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Program Guides
- Program Guide for Daily Physical Activity Kindergarten to Grade 12 (English)
[528 KB]
- Program Guide for Daily Physical Activity Kindergarten to Grade 12 (French) [210 KB]
- NEW DPA Grades 10-12 Student Information Flyer [32 KB]
Resources
British Columbia
Act Now BC has a wealth of material on fitness and healthy living in BC. There are links to publications, reports, program descriptions and websites.
Action Schools! BC is a best practices model designed to assist schools in creating individualized action plans to promote healthy living. The website and the Action Schools! BC program is a source of inspiration and practical resources including action ideas, program recommendations, success stories, downloadable resources and program information, and links to healthy living resources from British Columbia and across Canada.
BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres
The portal has program descriptions as well as contact information and links to Aboriginal Friendship Centres across BC.
British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association
The BC Recreation and Parks Association page has information on the Association’s many active living programs and facilities.
YMCA/YWCAs in British Columbia
This page links to all of the Y’s locations in BC and has links to the various branch websites.
Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada
The PHAC and PHAC Healthy Living Unit websites have many daily physical activity resources including guides for teachers, families, and kids, magazines, sticker charts…etc. A sampling of these resources is linked below:
Teacher Guide to Physical Activity for Youth (10-14) [1.54 MB]
Health Canada, Food and Nutrition
Weight Standards for Children and Adolescents
Health Canada’s website is a good source of information on obesity in adults and children. Please be aware that standard BMI tables are NOT designed to be used by children under 18 years of age.
The Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, and Dance
There are many fitness games and activity ideas within the "members only" area of this site.
School/District Daily Activity Calendars
(source: Thunder Bay District Health Unit)
Daily Activity calendars could be a good desktop publishing project for a language arts class to take on – for a single class, the entire school or even the district.
- For Elementary School Children [1.53 MB]
- For High School Students [1.43 MB]
DPA Scheduling Advice/Sample for Administrators
(source: The Canadian Teacher.com)
