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Exploring and Applying Vaping Education within the Elementary H&PE Curriculum Webinar Blog
Engaging Students in Healthy Living through Drama
Healthy Living Strand
The 2015 H&PE curriculum provides educators with an opportunity to integrate multiple aspects of healthy living and well-being by clustering expectations to connect with the skills students need for good overall health. As a result, the approach to learning becomes skill based rather than content...
Beyond the Walls: Activities for the Outdoors
Ophea’s Beyond the Walls: Activities for the Outdoors Resources have been developed to support elementary and secondary educators in using outdoor spaces safely and effectively for physical activity with students across the school day. This resource provides opportunities for students to observe...
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Section 3: Considerations for Offering a Focus Course
The Healthy Active Living Education (HALE) courses outlined in the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum are designed to allow secondary schools the opportunity to develop focus courses for Grades 9 through 12. These courses will focus on a particular group of physical activities through...
Connecting with Disability Sport Organizations
Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours
As students move through the school system, they will undoubtedly be affected by issues related to substance abuse and addictions, whether through their own experiences or those of family members, peers, or friends. Given the numerous substances available in our society, from prescription drugs to...
Assessment & Evaluation Tools
The Assessment and Evaluation Tools have been developed to support implementation of the H&PE Secondary Curriculum and Ophea’s H&PE Secondary Resources. The 12 resources are recordable PDFs and consist of teacher and student resources that may be used to gather evidence of learning, to record...
Starting the Year Off with Safe, Inclusive, and Fun Physical Activities
Summer Reflections and Preparing for the School Year Ahead
Social Determinants of Health
Global Perspective The World Health Organization affirms that the conditions in which people live directly affect the quality of their health i . These conditions are known as social determinants of health (SDH). The World Health Organization defines SDH as the living conditions in which people are...