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Doing Disability-Centred Physical Education and Sport
Inclusive Health and Physical Education (H&PE) programming that affirms and celebrates a variety of abilities is crucial if every student is to experience feelings of belonging within H&PE and enjoy the lifelong benefits of healthy, active living. Without intentional planning and consideration from...
Stop, Start, Consider!: Student-Centred Practices in Health and Physical Education
Stop, Start, Consider! is a free downloadable poster series developed to support educators, school staff, and other members of the school community in creating identity-affirming, safer Health and Physical Education (H&PE) learning environments for every student. When students experience feelings of...
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...
Doing Gender-Inclusive Physical Education & Sport
Health and Physical Education (H&PE) learning environments as they are typically structured can be sites of discrimination, harassment or other harm for students because of their gender identity and gender expression. For example, in relying upon a simple binary (e.g., separate boys and girls teams...
H&PE Elementary Resources
Ophea’s H&PE Curriculum Resources: Grades 1-8 addressing the H&PE Curriculum, 2015 continue to be available. Throughout the school year, new lesson plans will be added to further support you in teaching the current curriculum. With the release of the 2019 Elementary H&PE curriculum, Ophea will...
H&PE Secondary Resources
Ophea is excited to support quality implementation of the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum: Grades 9-12 . Ophea's H&PE Secondary Resources support teachers in helping students acquire the physical and health literacy skills needed to thrive in the 21 st century and lead a healthy...
Evaluating Media
We are learning to describe how advertising, food marketing, and media affect food choices; We are learning to explain how advertising and media influences can be evaluated to help people make...
Media Presentation
We are learning to use nutrition fact tables and ingredient lists on food labels to make informed choices; We are learning to describe how advertising, food marketing, and media affect...
Factors Influencing Eating Habits and Food Choices
We are learning about factors that influence eating habits and food choices to develop personal guidelines for healthier eating.
Am I Hungry/Thirsty?
We are learning to recognize the hunger and thirst cues from our body and physical factors that influence our desire to eat and drink.
Benefits of Healthy Eating and Active Living
We are learning how healthy eating and active living work together to improve a person’s overall health; We are learning how we can promote the benefits of healthy eating and active living to others.
Mentorship Moment
We are learning about factors that influence eating habits and food choices to develop personal guidelines for healthier eating; We are learning to recognize the hunger and thirst cues from...
The Role of Food in Contributing to or Preventing Health Disorders
We are learning about the role food can play as a contributing or preventive factor in health disorders to develop healthier eating patterns.
Developing Healthier Eating Patterns to Reduce the Risk of Disease
We are learning about the role food can play as a contributing or preventive factor in health disorders; We are learning to use the information about the role of food as a contributing or...
Effects of Personal and External Factors on Food Choices and Habits
We are learning how personal and external factors affect people’s food choices and eating habits, and ways to encourage healthier eating practices.
What Do You Have to Say?
We are learning to use the information about the role of food as a contributing or preventive factor in health disorders to develop healthier eating patterns; We are learning how personal and...
Evaluating Food Habits
We are learning about behaviours that support healthy eating to evaluate personal eating habits and food choices on the basis of the recommendations in Canada’s Food Guide.
Evaluating Food Choices Using Canada’s Food Guide
We are learning to evaluate personal eating habits and food choices using Canada’s Food Guide taking into account behaviours that support healthy eating.
Promoting Healthy Eating Habits and Food Choices
We are learning to identify strategies for promoting healthy eating habits and food choices within the school, home, and community.