Triangle and One
Challenge your students to a PlaySport activity that will assist in the development of their tactical skills by learning to maintain and regain possession....
|
Are You Full of Beans?
Have you ever imagined using beans not just for food, but also as an inspiration for a physical activity? Get your students or campers to use their creativity and cooperation skills by participating in this fun activity. And if the weather is really ...
|
Bouncing Bubbles
Summer holidays are just around the corner, celebrate the beginning of summer by ‘Bouncing Bubbles’ with your students...
|
Kickout!
By taking a skill-theme approach to learning soccer, your students will learn the basics so that they will have the tools to participate. This activity is all about ball control....
|
Team Target
This activity will provide students the opportunity to work in teams by aiming at targets and getting physically active along the way....
|
Healthy Eating Door Decorating Challenge
March is Nutrition Month! Raise awareness about Healthy Eating in your school by getting every classroom involved in a Healthy Eating Door Decorating Challenge...
|
Stretch Wave
Working as a team to create the ‘wave’, this stretching activity is a great way to get students cooperating while involving them in leading a fun stretching session....
|
Spy Tag
This fun spy activity will get your ‘agents’ warmed up and ready for any activ8 challenge that comes their way....
|
Wacky Winter Circuit
Winter is just around the corner! Get your students wound up about upcoming ‘wacky’ weather with the Wacky Winter Circuit!...
|
Everyone Jump
This cross-curricular activity provides the opportunity for students to creatively respond to music through writing or drawing and perform a dance routine....
|
Walk About For All
Celebrate International Walk to School Month with Walk About For All! Get your students walking in a fun and creative way while implementing DPA....
|
Dog Catcher
Come rain or shine on a September day, this fun and dynamic game will keep your students active indoors or outside....
|
Chuck the Chicken
Take kids outside to enjoy the great summer weather. Working together, the young chicken chasers are guaranteed to have a lot of fun!...
|
Are You Full of Beans?
Get your students to apply their creativity and cooperation skills by participating in this fun exercise that uses beans as an inspiration....
|
Soccer Box Ball
Get students up, moving and kicking with Soccer Box Ball, a team activity that promotes cooperation....
|
Circuit Fun
Circuit training is a great way to get your students active and having fun, regardless of athletic ability. Circuit Fun is adapted from the Canadian Active Living Fitness Circuit Charts....
|
Free Dance - Broken Telephone
Relying on teamwork and concentration, this activity teaches students the basic tools required to help them move with a sense of freedom....
|
Math Match
This activity is a great way to get your students physically active while demonstrating their mathematics skills. Good partner work is also encouraged....
|
Gymnastics Activities for Everyone
Gymnastics activities are fun way to engage students in physical activity while teaching fundamental movement skills. Check out these great activity ideas!...
|
Take Action Secondary - Cross-Curricular Teaching Ideas
These creative activities can address substance use and abuse prevention among secondary students, not only within the Health and Physical Education Curriculum but within in a variety of subject areas....
|
Blanket Catch
Students learn to work cooperatively with this series of physical activity challenges using blankets and balls....
|
Code Word
Code Word encourages students to work together while being physically active. This is a great way to get students energized in a large space, gymnasium or multipurpose room....
|
Magical Islands
Get your students up and moving quickly with this fun, physical activity which can easily be adapted into a magical Halloween game. Taken from Ontario HPE Curriculum Support: Junior Appendix B....
|
Freeze It Quiz
Welcome students back to school with this fun activity to help them get to know each other, their teacher and their school, while being active....
|
Asteroids
Encourage your students to jump up and explode like Asteroids, in this fun physically active game. Great for outdoor or indoor play, sport or game time in recreation, camp or school settings...
|
Quick Critters
This is a fun tag game to play as part of summer activities at camp or during team practice warm-ups. It can be played in a large indoor space but is also a great way to get participants physically active outdoors....
|
Speed Frisbee Golf
A fun way to get students active outdoors as the weather heats up, students work in small groups to hit as many targets as quickly as they can....
|
Summer Card Run
Summer Card Run is a fun activity where students work in teams to complete various fitness challenges. Playing cards are used to identify the type of high/low activity and the number of repetitions....
|
Drive Safe
Students are given driving cues and perform an accompanying action. This activity can incorporate both moderate (e.g. speed limit = walking) and vigorous (bumpy road = skipping) sustained physical activity....
|
Comparing Nutrition Labels
Students learn the components necessary for making healthy eating decisions and apply that information to an individual plan with a variety of variables and factors....
|
DPA Idea - Ultimate Space
Ultimate Space is a fun group activity and an easy way to implement 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity. Adaptations can be made to accommodate a range of abilities and different facilities....
|
DPA - Winter Circuit
A fun way to integrate winter active ideas into indoor daily physical education, participants can use their imagination to pretend they are skiing down real mountain slopes or through local snowy trails....
|
DPA Idea - Space Mission
Space Mission is a fun activity for younger students and also a great opportunity for educators teaching Science & Technology to introduce a lesson and get students activated to learn. ...
|
DPA Idea - Mission Possible
Mission Possible is a great way to implement 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity outdoors or it can be adapted for multi-purpose rooms or gymnasiums. Students are given task cards with a list of challenges that they must complete as quickly as poss...
|
DPA Idea - Corner Warm-Up
Corner Warm-Up is a great way to incorporate 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity during instructional time. It’s ideal for generalist teachers looking for an easy way to implement fun, safe activities in the classroom....
|
The Name Game
This back-to-school icebreaker is a fun and interactive way for teachers and students to get know each other while being physically active. ...
|
Who Started the Motion
This fun guessing game allows participants the opportunity to be a leader, a team player and to be physically active. Students follow the leader in a series of movements and the ‘guesser’ has to guess who the leader is. ...
|
Fitness Circuit
Ideal for summer sport practices, Fitness Circuit includes fitness task stations that provide an effective and fun way for participants to warm up with a variety of physical activities....
|
Keep It Clean
Students work to ‘clean up’ by getting the greatest number of objects for their team. Taken from H&PE Curriculum Support: Primary Appendix B....
|
Around It Goes
Sitting in a circle, students identify stretches for different parts of the body. Taken from H&PE Curriculum Support (Ophea Binders): Grade 1, Unit 7, Sub-task #5...
|
Robin’s Nest
A fast moving game, students sprint to collect three balls (eggs) for their group’s hoop (nest)....
|
Nutrition in the Media
Students analyze the credibility, risks and benefits of advertised nutritional products or diets....
|
Heart Health Run
Students play a tag game that identifies and emphasizes risk factors for heart disease. From the Ontario H&PE Curriculum Support Documents: Intermediate, Appendix B....
|
Be Aware of What’s in There!
Students develop an awareness campaign and an interactive bulletin board to raise awareness of the harmful substances found in tobacco and the harmful effects of smoking. From Lungs Are For Life, Grade 4....
|
Ice Cube Tag
Students are divided into ‘Ice Cubes’, ‘Melters’ and ‘Runners’. Ice Cubes tag Runners and Runners are frozen until a Melter saves them, allowing them to rejoin the game. Taken from HPE Curriculum Support....
|
Classifying Prescription and Non-Prescription Medicines
Students define and identify prescription and non-prescription medicines. Use this activity to introduce students to substance use issues. Taken from Take Action (1-3)....
|
Spotless
A game of teamwork, ‘Cleaning Teams’ strategically collect balls while the ‘Leader’ re-disperses them. Taken from PlaySport....
|
"Fit!" Game
Students review the components of physical fitness and demonstrate each component with a different activity. Taken from Everyone Jump....
|
Snake Stomp
In partners, one student will hold rope at one end and move it like a snake, on the floor. The other student will try to jump on the rope. Switch roles frequently. Taken from the Ontario H&PE Curriculum Support Grade 1 Unit 6 Sub-task #6....
|
Bear Tag
A tag game with a northern twist! Two or three students are "it". Other students speed walk around the area and when caught, do a ‘bear walk’ on all fours, find another bear, shake paws, then re-join the game. Taken from the Ontario H&PE Curriculum...
|
Ultimate Chicken
A basic catching, throwing and running game. The object is to pass the rubber chicken among team members and move down the playing field/area. Taken from Ophea’s Go Girls! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds program....
|
Action Spelling
Students spell vocabulary words out loud as a class and do actions each time they say a vowel. Taken from Ontario HPE Curriculum Support: Grade 4, Unit 10, Sub-task #2....
|
Fitness Eggs
Try this variation of an Easter Egg Hunt in your school yard. Taken from H&PE Curriculum Support: Appendix B...
|
Patterns
Challenge your students’ observation and coordination skills. Taken from the Grade 5, Ontario H&PE Curriculum Support documents. ...
|
Happy Hearts
Teach kindergarten kids how fun, continuous movement helps build a healthy, happy heart. Taken from activ8 (Kindergarten)....
|
Understanding Tobacco Marketing Strategies Lesson
Help students understand how tobacco companies use marketing strategies to sell their products. Taken from Lungs Are For Life Grade 9-12....
|
Complementary Freeze
Students move and freeze on a signal. Each time students freeze, challenge them to freeze in a shape that complements one other person....
|
Healthy and Harmful Definition and Sorting Game
Help your class to identify healthy and harmful things with this simple brainstorm and sorting game.
Don't forget, Drug Awareness Week is November 17th - 21st. This is a great opportunity to introduce the "Healthy versus Harmful" activity idea to...
|
Active Haunted House
Kids love to walk through a haunted house during the Halloween season. Add to the fun by setting up a haunted house that includes physical activity....
|
Classroom Fitness Tasks
Limited space? Try these simple fitness task ideas that can be
performed in the classroom....
|
Loopy
Check out this great idea for a vigorous activity you can do in the
classroom!...
|
In the Pool (in the water or on land!]
When it's Hot! Hot! Hot! why not play some pool games to cool kids down while keeping the activity level high?...
|
Active Learning
This game will reinforce nutrional guidelines at the same time as providing physical activity for kids....
|
Alphabet Soup
Why not motivate kids to get more enthusiastic about spelling by making it active and creative? Have an action-packed Spelling Bee!...
|
April Rain
Too grey and wet to go outside? Get your kids active indoors with this perfect exercise for a rainy spring day!...
|
Fruit Salad
This activity combines physical activity with a brief introduction to the value of nutritios snacks....
|
Jump and Stick
A Grade 1 Challenge from The Foundation for Active Healthy Kids activ8 Program where students act out a story....
|
Couch Potato
A game for any age group, suitable to be played in a classroom....
|
Pylon Strike
A game for grade four students using pylons and soft balls....
|
Trier
A game for kindergarten to grade two, using dried beans....
|
Team Tag
A team game that requires only coloured tag markers to play....
|
Seven
This is a handball game for students in kindergarten to grade one, in which they play on their own to try and "beat" the wall....
|
Ringer
A small group game that uses a rubber ring and a ball....
|
Kotaut Mina Mieta
A game for small groups using beanbags and a long skipping rope. Suitable for kindergarten and grade one....
|
Following Me Across
A whole body movement game that can be played in a classroom or hallway without special equipment....
|
Hoops
A game for children in kindergarten and grade one, using hula hoops and beanbags....
|
Goblin, Ghost and Ghoul
A non-contact game that uses a hula hoop and beanbags....
|
Non-Elimination Simon Says
A new version of Simon Says that emphasizes fitness moves and keeps everyone involved. No special equipment required....
|
Elvis Tag
A variation on tag, that gets the hips moving. Requires no special equipment....
|
Bird Tag
A tag game using a rubber chicken....
|
Acorn Football
An active outdoor game for large numbers of children....
|
Scatter Dance
Children learn a generic dance which can be done in different formations....
|
Dances Even I Would Do
Detailed instructions for teaching two different dances....
|
Daily Vigorous Physical Activity - Fitness Circuit
Classroom fitness circuit requiring no special equipment....
|
Dental Health Activity Sheets Provided by The Canadian Dental Assocation
Fun activity sheets from the Canadian Dental Association that can be printed and used with elementary students:...
|
Rule Modification
This lesson introduces the concept of rule modification to allow students with mental disabilities to participate in school sporting events....
|
Hoola Hoop Aerobics
An activity for grade 7 & 8 students....
|
How to Run a Swim Meet Without Water
An activity for when there is no pool or it has to be closed....
|
Soccer Golf
Activity for grade 2 and above using pylons and a soccer ball....
|
Alcohol Impairment Simulation
This activity for secondary students is designed to facilitate the discussion of alcohol impairment....
|
Heart Month PlaySkills - Fun!
Activity pages from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario's Heart Healthy Kids Toolkit for grades 1- 3....
|
Don't Forget Your Running Shoes!
A suggestion for helping younger children remember their running shoes for physical education class....
|
Star Wars
Describes a games suitable for grades 1- 8 using foam frisbees, pylons and hula hoops, with the curriculum expectations it meets for each grade....
|
Trick or Treat
An activity using beanbags with a Hallowe'en theme....
|
