama department head, agreed to collaborate and provide an in-school workshop...
The outline of the Creative Process has been excerpted from page 16 of the Ontario Ministry of Education's The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: The Arts to support educators in fostering creative expression and critical thinking when using a drama-based approach to explore Healthy Living...
Effective program planning can be designed to facilitate the use of drama-based approaches and activities to engage students in healthy living. Program planning models are moving away from the traditional one-to-two-week blocked units of health and towards a more integrated approach whereby students...
This section is composed of drama-based activities that include: exploring conflict through role-play and analysing their character’s motivation for their actions; creating skits, a spoken word poem, or song to express their perspective about a situation or topic; and/or to demonstrate their...
What I Really Want to Know Use a Word Wall to help students generate questions of curiosity about healthy living concepts such as mental health, bullying and harassment, stereotypes, STIs, sexual health and/ or heatlhy relationships. Life in Images Use images to help students consolidate their...
Inspired by Images Use images and a Gallery Walk to help students consolidate their learning about behaviours and actions that can lead to unnecessary risk. Students then create a performance to share their learning with others and promote behaviours that reduce injury and contribute to a healthy...
The following considerations should be kept in mind to support quality assessment when providing students with opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of healthy living concepts and to apply their living skills through a drama-based performance task. The task(s) should: focus on the...