PARC Workbook for Influencing Physical Activity Policy
This workbook is for anyone venturing to create a physical activity policy within their community, school or workplace. It is suitable for all levels of experience or comfort with policy development....
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PlaySport
PlaySport is a website that provides teachers, camp counsellors, and coaches the opportunity to search for games and activities based on the skills wishing to be taught, the complexity of the game, and the equipment or space available....
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Canada’s Report Card on Physical Activity for Children & Youth 2008
The physical activity levels of Canada’s young people have received an overall grade of D. The Report Card gives a comprehensive overview of the issues, highlighting screen time as one of the key culprits, and provides recommendations to bring about ...
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CyberCops
CyberCops is an educational, computer-based program that teaches students in Grades 7 & 8 about the risks and safety issues associated with Internet use....
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Helping Teens to Make Better Decisions about Sex and Relationships
This free, online resource has been created for use by Grade 9 Health and Physical Education teachers. It includes detailed lesson plans, student handouts, visual aids, student-centered activities, evaluation tools, a video, overheads and much more....
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65 Energy Blasts
Led by Judy Howard, the 65 Energy Blasts DVD allows you to play a one minute fifteen second 'Blast'....or play 65 in a row! With a total of four themes, each theme contains fun hip-hop dance moves that your students can easily learn....
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Kids Into Action
These Kids Into Action CDs will guide your students through physically active routines that are fun and easy to learn. Each of the three age appropriate CDs has six 10-minute routines that also include warm up, stretching and cool down sessions....
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Chicken and Noodle Games
Your students will be excited to get active by playing games that include rubber chickens, pool noodles, tennis balls, sponges, and much more!...
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‘Catch a Wave Brain’ Fitness Fun
Have your students ‘Catch a Brain Wave’ during Daily Physical Activity. This CD of songs will get your students physically active everyday to build healthier bodies and stimulate brain development....
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Walk This Way
Take the first step and be a role model in your school community. October is International Walk to School Month. If you are thinking of becoming more physically active, starting a walking regime with Walk This Way is easy & fun!...
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MenuofChoices.ca
MenuofChoices.ca is Ophea's new online resource designed to provide the latest quality information and supports to understand, plan and address healthy eating key messages in the school communities....
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SafeKidsCanada.ca
Safe Kids Canada is committed to reducing unintentional injury, which is the leading cause of death for children and youth in Canada. This bilingual website offers practical and proven advice to keep kids safe....
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Canada’s Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth - 2007
This annual Report Card provides knowledge and insight to help build better programs and policies, while measuring improvement from year to year. It also provides 3 Recommendations for Action to inform Canadians on how they can help improve the grade...
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www.eworkshop.on.ca/dpa
This new website, developed to support Daily Physical Activity (DPA), includes free resources, information about safety, inclusion and scheduling, and printable and video activities that demonstrate how to implement DPA...
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Healthy Active Living
The HAL resource helps students pursue a healthy, active lifestyle. It includes strategies for preparing a personal fitness plan, resolving conflict, dealing with issues surrounding sexuality, drugs and nutrition, and participating in activities and ...
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Always Changing & Vibrant Faces
Always Changing and Vibrant Faces are school-based resources designed to teach pre-teens about the transition between childhood and adolescence and the beginning stages of puberty, and to address issues such as self-esteem and body image. They empowe...
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JiggaJump
Featuring Juno award-winning children’s entertainers, Judy & David, JiggaJump uses music to engage young children in a range of physical activity and movement experiences to help plant the seeds for a lifetime of healthy, active living....
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Take Action in Secondary Schools
The newest component of Ophea’s Take Action initiative, this reference guide assists school communities – including educators, administrators, public health professionals, parents and police – in understanding and addressing substance use among secon...
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CyberCops
CyberCops: Air Dogs is an educational, computer-based program that teaches students about the risks and safety issues associated with Internet use. Based on a real case involving a young student, it deals with three types of Internet crime: credit ca...
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A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education
If you teach physical education at the middle or high school level, you know that holding students’ interest can be a challenge. Teens don’t want to repeat the same old games they’ve been playing since grade school. What if you could introduce new ac...
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Celebration Games
Celebration Games provides a year’s worth of fun physical fitness activities, skills, games, and rhythm and dance activities, each based on a specific holiday or seasonal theme. Great for DPA ideas that can be completed school-wide or in the classroo...
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Reality PE
Reality PE. The 60 Minute Edge is a six minute DVD and supportive material for parents of students in Grade 8 and 9. The DVD demonstrates the importance of physical activity at the secondary level and challenges the status quo of only one mandatory H...
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Catch the Spirit - Canada Games Day Kit
The Canada Games Day Kit helps schools and youth organizations host an event that offers young people, ages 4 to 14, a sport and educational experience that mirrors the excitement of the Canada Games. Canada Games Days also offer young people an oppo...
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Physical Education Assessment Toolkit
In today’s physical education framework, the demands on your time and energy are great, so you need an efficient method of assessment that can plug into any lesson or unit being taught. This book and CD-ROM package contains the ready-made materials n...
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Swim to Survive
In Canada’s water-rich environment, minimum swimming ability is a required life skill for survival. The Swim to Survive program, developed by The Lifesaving Society, defines the minimum swim skills needed to survive an unexpected fall into deep water...
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Safety Guidelines
The Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines (Safety Guidelines) represent the minimum standards for risk management practice for schools boards. They focus the attention of teachers, intramural supervisors and coaches onto safe practices, in ev...
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Canadian Active Living Fitness Circuit Charts
More than ever, teachers are faced with the challenge of providing students of all ages and abilities with daily physical activity sessions that are safe and fun. Now, the challenge just got easier with the new Canadian Active Living Fitness Circuit ...
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Cyber Cops - Mirror Image
A computer-based program that addresses the risks associated with internet use, CyberCops helps students acquire the skills needed to recognize and respond to situations that threaten their personal safety and well-being. Mirror Image, for Grade 7, i...
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DPA Teacher Resource Guides, Grades 1-8
The Ontario government has been working in partnership with Ophea to develop a variety of resources to help support teachers in the Implementation of Daily Physical Activity (DPA). These resources are available for download as PDF files on the Min...
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Take Action (4-6)
A new addition to the Take Action initiative! This exciting new resource, targets Grades 4-6, and is designed to teach students about tobacco, alcohol and substance use and abuse prevention. It is easy to implement, simple to follow and fun for the ...
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Winter Active
This winter, discover free outdoor and indoor activities that teachers can do with their students. The School Winter Active Kit is an electronic resource that is full of free fun activities to help schools get their students to be active during th...
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The Lifestyle Journey Program
A fictional story of three friends and how they deal with issues such as making healthy choices, body image, nutrition, dieting and peer pressure. It provides young people with "back-to-basics" information and hands-on tools concerning nutrition and...
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Step Lively 1 - Dances for Schools and Families
Step Lively is a lively collection of tunes and dances from traditions such as folk dancing, square dancing, contra dancing, and singing games. All are suitable for classroom instruction (K-12) and are designed for use by non-professional dance leade...
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Inclusive Physical Activity - A lifetime of Opportunities
Are you looking for ways to improve the health and physical education experience for all students? Inclusive Physical Activity- A Lifetime of Opportunities provides excellent ideas for creating a quality physical education program that’s relevant ...
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Suppertime Survival
Looking for ideas on meal planning, reading food labels, dealing with picky eaters, healthy weights for children and teens & nutrition for young sports enthusiasts? Suppertime Survival provides a healthy eating guide and cookbook for time-strapped...
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Playground Leadership Program
Concerned about inactivity, aggressive behavior, and unnecessary injuries in the playground? Through the Playground Leadership Program, Youth Playground Leaders develop skills and practice techniques to resolve conflicts and create a playground envir...
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Think Literacy Cross Curricular Approaches
Think Literacy for H&PE provides physical educators with strategies and resources to develop reading, writing and communication skills in H&PE. This resource provides 23 strategies with grade specific templates, teacher resources and student resource...
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Active Minds Active Bodies
Active Minds Active Bodies is an annotated list of books that contain positive physical activity messages. It is designed to encourage children and youth to read and to have fun while being physically active....
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Bang For Your Buck
Bang For Your Buck features 100 games that use inexpensive equipment from dollar stores such as interlocking foam squares, playing cards, bracelets, stuffed animals, sponges, scarves, and clothes pins. Photographs add clarity to the easy-to-use instr...
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Menu of Choices
Menu of Choices is a secondary school resource that encourages the entire school community to take a proactive approach to addressing the healthy eating behaviours of children and youth....
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The Bully, The Bullied, and The Bystander
It’s the deadliest combination going: bullies who get what they want from their target, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, and bystanders who either watch, participate, or look away....
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Teacher’s Guide to Physical Education Grades 7 & 8
With 72 skill descriptors and illustrations, this resource assists in the teaching, learning and assessment of movement skills. It also supports teachers in determining which skills are essential and which ones are additional according to the Ontario...
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Oodles of Noodles
A new resource from CIRA Ontario, "Oodles of Noodles" features fifty great games using various sized pool noodles. It includes warm-ups, team games, tasks & challenges, tag games, noodle and ball games, and cooperative games....
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Playsport
PlaySport is a website that helps kids, ages 6 to 12, develop an understanding and competency of the skills and strategies associated with playing sports. PlaySport provides activities that are fun and adaptable to every skill level and prepares ki...
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Everyone Jump
Everyone Jump is a fun, interactive music CD and learning guide for grades 4 to 6. This cross-curricular resource raises awareness of the importance of regular physical activity and healthy nutrition in preventing type 2 diabetes....
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Kids Asthma Basics
The Asthma Society of Canada has developed a series of free booklets entitled the Asthma Basics Booklet Series. These booklets provide Canadians with a basic approach to asthma management in an easy-to-understand format. The Asthma Basics Booklet Se...
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Coach Reflections - A Self-Reflection Resource for all Coaches of Children.
This interactive workbook will help you improve your coaching skills by providing you with self-reflection tools as well as tips on: motivating your kids, communication, dealing with parents, coaching your own children - and much more!...
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Reebok NFL/CFL Flag Football
Every spring, more than 1200 junior and middle schools register online for an official Reebok NFL/CFL Flag Football Kit. The kits are delivered in September and include all of the equipment and resources required to execute a flag football unit as p...
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A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education
Teachers know that holding students’ interest can be a challenge. This resource will help you introduce new activities that would renew your students’ interest, improve their self-esteem, and help them gain a better understanding of other cultures....
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Discover Healthy Eating
This curriculum support resource for Grades 1-8 offers a choice of teaching activities that correspond to the Health and Physical Education Curriculum (1998). Background information, glossary and a listing of additional resources are also included...
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After the Chalk Dust Settles
"At the end of each busy day, after the chalk dust settles, we all need to take time for ourselves." This workbook and journal is designed to help teachers reduce stress and achieve overall wellness. It’s filled with strategies to help teachers c...
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Snow Fun! - Favourite Canadian Winter Activities
In Canada, our winter wonderland of snow, ice and cold weather provide an opportunity for a variety of activities. Snow Fun! - Favourite Canadian Winter Activities is a collection of fun, winter physical activities that were gathered from teacher...
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FoodFocus
This Canadian nutrition analysis software provides an interactive tool for students to examine their nutritional health. The program helps students conduct and understand nutrition analysis, including grocery lists and recipes, and choose foods that ...
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Kids With Diabetes in Your Care
This kit contains general information about diabetes and how to recognize when a student may be experiencing a low blood glucose (sugar) level, offers a diabetes checklist for teachers and parents, and describes 'duty of care' for school empl...
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Children on the Move
Introduces the ABCs of active living and helps to educate children in primary grades on how easy living an active healthy lifestyle can be....
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Fit Kids Classroom Workout
This video is meant to invigorate and motivate students during their daily routines or to warm them up in preparation for physical activity. The video also teaches students that working out everyday can help them feel good about themselves and shows ...
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Teaching Children Physical Education - Becoming a Master Teacher
Using your summer vacation to get new ideas and learn new teaching skills? Consider this resource to help spruce up your classes!...
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activ8
activ8 is a curriculum-based physical activity challenge program developed by curriculum and child development experts....
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Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum Support
The Kindergarten to Grade 8 support documents include about 30 health lessons and 100 physical education lessons per grade. Each lesson is based on H&PE curriculum expectations and is complete with suggestions for assessment, and hands-on support mat...
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Cultural Adaptations of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
The Nutrition Resource Centre (NRC) has recently developed seven different Cultural Adaptations of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating. The adaptations are available for use with the Chinese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi, and Spanis...
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Snow Fun! - Favourite Canadian Winter Activities
This resource is a collection of fun, winter physical activities that were gathered from teachers and students across Canada. It includes a variety of activities such as scavenger, cooperative - team building, relay, targeting, tag games, carnival a...
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Awesome Asphalt Activities
Need to make the asphalt play areas and sidewalks in your area more fun for kids? Try some of the suggestions in this handy resource!
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On the Move
On the Move is an innovative programming concept to help service providers increase girls’ and young women’s participation in sport and physical activity. Based on the experiences of On the Move programs across Canada, the user-friendly On the Move ...
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