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Exploring Social-Emotional Learning Skills in Health and Physical Education Webinar
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.
Get In The Game With Teaching Games for Understanding
Understanding how to teach games isn’t exactly child’s play. But after you complete this active workshop, it will probably feel that way. At the end of this session, you’ll learn about Teaching Games for Understanding’s four game categories and how these skills and strategies are transferable...
References
Amos, S., & Orchard, S. (1998). Getting Assessment Right: Health and Physical Education: Grades 1-8 . Ontario: Data Based Directions. Gallahue, D., & Donnelly, F. C., (2007). Developmental Physical Education for all Children. Ontario: Human Kinetics. Goodwin, D. (2000). Inclusive Physical Education...
Sample Assessment Plan
Select the applicable curriculum expectations: C1. demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to healthy development; C2. demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and...
Viewing with a Critical Eye
Getting Started with Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy
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.
Understanding Inquiry in Health and Physical Education
“Inquiry-based learning is a process where students are involved in their learning, formulating questions, investigate widely and then build new understandings, meanings and knowledge. That knowledge is new to the students and may be used to answer a question, to develop a solution or to support a...
Supporting Learning about Mental Health in Elementary Health and Physical Education Webinar
In January, Ophea hosted two new webinars (one in English and one in French) with a specific focus on understanding Mental Health as a health topic in the 2019 Ontario Elementary Health and Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum. With the goal of enhancing teacher confidence, the webinar examined...
Assessment When Interpreting and Analysing
Educators may pose the following questions to prompt students to reflect on their actions when they are learning to Interpret and Analyse: Did you find enough information to answer your question? Is any information missing (e.g., a point of view or voice not represented)? How does your information...
Draw the Line Coach Scenario Activity
Inspired to Use My Voice
Inspired by Popular Media
Getting Started
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...
Supporting Student Learning in Stages 2 & 3 of the Inquiry-Based Learning Process
Asking questions and searching for answers is a fundamental part of being human. A young child curiosity knows no bounds. Whether it’s “why?” or “what’s that?” they constantly look for answers from the trusted adults in their lives. As children mature, however, an important shift takes place whereby...
Food for Thought
Facilitating Learning to Evaluate and Draw Conclusions
To support students as they learn to Evaluate and Draw Conclusions, a variety of skills are needed. These skills include: Evaluating information based on the evidence Synthesizing and combining information Drawing conclusions based on analysis of information or evidence Making a decision or choice...
Activities
H&PE Secondary Resources: Assessment and Evaluation Tools Ophea Student Resources Post/send writeable tools for students to access to record their thinking about a variety of topics, questions, concepts, images (e.g., fitness, motivation to participate, images/concepts/questions related to Healthy...