Daily Physical Activity

Daily Physical Activity Support Materials

British Columbia

ActNow BC has a wealth of material on fitness and healthy living in B.C. 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.

The BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres portal has program descriptions as well as contact information and links to Aboriginal Friendship Centres across B.C.

The British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association website has information on the Association’s many active living programs and facilities.

The YMCA/YWCAs in British Columbia website includes links to all of the Y’s locations in B.C. including links to the various branch websites.

Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada website has many daily physical activity resources including guides for teachers, families, and kids, magazines, sticker charts and more. A sampling of these resources is linked below:

Health Canada’s website is a good source of information on healthy eating and weight standards for children and adolescents. 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 website includes fitness games and activity ideas within the "members only" area of the site.
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.
(source: Thunder Bay District Health Unit):