Resources and Materials

Ophea has revised a number of pages within the H&PE Documents. Download these revisions.

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• Ontario H&PE Curriculum Support: K-10
• Ophea H&PE Binder Quick Reference Charts

Additional Resources

• Elementary Time Allotment for Health and Physical Education
• Literature Lists
• H&PE Assessment Resource
• Black Line Masters for students available in French

The Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum Support Resources: Kindergarten to Grade 10

Ophea in partnership with many organizations and school boards has developed a series of grade-by-grade curriculum support resources, Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum Support: Kindergarten to Grade 10. If you are associated with a district school board, contact your board office and speak with an appropriate representative. Otherwise, you can purchase these support documents at a sale price of $40 per grade plus applicable taxes and shipping/handling. For more details, go to the Register/Order page.

The following document samples are available for download:

• Kindergarten Sample
• Grade 1 Sample
• Grade 6 Sample
• Grade 8 Sample
• Grade 9 Health Sample
• Grade 9-10 Activity Sample

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Ophea H&PE Binder Quick Reference Charts

Grade-by-grade Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference lists are now available. These lists outline topics covered and information included in each Ophea H&PE Binder.

The following materials are available for download:

• Documents At a Glance
• Kindergarten to Grade 8 Flow Chart
• Grade 9-12 Modules at a Glance
• Kindergarten Appendix Reference
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 1
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 2
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 3
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 4
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 5
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 6
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 7
• Unit/Sub-task/Appendices Quick Reference Grade 8
• Ophea Quick Reference Grade 9 & 10
• Ophea Quick Reference Grade 10
• Ophea Quick Reference Grade 11
• Ophea Quick Reference Grade 12
  
  

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Quality H&PE Programs

Download material shared with teachers administering the Elementary Health and Physical Education Exemplars. This document can be used to help reinforce the key components of a quality program and can be used as the basis for discussion about quality H&PE programs. A suggested activity for working with these concepts is included.

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Elementary Time Allotment for Health and Physical Education

Here is a detailed example of how the Thames Valley District School Board has allocated time to include 180 minutes of physical education and dance and 40 minutes of health per week.

Download the Thames Valley District School Board Elementary Time Allocation Guidelines (Note: This is a very large document which may require several minutes to download).

This information was developed by the Thames Valley District School Board.We wish to thank them for sharing this information to assist others in planning to increase time allotments for health and physical education. Anyone wishing to reference this material, should reference the Thames Valley District School Board.

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Literature Lists

A list of books that can be used to reinforce health topics while focussing on literacy is available for download:

Reinforcing health topics literature list

This list of books was compiled as part of a Masters Thesis entitled "A Literature Based Approach to Health Education- Developing Resiliency Skills through Literature" by Myra Stephen. The books are all Canadian, were published from 1990 onward and were selected based on how they could be used as examples of resilency skills with students. Links were made to the healthy living curriculum expectations and to the language curriculum expectations. The codes refer to curriculum expectation. The list of codes for the curriculum expectations is available from: http://www.ocup.org/units/checksheets.php

See the article "Developing Resiliency Skills through Literature" in the articles section.

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H&PE High School Credits

Download a simple two page Summary of High School Health and Physical Education Course Options. Share this summary with guidance counselors in your school to help share information about the seven possible H&PE credits that students can take in high school.

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H&PE Assessment Resource

Check out the assessment and evaluation resources for health and physical education available from Database Directions. To view the elementary resource Getting Assessment Right, click here: www.databdirect.com/orderintrocanelem.htm. To view the secondary resource Plan, Assess, Report, click here: www.databdirect.com/orderintrocansecond.htm .

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