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Creative Ways to Say No
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Smoke, Eat, Vape, Drink: What’s the Difference?
Approaches to Exploring Topics That May Be Sensitive to Teach
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)...
How do the Ontario Physical Activity Safety Standards in Education Support Schools?
As we continue to move through the school year, we’re sharing our platform with the Ontario School Boards' Insurance Exchange (OSBIE) to provide you with some risk management tips related to activity management and injury prevention for physical education, intramurals, and interschool sports...
Food for Thought – Improving Food Literacy
Food for Thought – Improving Food Literacy is a free online resource that integrates food literacy and media literacy into discussions about healthy eating which provides students with the skills they need to make healthier food choices in a variety of settings, taking into account the factors...
Health and Physical Education
Food literacy and media literacy are concepts that can be taught leveraging The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Health and Physical Education (2019) . A key element of the Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum for Grades 1–8 is for students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to...
Language
Food literacy and media literacy are concepts that can be taught leveraging the Media Literacy Strand in The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Language (2006) . The Media Literacy Strand focuses on helping students develop the skills required to understand, create, and critically interpret media texts...
Financial Literacy
Teaching about food literacy can be linked to financial literacy in a number of ways. As students apply their understanding of food advertising and marketing to make healthier food choices and decisions, they must consider the factors over which they have control. This may include making the...
Creating a Safe and Inclusive Learning Environment
“Connections to the home are important. Students bring their learning home to their families, and they have variable amounts of control over the food they eat at home and the food they bring to school. Educators need to consider these realities and be aware of issues such as poverty, food allergies...
Connection to Real Life / Becoming an Advocate
“Health and physical education programs are most effective when they are delivered in healthy schools and when students’ learning is supported by school staff, families, and communities. When students see the concepts they are learning in health and physical education reflected and reinforced...
Aunt’s Love Interest Scenario Student Worksheet
About Stop, Start, Consider!
Ophea’s Stop, Start, Consider! resource is a free downloadable poster series that has been developed to support educators in identifying and shifting away from practices that have the potential to cause harm to marginalized students by providing alternative strategies and encouraging meaningful...
Introducing Play for All: Strategies for Inclusive Intramurals
Quality intramural programs support every student in experiencing the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical benefits from participating in, contributing to, and/or leading intramural activities at school. For years, educators and school leaders across Ontario have accessed resources from Ophea...
Support Tools
The intramural Support Tools have been developed to support the planning and implementation of an intramural program. Use these customizable tools as is, or add/revise questions and components to meet the school’s needs. These tools can be printed or completed online to support intramural planning...
Disability-Centred Movement Activities
Schools are essential settings to promote the healthy development of every student. Physical activity opportunities throughout the school day can engage students with disabilities in experiences that promote healthy active living, along with building a sense of belonging in the school setting. The...