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Health Promotion Discipline
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Nutrition
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Nutrition Tools for Schools |
Developed by Ontario Public Health Units, Nutrition Tools for Schools aims to help school communities work thorough a step-by-step process of creating a healthy school nutrition environment. |
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Healthy Lunch Display |
Concerned about what your students have in their lunch? This display shows what the contents of a proper lunch are, and shows the detriment of eating unhealthy foods everyday. |
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Energy Drink Display
Grades 4 - 12 |
Raise awareness about the amount of sugar and caffeine in common energy drinks. |
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Canadian Rainbow Food Clings Kit
All Grades |
A versatile nutrition teaching tool for all ages! You can position the clings on the rainbow chart in food groups or use them to show appropriate daily food intake. Forty-nine different foods can cling to the rainbow and place mats provided, and can be repositioned to use over and over again. |
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Teaching the Facts: Label Reading Kit
All Grades |
Promote healthy eating through nutrition education activities designed to develop an understanding how packaged foods fit into Canada’s Food Guide and how to make wise and informed food choices by being able to read and understand food labels. |
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Finding Fats:
A Guide to Raise Awareness About the Hidden Fats in Foods
All Grades |
This kit raises awareness about the hidden fats in everyday foods, to help students make wise and nutritious fat choices. |
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The Single Serving Packaged Food List
All Grades |
The Single Serving Packaged Food List is to assist schools in implementing the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth. The foods included in this List are packaged products available in the marketplace that meet the 'Choose Most Often' and 'Choose Sometimes' criteria as listed in the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines. |
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Make a Good
Choice Poster
All Grades |
Use this poster to help identify foods sold at your school canteen or cafeteria that meet the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth. |
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Alberta Nutrition Guidelines
All Grades |
Use the guidelines to create an environment which provides healthy food choices and promotes healthy eating. This package offers steps for how schools can implement and utilize the recommendations.
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Fuel Up!
Teachers' PowerPoint
Grades 5-12
Junior to Senior High Teachers & Coaches
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This presentation provides info on the proper nutrition needed for active individuals.
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PowerPoint Presentation
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Fundraising the Healthy Way
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Alternative ways to fundraise without using food. |
Downloadable Resource
Cover Page
Fundraising the Healthy Way Resource
(52 Pages)
2009 - 2010 Fundraising
Calendar Flyer |
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Bake Better Bites
Great for Parent Councils |
Ways to make baked goods healthy for bake sales. Sample recipes are provided
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You Are What You Eat
Grades 5 - 12 |
A PowerPoint presentation that illustrates sources of hidden fats and sugars.
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PowerPoint Presentation
downloadable or available on CD |
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Liquid Candy Display & Resource Manual
All ages |
Raise awareness about the amount of sugar in common beverages and the nutritive value of healthier beverage choices. |
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Nutrition Resource Kit
Grades K-9 |
Developed by Registered Dietitians, this kit complements the Alberta Education Grades K-9 Health and Life Skills Curriculum. Includes lesson plans and activities
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Breakfast for Learning – Canadian Living Foundation Nutrition Program Start-Up Kit |
Information to help you organize a successful nutrition program. This resource includes a Nutrition Program Grant application form, as well as guidelines and tips that will take you step by step through the process of filling out and submitting your application. |
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Project Apex: Teaching Resource Kit
Grades 4-6 |
This resource aims to enable students to analyze their own eating and physical activity habits in a non-competitive environment. It includes lesson plans and activities. |
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Nutrition PI: K-3 Teacher’s Guide |
Promotes the development of sensible eating behaviour through activities, rather them overwhelming information. |
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School Nutrition Handbook |
Provides info that may assist your school in making changes towards healthier options. |
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Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide |
Get your copy of Eating Well with Canada 's Food Guide today! |
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Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide - Educator's Manual |
Get your copy of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide - a resource for Educators and Communicators. |
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My Food Guide |
An interactive tool that will help you personalize the information found in Canada's Food Guide. |
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Nutrition for Children with Special Care Needs |
A specialized handbook for Parents, Teachers, Caregivers and Food Service Providers |
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Eating Well for Vegetarian Athletes |
This resource will help vegetarian athletes. When a vegetarian eating pattern is well planned it can meet your nutrient needs for training and competition. Care must be taken, however, to get enough energy and to replace key nutrients found in animal products. |
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Eating Right on a Vegetarian Diet
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The resource, provided by the Dietitians of Canada, gives guidance on eating right on a vegetarian diet, and help to choose the right products to eat. It focuses on nutrients of concern, as well as gives other resources for more information. |
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EATracker |
Eat-Activity Tracker – lets you track your day’s food and activity choices and compares them to the guidelines laid out by Healthy Canada. A great activity for media or health classes! |
Interactive Resource
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Health Promotion Discipline
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Active Living
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Positive Playgrounds
Resource of Outdoor and Indoor Games
Grades K-9 |
This kit provides schools and facilities with all the tools and Positive Play strategies you'll need to implement a successful program and to provide and teach children the skills, knowledge, and positive play strategies to reap the benefits of playing traditional, cooperative and new games that they can use to develop social skills, gain physical fitness and to have fun. |
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EverActive Recipe Card Lesson Plans
Grades K-6 |
The Recipe Card Lesson Plans feature a total of 36 lessons organized into six units of six lessons each. All lessons included “Warm it Up!”, “Whoop it Up!” and “Wrap it Up!” and each lesson is directly linked to student learning outcomes from the Alberta Physical Education Program of Studies. |
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Fitness Skillastics Activity Mat
Grades 4-9 |
This mat will highlight all four fitness components - aerobic endurance, muscle strength, muscle endurance, and flexibility, and will also help students achieve a higher level of fitness in a unique and non-competitive environment. |
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Fundamental Movement Skills:
Active Start & FUNdamentals Stage |
A handbook for generalists and physical education teachers, as well as others tasked with teaching motor skill development
This great manual includes characteristics, teaching tips, activities and checklists for the following 12 fundamental movement skills: Dodge, Hop, Skip, Log Roll, Stork Stand, Jump, Kick, Dribble, Overarm Throw, Catch, Run and Sidearm Strike. |
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Walking Games and Activities
Grades K - 12 |
Walking is a lifetime fitness activity that’s easy to incorporate into classes, but many teachers dread the moans and groans of students who find walking boring. This book can change those negative reactions! Students of every age respond with enthusiasm to these games. |
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Ever Active Schools
Domino Fitness Choice Kit
Grades 4 - 12 |
In this low equipment game, students move at their own pace through a variety of station activities. Students are empowered to make their own activity choices at each station, creating an opportunity for students to participate at their own energy and ability levels. |
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Supersized PE
A Comprehensive Guidebook for Teaching Overweight Students
Grades K - 12 |
This book guides physical education teachers through the psychological and pedagogical knowledge maps for teaching overweight students.
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No Standing Around in My Gym
Grades K - 6 |
Fresh ideas for keeping elementary-age students moving, learning, and on their toes. Includes descriptions to make the units and games easy to teach.
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Yoga Techniques for the Classroom
Grades K - 9 |
Illustrates how to do the yoga poses inside the classroom with and without desks. Includes a deck of yoga cards and PowerPoint. |
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Parachute Games
All Ages |
This kit has a guide that includes 60 parachute activities that kids and a colourful parachute. |
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Fit Deck Jr.
Grades K - 10 |
A desk of cards that are shuffled to create millions of possible workouts for one or multiple players. |
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Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity
All Ages |
Guides teachers in using physical activity to foster personal and social responsibility.
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Recess Success
Grades K - 9 |
A how to guide on developing physical fitness and cognitive abilities in students. Can be used for recess, gym class and after school leisure time. There’s a special section on appropriate games for rainy days. |
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The Biggest Little Games Book Ever
Grades 1-6 |
An Alberta Education authorized resource. This book contains around 350 games and activities. It also contains an activity tracker (to help you keep track of games played and keep you from repeating the same games), long-range planning guide (to help you provide a quality physical education and DPA program), lesson plans, and instruction techniques.
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The Ultimate Playground & Recess Game Book
All Ages |
More than 170 activities for recess and rec time outside. Each game is described in user friendly text, and useful “activity finder” chart makes if quick to find games to meet the needs of the group. |
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Resistance Bands
All Ages |
Use resistance bands to get your students moving and learning and having FUN all at the same time! Included in this kit is a classroom set of 30 resistance bands, resource booklet and exercise sheet |
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Speed Stacks
All Ages |
An activity all kids love (even the “I'm too cool for this” kid) This activity develops bilateral proficiency equal performance on both sides of the brain. This activity helps with reading and math skills. |
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Do More Watch Less
Classroom Resource
Grades 5 and 6
easily modified for any grade level |
A project which gives the opportunity to track current screen time behavior, and make healthy changes to decrease screen time |
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Mix, Match and Motivate
author Jeff Carpenter
Grades K - 6 |
107 activities take a developmentally appropriate approach to skill development and fitness in a non-competitive way. |
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Multicultural Games
author Lorranine Barbarash
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Featuring 75 games from 43 countries or cultures on 6 continents. This practical reference is an excellent source for building an interdisciplinary and multicultural curriculum.
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50 Games
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50 Tennis Balls |
This 50 Games book is 85 pages of games using 50 tennis balls (get them cheap at the dollar store or pick up used balls at the local tennis club). Excellent resource, easy to follow activities, simple instructions. Pictures to show the activity. |
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Everybody Move!
English & French Version Available |
This resource has everything one needs to get everybody moving whether in a small confined space or a large spacious gym. The CD provides the music, the DVD, the demonstrations and the resource book puts everything together.
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Fit Kids Classroom Workout DVD |
The workout can be used in any school space, anytime, any day to invigorate and motivate your students. It can also be used as a warm-up to other physical activity. The program includes four 5-minute and two 10-minute workouts, plus a brief “healthy message” at the end of each. |
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6 Fit Kids'
Workouts DVD
Ages 8 - 13 |
Whether at home or at school, discover how to re-energize, invigorate and motivate your kids! This fun, upbeat collection of short workout routines is widely used in classrooms across North America. |
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Pedometer Class Set Kit |
Pedometers can be used for multi-curricular projects and are an excellent motivational tool for students. This package includes a class set of pedometer, instruction card, information pertaining to pedometer use, and a pedometer evaluation form.
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Rubber Chicken Class Set Kit
All Ages |
This package includes a class set of rubber chickens accompanied by a resource book that includes a multitude of ‘Zany’ rubber chicken activities that are great for all ages! |
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DPA Energizers
Grades K - 5
Grades 6 - 9
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These binders of DPA Energizers are classroom based physical activities that integrate physical activity with academic concepts. These are short (about 10 minutes) activities that classroom teachers can use to provide activity to children. They are broken down in grade levels (K-grade 5 and grade 6-9) and Grade 6-9 are broken down into curriculum based energizers. |
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Manuals
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K - Grade 5
Healthful Living Grades 6-9
Language Arts Grades 6-9
Math Grades 6-9
Music Grades 6-9
Science Grades 6-9
Social Studies Grades 6-9
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Promising Practices
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Ever Active Schools
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The Promising Practices resource is a compilation of the best and most unique activities and ideas schools in the Ever Active Schools program have submitted over the past 6 years. |
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Daily Physical Education Timetables
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Alberta Schools
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Profiles of some Alberta schools offering daily physical education. Each profile includes school demographics, scheduling demographics, and snapshots of how each school overcame the challenges of offering daily physical education. |
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Winter Active Family Activity Kit
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To help you with ideas to keep moving in the winter months, these WinterActive resources are great for both parents and teachers. |
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Live Outside the Box Activity Toolkit
Grades K - 8
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This kit includes four physical activity modules with different weekly themes. |
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Recess Revival
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An implementation guide for the promotion of physical activity and cooperative play for elementary-aged children. |
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Walking!
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Everything you want to know about walking. Let’s get walkin’! |
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Pedometer Activities
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Lesson plans for cross curricular activities relating to pedometers. |
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Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Children
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Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Children handout. |
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Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Youth
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Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Youth handout. |
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Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Adults |
Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Adults handout. |
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