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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...
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
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
Eating Healthy Anywhere
Youth Perspectives on Identifying and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom
On November 29, 2023, Ophea hosted a webinar in partnership with the Ontario Coalition for Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) ’s Draw the Line Campaign (#DTL16Days). Moderated by Ophea’s Curriculum Consultant Andrea Haefele (she/her), Youth Perspectives on Identifying and Responding to Gender-Based...
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
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
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