The school environment offers a wide range of opportunities for students to be physically active. Implementing meaningful opportunities for students to be physically active can influence a student’s overall school experience, their physical and health literacy, and their overall health and well...
Creating asthma friendly environments allows children and youth with asthma to: maximize their potential for growth, development, and achievement limit school absenteeism participate in physical activity experience positive educational, social, physical and health benefits develop lifelong skills...
Ophea’s work takes place on traditional Indigenous territories across Ontario. Ophea’s head office is located on the traditional Indigenous territory of the Wendat, Anishnaabek (Ah-nish-in-a-bek), the Haudenosaunee (Ho-den-no-show-nee), Mississaugas of the Credit Nation, and the Métis Nation. We...
Inquiry-based learning is a student-centered learning approach that supports students in developing critical- and creative-thinking skills and other social-emotional learning skills in health and physical education. 1 Inquiry-based learning is a process in which students are involved in their...
English Oral Communication 1. Listening to Understand: listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. Reading and Literature Studies 2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic...
"Food literacy is having the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to choose, grow, prepare, and enjoy healthy food that support one’s health, community, and the environment. It means understanding the impact of our food choices on our health, the environment, and our economy." 1 To be food...
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...
Educators may find it useful to co-create classroom community agreements with students in their class at the start of the Healthy Living unit to help in establishing a safe and inclusive environment, in which participants can feel comfortable participating and learning. This agreement can also serve...
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...
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...
Inquiry is an approach to learning; educators may focus on the whole process or one or two of the components of inquiry. The educator decides at what stage of the inquiry process the inquiry is to begin and how much autonomy students are ready for, with respect to each component of the inquiry, as...
“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...
Educators may begin by asking what questions they currently ask their students. Do their questions provoke student thinking? How are their questions connected to the expected learning in the Health and Physical Education curriculum? There are many different types of questions that can be used in...
Gender based violence is a reality in Ontario. It is present in every city and community across the province and impacts the lives of friends, family members and colleagues 1 . Educators play a key role in gender based violence prevention by providing students with learning experiences grounded in...
“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...
Students formulate questions or make predictions about concepts, strategies, and/or the relationships between topics or skills, and plan investigations to answer the questions as they take an active role in their learning. As educators guide students through the Formulating Questions component of...
“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...
Assessment happens in an ongoing way when using inquiry. In inquiry-based learning, the educator assesses the curriculum expectations from the Health and Physical Education curriculum, integrating the process and the product of the inquiry where applicable, always planning based on curriculum. In...
As children become more independent and more responsible for their own safety, they learn the skills for assessing risk, responding to dangerous situations online, and protecting themselves from a variety of social dangers including bullying, abuse, violence, and other risks associated with...
As children become more independent and more responsible for their own safety, they learn the skills for assessing risk, responding to dangerous situations online, and protecting themselves from a variety of social dangers including bullying, abuse, violence, and other risks associated with...
