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RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: LESSON IDEAS

	K-4 Active Health Games
	Movement Skills Committee - Manitoba Available at the Manitoba Textbook Bureau	English/French
	Contains active health games related to safety, fitness management, and healthy lifestyle practices learning outcomes as prescribed in the Manitoba PE/HE curriculum.

	Active Living Gear Kit: Promoting Inclusive Programming for individuals of all abilities, of all ages
	Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability - Manitoba	English
	Provides information on how to borrow the Active Living Gear Kit “ALGK”.

	Action Pages! A physical activity and sport education resource guide
	Premier’s Sport Awards Program and Action Schools! BC	English
	This guide is links teachers, instructors, and coaches with resources available across Canada to support school and community based physical activity.

	Activ8
	Active Healthy Kids Canada	English
	Activ8 is a curriculum-based physical activity challenge program that links to each province's health and physical education curriculum.

	Children in Sport - A resource manual for sport leaders
	Sask Sport Inc.	English
	A Resource Manual for Sport Leaders is designed to assist volunteers with a variety of information including: guidelines for developing programs, resource information and delivery strategy suggestions.

	Moving on the spot: Fun and Physical Activity
	Toronto Public Health	English
	A collection of five minute stretch and movement sessions, especially for children.

	Our Schools in Action - Integrated Lessons K-6
	Alberta Learning	French/English
	A downloadable guide to help teachers with the instruction of basic running, throwing, and jumping skills.

	Our Schools in Action - Integrated Lessons 7-12
	Alberta Learning	French/English
	A downloadable guide to help teachers with the instruction of basic running, throwing, and jumping skills.

	PlaySkills
	Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada	English
	Targeted to elementary teachers, these activity sheets can be used in grades k to 3 classrooms to promote the participation in physical activity.

	Posters for Athletic Circuits
	Alberta Learning	English
	Posters for activity day events.

	PowerSkills
	Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada	English
	Targeted to elementary teachers, these activity sheets can be used in grades 4 to 8 classrooms to promote the participation in physical activity, while meeting curriculum expectations.

	Basketball Skills Posters
	Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada	English
	These 5 full-colour posters provide a great way for students to learn basketball skills through fun cooperative group activities.

	Jumping into the Curriculum
	Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada	English
	This cross-curricular resource provides elementary teachers with fun-filled jump rope activities that assist in teaching language, math, science, the arts and social studies concepts while nurturing students’ Multiple Intelligences.

	Invent a Sport
	Family Education Network	English
	Lesson plan that gets students to learn the critical elements of sports activities and develop motor-skills.

	Physical Activity Survey
	Family Education Network	English
	This lesson plan gets students to research information about the benefits of physical activity, conduct a survey and discuss the results.

	Physical Education Lesson Ideas
	PE Central	English
	PE Central's database contains over 1300 health and physical education lesson and assessment ideas.

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Healthy Schools, please contact:

Healthy Schools
Phone: (204) 788-6679
Email: healthyschools@gov.mb.ca

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