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

Think Literacy 11 & 12

Healthy Active Living PPL3 4 

Healthy Active Living PPL3 4

Recreation and Fitness Leader 

Recreation and Fitness Leader

Think Literacy  (2mb)

Elementary Exemplars

Secondary Exemplars

Grade 12 Subject Specific Training

Grade 12 Text Book

H&PE Update Newsletters

07-08 Newsletters

September 2007

November 2007

February 2008

Elementary Exemplars

• Elementary Health and Physical Education exemplars that were field-tested last spring have been revised and were administered in schools this spring.
• The student results were scored in the summer and the exemplars will be produced next year by the Ministry of Education.
• There will be video exemplars for grades 3, 5 and 7 showing physical education and written exemplars for healthy living at grades 2, 4, 6 and 8. The Grade 1 exemplar is an Active Participation/Healthy Living activity. The exemplars will show examples of level 1, 2, 3 and 4 student work at all grade levels.

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Secondary Exemplars 

• Senior exemplars tasks and rubrics that were developed by writers in the summer were field-tested in November.
• They were revised from January to March based on feedback from the field.
• Final administration of the tasks happened in May. Some samples were collected. The tasks will be re-administered in the fall to collect more samples.

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Grade 12 Subject Specific Training

Ministry of Education training was provided for one full day in Spring 2002 and Fall 2002. Board representatives received training and information to provide a half-day workshop in their own board.

The following materials from the Grade 12 Subject Specific Training Workshop are available for download:

 participant handout
 presenter handout 

This workshop material was designed by educators to help teachers implement the new Ontario Secondary School Curriculum and reflects current Ministry of Education Curriculum, Assessment and Evaluation Policy. Specific examples, sample Course Profile materials, and any reference to particular commercial resources, learning materials, equipment, or technology reflect only the opinions of the developers of the workshop and Course Profile writers, and do not reflect any official endorsement by the Ministry of Education. Permission is given to reproduce and adapt these materials for any purpose except profit.

© Queen's Printer for Ontario 2002

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Grade 12 Text Book and Workbook now available..

Ophea, in collaboration with Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc., is pleased to announce the release of Exercise Science: An Introduction to Health and Physical Education, a textbook and workbook that offers grade 12 students a unique blend of anatomy and physiology with the social and historical aspects of Canadian sport.
Included on the Trillium List for approved texts and workbooks and developed specifically for the new Grade 12 exercise science curriculum, Exercise Science features full Canadian content authored by the creators of the support materials for the PSE4U curriculum.
Other features of Exercise Science include:
Full-colour anatomical illustrations
Photographs of Canadian athletes, past and present
Informative "interest" boxes on current sporting events and controversies
Key concepts in each section with a comprehensive glossary of terms
Extensive teacher’s support materials that integrate closely with the textbook and workbook (Curriculum Guidelines, Teacher’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, Lesson Plans)
For more information on Exercise Science, visit
http://www.thompsonbooks.com/hpe

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