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Engaging Students in Healthy Living through Drama
When You Thrive, Your Students Thrive: Introducing Ophea’s Summer Viewing List
Great Questions Lead to Great Learning Opportunities
Moving Cooperatively in the Outdoors
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: identify and demonstrate characteristics of participating actively and safely in a variety of outdoor cooperative activities; apply relationship...
Additional Vaping Resources
DPA Every Day
DPA Every Day is a free resource designed to support the implementation of Daily Physical Activity (DPA) to enhance student well-being and achievement. This resource encourages healthy, active living and inspires students, parents/guardians/caregivers, and staff to prioritize getting active every...
Choose Your Fun!
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...
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...
Connection to Real Life / Becoming an Advocate
Ask a Dietitian: Supporting Educator Nutrition and Well-being
Health promotion for educators has a positive impact on overall well-being. H&PE can play a key role in shaping our students’ views about healthy and active living, but it is equally important to practice self-care and stay up to date on our own health education. Self-care ensures that we have what...
Responding, Recovering and Re-imagining
Using Ophea’s Vaccination Talks Toolkit
Disability at the Forefront: Q&A Power Panel Webinar Recap
On October 18, 2022, Ophea hosted a panel discussion webinar to address some of the common themes educators face when teaching students with disabilities. Ophea’s new resource Disability-Centred Movement: Supporting Inclusive Physical Education was launching just a few days later, and the webinar...
Drawing the Line on Gender-Based Violence in Ontario
This webinar, developed in partnership with Ophea and the Ontario Coalition for Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC), is designed for grades 7-12 educators to discuss the use of education for gender-based violence prevention. The session will make connections to the Health and Physical Education curricula...
Always Changing and Growing Up: How might we support learning in the classroom and beyond?
Secondary H&PE: Highlights, Opportunities & Challenges
This workshop will provide participants with a deeper understanding of the vision, goals and content of the 2015 secondary Health and Physical Education curriculum and available resources. Participants will explore the strands, analyze their current practice and determine how they will apply their...
More Soccer Lead-Up Games
Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) Approach
The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach was developed by researchers at Loughborough University in England to tap into children’s inherent desire to play. Bunker and Thorpe (1982) developed TGfU around the concept of teaching kids games by playing games . Butler et al. (2008) identified...