Active Living: Fitness for Elementary Schools is introduces elementary teachers (physical education specialists and "generalist" teachers alike) to a unique and creative way of helping their students learn about the benefits of healthy active living.

Teachers will learn how to teach the basics of personal fitness, and thereby foster personal confidence and a strong sense of body awareness among their students.

This teacher resource is recommended reading for teachers from Kindergarten through Grade 9 who are looking for new ways to teach the principles of healthy active living, engage their students, and keep them active for life.

COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL LEARNING KIT

The learning kit includes the teacher resource book and 40 heavy-duty, laminated charts, plus the accompanying free teacher support on-line (differentiated instruction ideas, video representations, classroom handouts).

Having mastered the safety tips and instructional guidelines in resource book, teachers can then use the additional resources in the classroom, gym or hallway to educate their students about healthy living and the principles of physical fitness while at the same time customizing cardiorespiratory, speed, agility, balance, and resistance routines to suit their students' current fitness level.

The full learning kit will make it easy for elementary school teachers not only to teach functional fitness theory and the importance of healthy active living to their students, but to deliver Daily Physical Activity (DPA) and Fitness Blasts that are safe, fun, and personalized to meet the needs of all students.

Building upon the Long Term Athlete/Participant Development (LTA/PD) program developed by Canadian Sport for Life, this new physical literacy program:

• Supports the health and physical education (physical literacy) curriculum across the country

• Shows teachers creative ways to teach their students the principles of physical literacy and personal fitness

• Addresses "Movement Competence and Active Living" curriculum expectations

• Focuses on teaching fundamental movement skills and on building movement competency among students

• Integrates with Daily Physical Activity (DPA) initiatives in schools across the country

Board-wide Purchases: School boards making bulk purchases of this Learning Kit will be eligible for a board-wide teacher in-service to ensure successful implementation of a physical literacy program in schools across their districts.

Examination copies are not available for the full Learning Kit.

Click here to watch a CBC news story about physical education classes being taught in Atlantic Canada. Author Jenny Kierstead was interviewed for the story.

Series Developer

Ted Temertzoglou

TEACHER IN-SERVICE

Physical Literacy Implementation Program - Board-Wide In-Service

School boards making bulk purchases of Learning Kits may be eligible for board-wide teacher in-service to ensure successful implementation of a physical literacy program in schools across their districts.