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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...
Virtual Field Trips: Stress Management and Coping
Ophea and School Mental Health Ontario partnered to produce a series of virtual field trips embedded in three-part lesson plans that were released each month from January 2021 to June 2021. The virtual field trips cover the following topics related to stress management and coping: Breathing...
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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...
Exploring and Applying Vaping Education within the Elementary H&PE Curriculum
Join us for an hour-long discussion as we explore the scope and sequence of learning about vaping within the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum for grades 4-8. We will be modelling learning strategies, based on lesson plans, and together, will apply a harm reduction approach and...
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...
Promoting Healthy Eating Habits and Food Choices
We are learning to identify strategies for promoting healthy eating habits and food choices within the school, home, and community.
Managing Stress and Fostering Positive Mental Health
Guidelines for Staying Safe Outside of School
We are learning to use a decision-making process to apply good safety practices by developing safety guidelines for a variety of places and situations outside the classroom.
Factors of Intoxication
We are learning to apply decision-making, assertiveness, and refusal skills to deal with pressures pertaining to alcohol use or other behaviours that can later lead to addiction and we are learning to
Eating Healthy Anywhere
We are learning to set a goal for developing healthier eating habits using Canada’s Food Guide and we are learning ways of promoting healthier eating habits in different settings and situations.
Under Pressure
We are learning to use our critical thinking skills to describe how first- and second-hand smoke and vaping affects smokers and the people around them and we are learning to use our self-awareness
Building Healthy Eating Habits and Food Literacy Skills with the H&PE Curriculum
In previous webinars, we learned about Canada’s Food Guide and the connections to the Health & Physical Education(H&PE) curricula to help students develop the knowledge and skills to make the healthiest eating choices they can. Now we are going to hear from educators who are using these strategies...
Responding to Scenarios
We are learning to apply our social-emotional learning skills and our knowledge of potentially dangerous situations, the impact of violent behaviours, and problematic substance use and addictive
Developing Personal Healthier Eating Habits
We are learning to identify personal eating habits and set a goal for developing healthier eating habits using Canada’s Food Guide.
Assessing Dangerous Situations
We are learning to use critical thinking skills to identify situations that could lead to injury or death and describe behaviours that can help reduce risk including using coping skills to respond to
The Dangers of Substance Use
We are learning about the warning signs of problematic substance use and related behaviours and make connections to the consequences that can occur. We are learning to think critically to assess