Physical and Health Ed

Physical and Health Education 6 & 7

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Big Ideas

Daily participation in different types of physical activity influences our physical literacy and personal health and fitness goals. Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others. Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
Curricular Competency

 
 
Content
We will be investigating the following content this year:

We are working on developing the following areas:

Physical literacy

  • Develop, refine, and apply fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments
  • Develop and apply a variety of movement concepts and strategies in different physical activities
  • Apply methods of monitoring and adjusting exertion levels in physical activity
  • Develop and demonstrate safety, fair play, and leadership in physical activities
  • Identify and describe preferred types of physical activity

Healthy and active living

  • Participate daily in physical activity designed to enhance and maintain health components of fitness
  • Describe how students’ participation in physical activities at school, at home, and in the community can influence their health and fitness
  • Investigate and analyze influences on eating habits
  • Identify factors that influence healthy choices and explain their potential health effects
  • Assess and communicate health information for various health issues
  • Identify and apply strategies to pursue personal healthy-living goals
  • Reflect on outcomes of personal healthy-living goals and assess strategies used

Social and community health

  • Identify and describe strategies for avoiding and/or responding to potentially unsafe, abusive, or exploitive situations
  • Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying
  • Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining healthy relationships
  • Explore strategies for promoting the health and well-being of the school and community

Mental well-being

  • Describe and assess strategies for promoting mental well-being, for self and others
  • Describe and assess strategies for managing problems related to mental well-being and substance use, for others
  • Explore and describe strategies for managing physical, emotional, and social changes during puberty and adolescence
    Explore and describe how personal identities adapt and change in different settings and situations
  • Create and assess strategies for managing physical, emotional, and social changes during puberty and adolescence
  • Explore the impact of transition and change on identities
  • proper technique for fundamental movement skills, including non-locomotor, locomotor, and manipulative skills
  • movement concepts and strategies
  • ways to monitor and adjust physical exertion levels
  • how to participate in different types of physical activities, including individual and dual activitiesrhythmic activities, and games
  • training principles to enhance personal fitness levels, including the FITT principle and the SAID principle
  • influences on food choices
  • practices that reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and life-threatening communicable diseases
  • sources of health information
  • basic principles for responding to emergencies
  • strategies to protect themselves and others from potential abuse, exploitation, and harm in a variety of settings
  • consequences of bullying, stereotyping, and discrimination
  • strategies for managing personal and social risks related to psychoactive substances and potentially addictive behaviours
  • physicalemotional, and social changes that occur during puberty and adolescence
  • influences on individual identity, including sexual identity, gender, values, and beliefs

 

  • proper technique for fundamental movement skills, including non-locomotor, locomotor, and manipulative skills
  • movement concepts and strategies
  • ways to monitor and adjust physical exertion levels
  • how to participate in different types of physical activities, including individual and dual activities, rhythmic activities, and games
  • training principles to enhance personal fitness levels, including the FITT principle, SAID principle, and specificity
  • effects of different types of physical activity on the body
  • factors that influence personal eating choices
  • practices that reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and life-threatening communicable diseases
  • sources of health information
  • basic principles for responding to emergencies
  • strategies to protect themselves and others from potential abuse, exploitation, and harm in a variety of settings
  • consequences of bullying, stereotyping, and discrimination
  • signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
  • influences of physical, emotional, and social changes on identities and relationships