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Health and Physical Education

How to Use These Resources

TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

The health and physical education program for Grade 2 focuses on the
foundational knowledge and skills that students will need in order to support mental health and well-being, develop physical and health literacy, and acquire the commitment and capacity to lead healthy, active lives. Through participating in health and physical education in the classroom and gymnasium, out of doors, in schoolyards and school gardens, and in the community, students learn to make healthy active living a part of everyday life.

The expectations for health and physical education are organized into four distinct but related strands:

  • Social-Emotional Learning Skills
  • Active Living
  • Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, and Strategies
  • Healthy Living

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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities
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Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.

 

  • Create a list of all the different ways you could be active in a day. What kinds of activities might you do during a normal school day to be active?
  • Think about how you feel when you are active. How might you describe what your body is doing or feeling?

  • Imagine you are going to start a physical activity of your choice. What goal might you set in order to improve at this activity? What will help you achieve this goal?

  • Design a safe and inclusive game for children to play that uses beanbag, a pylon, and a plastic hoop. How did you make this game safe for all participants? How did you make sure that students of all abilities could participate?

  • With a partner, or on your own play a piece of music from the internet, tv or radio. Each time a new song begins move a different way to the music. How many different ways can you move your body parts?
  • Eating breakfast every day and eating healthy meals and snacks throughout the day can help you learn. Create a list of healthy foods that could support your learning during the day.

  • Count how many different ways can you stop a ball without using your hands.

  • What are some things you should do to stay safe when you are at home, outside, or riding on the school bus?

  • People show that they are feeling worried or uncomfortable in different ways. How does your body work when you are feeling worried or uncomfortable? How might you treat others who are also feeling this way ?
  • Create a comic strip that explains how your body changes as you grow.
  • Describe what actions you might take when standing up for yourself or showing respects for others.
  • When you are sick you might need to take medications. What types of medications help you feel better when you are ill?

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

belonging

body image

brain stress response system

bullying

cardiorespiratory

concussion

consent

cool down

emotions

empathy

exertion

environmental impact

feelings

physical activity

safety procedures

warm up and cool down

vigorous activity

balance

body parts

components

locomotor

resilience

respect

safety

send and receive

skills

static positions

tactics

allergies and reactions

Canada's Food Guide

feelings

help seeking behaviour

human development

legal/illegal substances

nutritional value

oral health

personal safety

prescription and non-prescription medicins

processed food

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