Physical Education K-7

Archery: On Target for Fun    (Video)

Twenty-five-minute video introduces the fundamental skills of archery. Interspersed between skill sections is general information pertaining to archery as a lifelong activity.

Cautions: There is a short hunting sequence.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: Visual Education Centre Ltd.

Assessing Attitudes in Physical Education: A Collection of Assessment Tools    (Print Materials)

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.

Cautions: Some visuals depict bike riders without helmets.

Audience:

General
ESL - useful tool for language acquisition and development of positive attitudes
Gifted - open-ended activities

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: School District No. 71, Physical Education Association

Because They're Young    (Video)

Video encourages adults to assist children in developing the skills, habits, and positive attitudes necessary to enjoy physical activity. It emphasizes that physical health encourages better social and emotional health, leading to better academic performance.

Audience:

General
ESL - appropriate for ESL class as it is directed completely to the teacher

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: B. C. Learning Connection Inc.

Bicycle Safety: Zone of Danger    (Video)

Thirteen-minute video introduces young cyclists to danger zones: hills, curves, parked vehicles, and intersections. A talking-bicycle narrator introduces the danger zone and viewers are shown the safe and correct responses. Bicycle care issues are also addressed.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility
Movement

Supplier: Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)

Boatwise    (Video)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS)

Can You Speak Dance?    (Multi-media)

Book provides teaching strategies, lesson ideas, and activities for dance in four parts: "Dance as Communication: Links to Integration," "Movement Content: The Vocabulary of Dance," "The Dance Process: Guiding the Learner," "Getting Ready to Teach." An accompanying video demonstrates sample lessons. Useful for teachers new to teaching dance.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: University of Victoria, Audio-Visual and TV Services

Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating (Revised)    (Print Materials)

Three print components present the revised Canada Food Guide in its rainbow format.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Health and Welfare Canada Publications Unit

The Canadian Active Living Challenge    (Print Materials)

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."

Cautions: In the first two programs the use of helmets and life jackets for bonus points is not appropriate.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)

Creative Dance Experiences for Children - Volumes 1 to 4    (Print - Series)

Four booklets and four accompanying audio cassettes combine to provide movement ideas, music, and stories for creative expression.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Can.-Ed. Media Ltd.

Cycle Right (Can-Bike Program) - Instructor's Guide    (Print Materials)

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.

Cautions: This manual assumes an instructor level of knowledge.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Canadian Cycling Association / Association cycliste canadien

Dance for Young Children: Finding the Magic in Movement    (Print Materials)

Book explores the challenge and excitement of creating physical movement for dance. It contains lesson plans, suggested themes for using dance movements, and guidance for classroom management.

Cautions: Language referring to First Nations person as "Indian" (page 136) not current practice.

Audience:

General
Physical Disabilities - strategies for inclusion
Blind/Visual Impairments - strategies for inclusion
Behaviour Disorders - strategies for inclusion

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: American Alliance for Health

Double Dutch Handbook    (Print Materials)

"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.

Cautions: Safety concerns need to be addressed before students attempt certain skills.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: ATEC Marketing Limited

Drugs and Sports: The Score    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Sport Medicine Council of B. C.

Facts and Stats    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Promotion Plus

Fair Play - It's Your Call    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Coaching Association of Canada

Fit Skip Ness: The Skipping Challenge    (Print Materials)

Book describes single rope and double-dutch activities in progressively difficult levels. Focus is on fun and fitness while developing rhythm, balance, co-ordination, and endurance. Special teaching tips and achievement certificates are included.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: ATEC Marketing Limited

Fitness for Children    (Print Materials)

Book contains 47 challenging and enjoyable activities to improve physical fitness among children. Activities in four categories: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. Teaching strategies are provided.

Cautions: Safety considerations - pages 33 and 36, chairs may slip out.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Fitness for Good Health    (Video)

Ten-minute video shows how students can develop a fun and easy fitness program to do on a daily basis. Children are seen performing a variety of physical exercises for muscle development. The importance of rest, safety, and good eating habits are addressed. Demonstrates that a gym is not necessary for exercising.

Cautions: Video shows a child doing a back handspring. Teachers will need to address potential safety considerations.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)

Fitness Fun    (Print Materials)

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.

Cautions: Teachers need to address safety concerns for activities on page 43 (hoops scattered on the floor) and page 50 (towel sliding).

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Fitness Fun (Promoting Health in P.E.)    (Print Materials)

Book provides practical ideas and guidelines for a multitude of physical activities and games that help develop stamina, suppleness, strength, and endurance in children. The focus is on introducing fitness concepts and a healthy lifestyle in an enjoyable format.

Audience:

General
ID (Mild) - simple activities

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: Bacon & Hughes

Fun 'n Motion! Helping Girls & Young Women Set Goals For Lifelong Physical Activity!    (Print Materials)

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.

Cautions: Three worksheets feature small, incidental diagrams of bikers, skaters, and boarders with no safety gear (pages 12, 39, 53).

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: CAHPERD

Gender Equity Through Physical Education    (Print Materials)

Three components: a booklet addressing gender issues in physical education, ten checklist cards listing strategies for action to effect change, and a pamphlet highlighting gender appropriate language. Focus is on creating a gender equitable learning environment.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: CAHPERD

Heart Smart Kids    (Print Materials)

Educator's guide and student magazine promote a lifelong heart-healthy lifestyle. Activities focus on making informed heart-healthy food choices, being physically active, and being smoke free. Contact Heart and Stroke Foundation for free workshop.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: Heart and Stroke Foundation

How to Run a Swim Meet Without Water    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)

Inclusion of Students with Special Needs in Physical Education    (Print Materials)

Manual outlines effective strategies and ideas for modifying mainstream physical education activities to allow the inclusion of all students. Two appendices highlight sensitive language and explain specific disabilities.

Audience:

General
Physical Disabilities - activities provided for including students with a variety of special needs such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida&127;
Blind/Visual Impairments - activities provided for including students with a variety of special needs
Deaf or Hard of Hearing - activities provided for including students with a variety of special needs

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Vancouver School Board - Curriculum Publications

Innovative Games    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Juggletime    (Video)

Thirty-minute video shows how to juggle one to three scarves (which are included with the cassette). Instructions are presented in a step-by-step approach accompanied by songs.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Kids Sports    (Video)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: B. C. Learning Connection Inc.

Lacrosse: The Creator's Game    (Video)

Twenty-five-minute video explores the history of lacrosse, its spiritual significance to First Nations, and their generosity in sharing lacrosse. Interviews with modern lacrosse players and First Nations leaders are interwoven with archival footage.

Cautions: Lack of female perspective within historical context; depicts First Nations women as passive spectators and perpetuates male "macho" image.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)

Lost In The Woods    (Video)

Video realistically portrays a young boy who becomes lost in the woods while on a camping trip with his parents. He remembers the safety rules he was taught in school. These rules are repeated during the video, and for emphasis the boy is rescued. The message is that he survived due to his own safe and intelligent behaviour. Contact Gary O'Brien in Victoria, 383-1011, for a workshop.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: B. C. Learning Connection Inc.

Lost in the Woods: Child Survival    (Print Materials)

Book begins as a story based on the real-life experiences of a lost boy. Important survival rules are incorporated into the story. The story is followed by a variety of teacher-directed activities regarding what to do when lost, as well as ways to prevent becoming lost. Contact Gary O'Brien in Victoria, 383-1011, for a workshop.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Porthole Press Ltd.

Moving to Inclusion    (Multi-media)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)

On Challenged Wings    (Video)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility
Movement

Supplier: B. C. Learning Connection Inc.

On the Move    (Print Materials)

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

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: Promotion Plus

Our Wonderful Body Series    (Video Series/Collection)

Six animated videos, each 6 - 10 minutes long, present a variety of health-related topics: germs, medicines, keeping fit, stress, making healthy decisions, and eating well. Each video is accompanied by a brief discussion guide with vocabulary lists, background information, and questions.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)

Physical Education: VCE Units 1, 2, 3, 4    (Print Materials)

Two softcover Australian texts offering a comprehensive overview and analysis of body images, health factors, learning physical skills, technique and technology, biomechanical principles, sociology of sport and fitness, and participation. Suggestions for student activities are included.

Audience:

General
Gifted - many projects encourage critical thinking

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Nelson Canada

Power Training for Sport: Plyometrics for Maximum Power Development    (Print Materials)

Current Canadian book provides information on power training for developing individual training and fitness programs. Methodology, planning, illustrations, testing, and a glossary are included. The author has captured training principles for the normal population, rather than for athletes who have enhanced their training with drugs.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Mosaic Press / International Publishers Inc.

Premier's Sport Awards Program    (Print Materials)

Activity-based program teaches basic skills in badminton, basketball, field hockey, gymnastics, ice skating, orienteering, soccer, softball, track and field, and volleyball. Package has several components: 10 instructor's manuals, award badges for skill challenges, and sport-specific skill or challenge posters.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Premier's Sport Award Program

A Quality Approach to Primary Physical Education: A Resource Guide for Teachers - Gymnastics    (Print Materials)

Book provides an overview of gymnastics progressions and skill development, and a clearly sequenced and thorough set of lessons for each of nine themes. Lessons include equipment list and setup instructions, opening and closing activities, and skill development and application progressions. Evaluation checklists are included for each theme.

Audience:

General
ESL - demonstrations used frequently, language will require reinforcement; some teacher adaptation required
LD/ID (Mild) - demonstrations used frequently; some teacher adaptation required

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Vancouver School Board - Curriculum Publications

A Quality Approach to Primary Physical Education: A Resource Guide for Teachers - Planning Guide    (Print Materials)

Comprehensive planning guide provides the framework, rationale, and goals of the primary physical education program. Includes suggestions for program design and organization, guidelines for use of equipment and facilities (time-tabling), and some assessment strategies.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Vancouver School Board - Curriculum Publications

A Quality Approach to Primary Physical Education: A Resource Guide for Teachers - Dance    (Print Materials)

A primary dance resource with emphasis on dance movement analysis, progressions, and skill development in a sequential format. It includes suggested lesson plans, activities, and evaluation checklists which are organized into three themes of creative movement, rhythmics, and folk dance.

Audience:

General
ESL - demonstrations used frequently
Gifted - open ended activities
ID (Mild) - creative expression

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Vancouver School Board - Curriculum Publications

A Quality Approach to Primary Physical Education: A Resource Guide for Teachers - Games Activities    (Print Materials)

Lesson plans for game activities include a suggested timeline, facilities, equipment, objectives, opening, skill development, application, and closing. The lessons are sequenced to show a progression of skill development in game activities.

Audience:

General
ESL - demonstrations used frequently; language will require reinforcement; some teacher adaptation required
LD - demonstrations used frequently; some teacher adaptation required
ID (Mild) - demonstrations used frequently; some teacher adaptation required

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Vancouver School Board - Curriculum Publications

Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education    (Print Materials)

Book with 150 lessons for a wide range of physical activity and sports. Each lesson contains sections on purpose, equipment and facilities, warm-up, skill cues, teaching cues, activities, and closure.

Cautions: American measurements used for courts, fields, weights.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility
Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Running Through My Mind    (Print Materials)

Book takes a personal, anecdotal approach to explore the role and meaning of physical activity and sport in life.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living

Supplier: 3S Fitness Group Ltd.

Self Esteem, Sport and Physical Activity    (Print Materials)

Professional resource folder consists of eight articles from various newspapers and journals addressing issues affecting girls and women in physical activity and sport, such as self-esteem and gender equity.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Promotion Plus

Self Esteem, Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS)    (Print Materials)

Canadian background report addressing issues of self-esteem and physical activity as they relate to girls and women.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Assn. for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity

Skip To Health    (Print Materials)

Handbook details comprehensive methods for incorporating skipping into any fitness program. Five main sections address the skills development approach, games approach, creative approach, warming up for other activities, and training for sports.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: ATEC Marketing Limited

Skip To It! The New Skipping Book    (Print Materials)

"How-to" skipping reference provides basic and advanced skipping instructions. Teaching tips, diagrams, creative routines, and partner and small group work are provided.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: ATEC Marketing Limited

Small Craft Safety: Instructor Guide and Reference    (Print Materials)

Guide deals with the basics of small craft safety (canoeing, rowing, and power) as well as related conditions (weather, water, and survival) and preventive aspects of boating (navigation, safety equipment, and emergency procedures).

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Red Cross Society

Smart Cycling - Instructor's Manual (Primary & Junior Levels)    (Print Materials)

This cycling program promotes awareness of traffic and cycling safety, encourages safe riding and maintenance skills, and illustrates fundamentals of cycling in residential areas and low traffic, two-lane roads. Lessons include lecture and practice for classroom and schoolyard.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Cycling Association / Association cycliste canadien

Sports First-Aid: A Guide to Sport Injuries    (Print Materials)

Book provides a comprehensive, practical guide to injury prevention, recognition, and on-site management of common sport injuries. A quick, ready reference is included for immediate treatment of common injuries.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Sport Medicine Council of B.C.

Steps to Success    (Multi-media)

Comprehensive set of resources for teaching and learning a variety of sports and activities. Includes: 18 participant books, instructor's guides, series textbook, one video and five audio cassettes. The program is designed to teach basic skills in a self-paced, sequential manner.

Cautions: One book in the set, "Australian Football," is not recommended due to safety considerations.

Audience:

General
Gifted - program could be given as independent study in a particular activity area

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

The Student Leadership Development Program (Elementary)    (Print Materials)

Looseleaf material provides a comprehensive guide to helping students build leadership skills to successfully plan and manage their own intramural programs in the elementary school setting.

Audience:

General
Gifted - opporutnities to develop leadership skills among peer groups

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA)

Syllabus Resource Book - National Coaching Certification Program    (Print Materials)

Book is designed as a quick reference tool for instructors. It contains detailed descriptions of NCCP technical and practical components for 27 sports.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Coaching Association of Canada

Teaching Beginning Dance Improvisation    (Multi-media - Series)

Two 60-minute videotapes present a series of activities for teaching improvisation from various aspects. The accompanying teacher's manual provides clearly stated objectives, lesson goals, activities, teaching hints, and coaching phrases.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: American Alliance for Health

Teaching Children Fitness    (Print Materials)

Book provides developmentally appropriate practices for teaching elementary physical education. Practical, child-tested examples of fitness activities are included. Learning experiences are divided into five categories. American Food Pyramid.

Cautions: Calipers used for evaluation of fitness, pages 29, 62.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Teaching Children Fitness - Video    (Video)

Thirty-minute video is a companion to the book Teaching Children Fitness and condenses three lessons for teaching fitness: "Being Active," "Cookie Lesson: Learning about Calories," "Cardiorespiratory Fitness." The lessons show typical class and gym situations.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Teaching Children Gymnastics    (Print Materials)

Book provides answers to the "whys" and "hows" of teaching developmentally appropriate gymnastics. It contains 24 practical, child-tested gymnastics activities sequentially organized into three skill areas: travelling, static balances, and rotations.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility
Active Living

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Teaching Children Physical Education    (Print Materials)

Book describes and analyzes the techniques, behaviours, and approaches used to develop and teach physical education lessons that are developmentally appropriate. Focus is on improving the teaching process.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Teaching Folk Dance Activities    (Video)

Twenty-minute video describes class management techniques and instructional strategies for use in teaching folk dance. The meanings of measure, accent, tempo, and musical phrase are explained.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Times Mirror Professional Publishing Ltd.

Teaching Game Activities    (Video)

Twenty-five-minute video describes how game activities are organized and taught to children who fall within three developmental levels of motor skill. Teaching strategies and lessons are suggested for each level.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Times Mirror Professional Publishing Ltd.

Team Building Through Physical Challenges    (Print Materials)

Book contains 22 Outward Bound-type physical tasks that require students to work together for a common end and, in the process, develop co-operative, team-building skills. Challenges are organized into three levels of difficulty.

Audience:

General
Gifted - as a resource for senior physical education leadership students

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Active Living
Personal and Social Responsibility
Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Towards Gender Equity For Women In Sport: A Handbook for National Sport Organizations    (Print Materials)

Book introduces issues and concerns related to gender equity in Canadian sport. A proactive method is stressed in promoting leadership for women and activity for people with disabilities.

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: CAHPERD

Upper Elementary Children: Moving and Learning    (Print Materials)

Resource binder and two audio cassettes with music provide students with opportunities to explore movement and self-expression through solving movement problems. The binder contains 120 movement activities in 40 well-organized lesson plans.

Cautions: Teachers need to be aware of comfort levels of students for sections "On Balance" and "Close Relations."

Audience:

General

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement

Supplier: Human Kinetics Canada

Watersafe    (Print Materials)

Lesson experiences and related activities heighten awareness of accident potential inherent in water-related activities. Topics include: swimming, boating, waterplay, water sports, self-help, rescuing others, and managing emergency situations. Includes games, activity sheets, and posters.

Audience:

General
Gifted - games, challenging activities for independent learners

Curriculum Organizer(s):

Movement
Personal and Social Responsibility

Supplier: Canadian Red Cross Society

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