Physical Education
Appendix B: Learning Resources (Part I)

General Description: Twenty-five-minute video introduces the fundamental skills of archery. Interspersed between skill sections is general information pertaining to archery as a lifelong activity.
Caution: There is a short hunting sequence.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement
Grade Level: 5-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Visual Education Centre Ltd.
41 Horner Avenue, Unit 3
Etobicoke, ON
M8Z 4X4
Tel: (416) 252-5907
Fax: (416) 251-3720

General Description: Book provides a variety of teacher, student, and peer assessment, evaluation and observation checklists, and data collection sheets. Useful for classroom teachers as well as specialists.
Caution: Some visuals depict bike riders without helmets.
Audience: General
ESL - useful tool for language acquisition and development of positive attitudes
Gifted - open-ended activities
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

School District No. 71, Physical Education Association
c/o Glacier View Elementary School
241 Becher Drive
Courtenay, BC
V9N 3Y4
Tel: (604) 338-1425
Fax: (604) 334-4837

General Description: Program Leader's Resource Kit and 34-minute video are designed to teach basic safety boating drills while developing a spirit of co-operation and a positive attitude towards the safety of themselves and others. The course can be covered in five weeks, using two-hour sessions. These sessions are also sub-divided into two one-hour sections. Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons are prepared to offer assistance to teachers delivering this program.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 4-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS)
26 Golden Gate Court
Scarborough, ON
M1P 3A5
Tel: 1-800-268-3579
Fax: (416) 293-2445

General Description: Three print components present the revised Canada Food Guide in its rainbow format.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Personal and Social Responsibilit y
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1993
Supplier:

Health and Welfare Canada Publications Unit
4th floor, Jeanne Mance Building, Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, ON
K1A 1B4
Tel: (613) 954-8865
Fax: (613) 990-7067

General Description: Seventeen-minute video and four programs in individual binders promote different themes related to participation in active living, each of which is aimed at a specific age group. Each program has three components: "Getting Started," "Doing," and "Thinking and Knowing."
Caution: In first two programs the use of helmets and life jackets for bonus points is not appropriate.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5639
Fax: (613) 748-5737

General Description: A beginner's bicycling course for young cyclists. The course constitutes one of the first levels of the Canadian Cycling Association's Can-Bike program of cycling education. This course teaches basic bicycle handling skills, basic traffic skills and basic safety maintenance requirements for safe and proper use of bicycles on two-lane, two-way roads.
Caution: This manual assumes an instructor level of knowledge.
Audience: General
Category:Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Movement
Grade Level: 5-8
Year Recommended: 1993
Supplier:

Canadian Cycling Association/Association cycliste canadien
1600 promenade James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5629
Fax: (613) 748-5692

General Description: "How-to" skipping handbook that addresses turning techniques, entering the ropes, jumping, and exiting. An instructor's section provides 20 sequential lessons and overviews for teaching skipping.
Caution: Safety concerns need to be addressed before students attempt certain skills.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 4-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

ATEC Marketing Limited
130 Longfield Crescent
Ancaster, ON
L9G 3N7
Tel: (905) 648-0178
Fax: (905) 648-7240

General Description: Bilingual booklet jointly developed by the RCMP, the Canadian Centre for Drug Free Sport, and sport medicine communities. Topics cover: what drugs are used, anabolic steroids, other drug concerns, recognition of a problem, prevention, and where to get help. Current statistics.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 5-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Sport Medicine Council of B. C.
3055 Westbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z3
Tel: (604) 822-3049
Fax: (604) 822-4600

General Description: Resource folder consists of nine photocopied articles which provide current statistics, facts, and general information on gender issues affecting females in physical activity and sport.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 4-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Promotion Plus
305 - 1367 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V6H 4A9
Tel: (604) 737-3075
Fax: (604) 738-7175

General Description: Four manuals and one pamphlet focussing on the concept that if programs are to successfully provide social interaction and mental and physical conditioning, participants need to respect the written and unwritten rules of games.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Coaching Association of Canada
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5624
Fax: (613) 748-5707

General Description: Book describes single rope and double-dutch activities in progressively difficult levels. Focus is on fun and fitness while developing rhythm, balance, coordination, and endurance. Special teaching tips and achievement certificates are included.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

ATEC Marketing Limited
130 Longfield Crescent
Ancaster, ON
L9G 3N7
Tel: (905) 648-0178
Fax: (905) 648-7240

General Description: Book provides 85 physical activities and games to help develop cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility. Lessons are divided according to warm-ups, quick activities and main activities. Teaching tips discuss age appropriateness, safety, instructions, cues, planning, etc.
Caution: Teachers need to address safety concerns for activities on page 43 (hoops scattered on the floor) and page 50 (towel sliding).
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Movement
Grade Level: K-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Human Kinetics Canada
Box 24040
1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: (519) 944-7774
Fax: (519) 944-7614

General Description: Binder with background information, activities and resources addressing issues of concern to girls and young women in sport and physical activity. Topics include: development of self-esteem, value of participation, goal setting, and motivation. Classroom activities are organized around these issues in two integrated modules.
Caution: Three worksheets feature small, incidental diagrams of bikers, skaters, and boarders with no safety gear (pages 12, 39, 53).
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

CAHPERD 1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5622
Fax: (613) 748-5737

General Description: Three components: a booklet addressing gender issues in physical education; ten checklist cards listing strategies for action to effect change; a pamphlet highlighting gender appropriate language. Focus is on creating a gender equitable learning environment.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

CAHPERD 1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5622
Fax: (613) 748-5737

General Description: Book provides career information in an interview-style personal profile with people employed in sports-related careers (such as soccer coach, health consultant, fitness club coordinator, sports nutritionist, kinesiologist, sports broadcaster). Includes planning activities to encourage further exploration by the reader. Concludes with an open-ended activity of assuming the role of an employer needing to identify which of two people to hire for a position based on the applicants' covering letters, resumes, and interviewer's notes.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 8-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Weigl Educational Publishers Ltd.
1902 - 11th Street SE
Calgary, AB
T2G 3G2
Tel: (403) 233-7747
Fax: (403) 233-7769

General Description: Handbook provides information on the policies and procedures regarding harassment in sport and related legal issues. Most relevant to sport organizations setting up policies. Guide does not focus specifically on physical education issues.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 10-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Promotion Plus
305 - 1367 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V6H 4A9
Tel: (604) 737-3075
Fax: (604) 738-7175

General Description: Booklet provides an alternative and creative approach to a special event. It is not an instructional book for swimming skills. It describes walking and running activities that mimic pool events on a floor area turned into "lanes." Activities are based on competitive swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, and sandcastle building.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5639
Fax: (613) 748-5737

General Description: Book describes 35 traditional and non-traditional games that encourage physical activity. Choices range from the simple to the highly complex. Background information is also included.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Movement
Grade Level: 4-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Human Kinetics Canada
Box 24040
1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: (519) 944-7774
Fax: (519) 944-7614

General Description: Video provides a look at how psychological stress and sports injuries are manifested in young children as a result of emphasizing winning at all costs. It gives teachers, coaches, and parents alternatives to promote fitness, fun, and good health practices through athletic participation.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 4-12
Year Recommended: 1990
Supplier:

B. C. Learning Connection Inc.
c/o Learning Resources Branch (Customer Service)
878 Viewfield Road
Victoria, BC
V9A 4V1
Tel: (604) 387-5331
Fax: (604) 387-1527

General Description: Twenty-five-minute video explores the history of lacrosse, its spiritual significance to First Nations, and their generosity in sharing lacrosse with white people. Interviews with modern lacrosse players and First Nations leaders are interwoven with archival footage.
Caution: Lack of female perspective within historical context; depicts First Nations women as passive spectators and perpetuates male "macho" image.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: 4-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)
775 Pacific Road, Unit 38
Oakville, ON
L6L 6M4
Tel: (905) 827-1155
Fax: (905) 827-1154

General Description: Macintosh software program gives the nutritional components of food items so individuals improve their diets by balancing food choices with energy expenditure and lifestyle. Information regarding personal eating habits and food choices is recorded and analyzed for strengths and weaknesses. Detailed information on diets is provided, and the user is alerted to possible health problems resulting from dietary choices. The user can create an on-going dietary journal.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living
Grade Level: 9-12
Year Recommended: 1992
Supplier:

PRS Group Inc.
P.O. Box 1419
1425 Bishop Street
Cambridge, ON
N1R 7G7
Tel: (519) 740-3751
Fax: (519) 623-3540

General Description: Nine distinct disability-specific resource modules provide information related to a particular disability, along with implications for the physical education setting. A tenth module presents a condensed version of the other nine. A seven-minute, open-captioned video presents examples of students with severe and multiple disabilities who have been successfully integrated into physical education classes.
Audience: LD - promotes inclusion
ID (Mild) - promotes inclusion
Blind/Visual Impairments - promotes inclusion
ID (Moderate to Severe/Profound) - promotes inclusion
Dependent Handicaps - promotes inclusion
Deaf or Hard of Hearing - promotes inclusion
Physical Disabilities - promotes inclusion
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Movement, Personal and Social Responsibility
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1994
Supplier:

Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, ON
K1B 5N4
Tel: (613) 748-5639
Fax: (613) 748-5737

General Description: Fifty-eight-minute colour documentary video showing how five people who are physically disabled have worked to overcome obstacles to excel in recreational and competitive sports. Participants describe how they have been handicapped only by the obstacles which have been put in their way by society. They discuss how they have made adaptations to their sport and to the environment in which the sports occur.
Audience: General
Physical Disabilities - awareness video on striving to potential
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living, Personal and Social Responsibility, Movement
Grade Level: 7-12
Year Recommended: 1994
Supplier:

B. C. Learning Connection Inc.
c/o Learning Resources Branch (Customer Service)
878 Viewfield Road
Victoria, BC
V9A 4V1
Tel: (604) 387-5331
Fax: (604) 387-1527

General Description: Handbook outlines a process to implement an "On the Move" initiative, which increases the participation of girls and women in physical activity and sport.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Active Living
Grade Level: 5-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:

Promotion Plus
305 - 1367 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V6H 4A9
Tel: (604) 737-3075
Fax: (604) 738-7175

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