The Ontario curriculum supports the needs of today’s students, who require the information, knowledge, and skills necessary to become critical thinkers and to make sound decisions about matters affecting their health and well-being before they have to make decisions in real life. Since much of the...
Health topics are intrinsically connected to students’ personal values, perspectives, identities, and beliefs. As such, teaching students about health issues provides unique opportunities and challenges for educators. It is important to protect and promote the self-respect and well-being of all...
While teaching healthy living can be challenging, most educators find that once a safe, inclusive, and accepting learning environment has been established, they can lead thoughtful and productive discussions with their students. In a classroom where respectful teacher–student relationships have been...
It is important to create a safe and inclusive environment that fosters creative expression and openness. This can sometimes be a delicate balance to achieve. It is important to recognize that students’ seemingly inappropriate or undesirable behaviours or responses (inappropriate humour, acting out)...
The class with which I will use this Approach: Grade 9, period 2 My Assets Health and Physical Education colleagues for content resources Public health nurse for local statistics and information about community resources Drama department head, agreed to collaborate and provide an in-school workshop...
The outline of the Creative Process has been excerpted from page 16 of the Ontario Ministry of Education's The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: The Arts to support educators in fostering creative expression and critical thinking when using a drama-based approach to explore Healthy Living...
Effective program planning can be designed to facilitate the use of drama-based approaches and activities to engage students in healthy living. Program planning models are moving away from the traditional one-to-two-week blocked units of health and towards a more integrated approach whereby students...
This section is composed of drama-based activities that include: exploring conflict through role-play and analysing their character’s motivation for their actions; creating skits, a spoken word poem, or song to express their perspective about a situation or topic; and/or to demonstrate their...
What I Really Want to Know Use a Word Wall to help students generate questions of curiosity about healthy living concepts such as mental health, bullying and harassment, stereotypes, STIs, sexual health and/ or heatlhy relationships. Life in Images Use images to help students consolidate their...
Inspired by Images Use images and a Gallery Walk to help students consolidate their learning about behaviours and actions that can lead to unnecessary risk. Students then create a performance to share their learning with others and promote behaviours that reduce injury and contribute to a healthy...
The following considerations should be kept in mind to support quality assessment when providing students with opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of healthy living concepts and to apply their living skills through a drama-based performance task. The task(s) should: focus on the...
In the digital age, it is important for students to reflect on how and where they consume content related to food. Students need to develop the ability to think critically when viewing text, food packages, menus, and electronic media to analyze food marketing techniques and interpret the messages...
Food literacy and media literacy are concepts that can be taught leveraging both The Ontario Curriculum, Grade 1–8: Health and Physical Education (2019) and The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1–8: Language (2006) . Food literacy is embedded in the Healthy Eating curriculum expectations as part of the...
Cannabis Education Resources has been developed to provide educators and administrators access to evidence-informed information on substance use (specifically cannabis) to help students develop the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions to support their health and well-being. The...
The purpose of this guide is to promote an open dialogue within the school community about recreational and medical cannabis, to address questions and concerns, and to foster a whole-school approach and shared responsibility when dealing with situations involving cannabis. The Cannabis Education...
Class management denotes the ability of the Early Learning-Kindergarten team to organize the elements of the learning environment and to maintain the appropriate behaviour of children. Health and physical activity is taught in a variety of settings (such as gymnasiums, outdoors, hallways, classrooms...
Educators must always be aware of and sensitive to the many potential social and environmental influences that may directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously, impact their perspectives and teaching. Three main lenses have been identified that may inform the practice of Early Learning...
Ophea's Early Learning Resource is divided into 10 units, which include activities to help children develop physical and health literacy. These units are Introductory Activities and Cooperative Games; Kicking; Rolling and Bouncing; Throwing and Catching; Travelling; Jump, Land and Balance; Creative...
Balance Stations Curriculum Expectations: 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 Balancing in Interesting Shapes Curriculum Expectations: 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 Jump and Land Curriculum Expectations: 7.1, 8.1, 8.2 Jump and Land Circuit Curriculum Expectations: 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 Nursery Rhyme Circuit Curriculum...
Ball Dribbling and Trapping using Feet Curriculum Expectations: 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 Ball Kicking Variations Curriculum Expectations: 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 Beanbag Dribble Curriculum Expectations: 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 Kick to a Target Curriculum Expectations: 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 Red Rover, Kick it Over Curriculum Expectations...
