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H&PE Elementary Resources
Ophea’s H&PE Curriculum Resources: Grades 1-8 addressing the H&PE Curriculum, 2015 continue to be available. Throughout the school year, new lesson plans will be added to further support you in teaching the current curriculum. With the release of the 2019 Elementary H&PE curriculum, Ophea will...
Section 8: How to Market Your Program and Integrate Student Choice
The desire to create a focus course will not guarantee that it will run. In many cases, the focus course may compete against other courses currently running in a department or another optional course students may need to take as a prerequisite or graduation requirement. Some students may not be...
Clearing the Air About Cannabis: Using a harm reduction approach to cannabis education in the classroom and the school setting
What do students need to know and be able to do in order to make informed decisions when dealing with situations involving cannabis? In the fifth installment of our “Clearing the Air About Cannabis” series, we tackle how cannabis education can be implemented in the classroom through a harm reduction...
Consent Culture in the “New Normal”
Students who are Wheelchair Users
Continued Learning for Educators
Connection to Real Life / Becoming an Advocate
“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...
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...
Four Corners
About Stop, Start, Consider!
Ophea’s Stop, Start, Consider! resource is a free downloadable poster series that has been developed to support educators in identifying and shifting away from practices that have the potential to cause harm to marginalized students by providing alternative strategies and encouraging meaningful...
Jack.org
Ophea’s Sector 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 connections between...
Great Questions Lead to Great Learning Opportunities
H&PE Secondary Resources
Ophea is excited to support quality implementation of the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) Curriculum: Grades 9-12 . Ophea's H&PE Secondary Resources support teachers in helping students acquire the physical and health literacy skills needed to thrive in the 21 st century and lead a healthy...
The Role of Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers in Health and Physical Education
Please note: The word parent/s is used in this guide to refer to parent/s or guardian/s. It may also be taken to include caregivers or close family members who are responsible for raising a child. Parents, guardians, and caregivers play a crucial role in the health and well-being of their children...
Lesson Plans
The lesson plans in this resource are designed to support educators in providing students with authentic, relevant, and contextual learning experiences that assist them in acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills to be health literate and media literate. The resources may be used with students...
Creating a Safe, Inclusive and Accepting Learning Environment
Much of the learning addressed in the Health and Physical Education curriculum is personal, particularly in the Healthy Living strand, including learning about vaccines and connections to health. This learning is intrinsically connected to students’ families and relationships and their cultural and...
Strand D, Healthy Living
Learning Goal We are learning how to make healthy eating choices and decisions, while practicing it in our daily life. Success Criteria I can describe the nutritional elements and facts that affect my food choices. I can make informed nutritional decisions and demonstrate actions that will...
Jay Williams, 2023/2024 Ophea Award for Outstanding Contribution Recipient (Posthumous)
The Ophea Award for Outstanding Contribution recognizes an individual, group, or organization for their exemplary contribution to the lives of children and youth in the areas of inclusive health and physical education, health and physical activity promotion, advocacy, and/or community development...