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COMPASS
Ophea’s Monthly Recognition Spotlight aims to illuminate the bright spots within the education sector through recognizing the critical work being done by community members and value-aligned organizations, and its impact on student and staff well-being. This initiative also aims to strengthen...
Practice Session
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: use self-awareness and self-monitoring skills to facilitate their own and others’ safe and active participation in sustained moderate to vigorous
Section 3: Success for All - Development of Physical Literacy Skills
The vision of the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum is that all students will develop physical and health literacy, which in turn will help them acquire the competence, confidence and therefore, the commitment to lead a healthy active life across their lifespan. Becoming physically...
Inquiry-Based Learning Approaches
Students have the opportunity to enhance their inquiry skills to develop their health literacy related to the topic of vaccinations. Students formulate questions about vaccines through an inquiry approach and then identify, gather, and organise information from various digital and media sources...
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...
Health and Physical Education
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...
Getting Started with Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy
A Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy (CRRP) approach in Health and Physical Education (H&PE) requires educators to take the time to do some personal thinking and reflection. It also requires educators to take the time to get to know their students and the identities they hold. Rather than...
Where Does Food Come From?
We are learning where food comes from and how it can affect its nutritional value and the environment.
Convince Me
Costly Habits
Secondary
At the secondary level, five out of nine activities are geared towards grades nine and ten and four activities are geared towards grades eleven and twelve. Each activity includes references to the overall expectations for the Healthy Living Strand in The Ontario Curriculum, Grade 9-12: Health and...
Fitness Review
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: self-monitor their active participation in a variety of activities while demonstrating critical and creative thinking to assess their level of heal
Making Healthy and Safe Decisions: Part II
We are learning to apply our health knowledge about smoking, vaping, and healthy coping, relationship, and critical-thinking skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions for our
Exploring Social-Emotional Learning Skills in Health and Physical Education Webinar
In November, Ophea hosted a webinar to explore Strand A: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills within the 2019 Elementary Health and Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum and share examples of how these skills can be taught and assessed in Grades 1 through 8. We would like to thank our co-presenters...
Truth or Lie
Inquiry-Based Learning: An Educator’s Perspective
Q&A featuring Paul André Cyr, EAO, Teacher at St. Marguerite d'Youville 1. Why do you feel inquiry is such a powerful approach to engage students in learning? Inquiry is empowering. It allows students to gain greater control of their learning, and to become more critical of their progress. Students...
Modified Jai Alai
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: apply their knowledge of sending and receiving movement skills and tactical solutions to solve tactical problems in a modified game of jai alai