Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Active Participation
Actively participate in a wide variety of program activities, according to their capabilities, while applying behaviours that enhance their readiness and ability to take part
- Build Your Best Day Game (Online Game)
- Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (Website Guideline PDF)
- The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to their personal enjoyment of being active as they participate in a wide variety of individual and small-group activities and lead-up games
- Sportsmanship: Respect for the Game Activity (Website Worksheet)
- Teamwork: Short Film (YouTube Video)
- How to Encourage Kids to Exercise if They Dislike Sports (Website Article)
- What If I Don’t Like Sports? (Website Article)
Describe factors that motivate them to participate in physical activity every day, at school and during leisure time, and that influence their choice of activities
- Brain Gains: Better Grades Through Fitness (Website video)
- What If I Don’t Like Sports? (Website Article)
- Overcoming Obstacles to Physical Activity (Website Article)
Physical Fitness
Daily Physical Activity (DPA): participate in sustained moderate to vigorous physical activity, with appropriate warmup and cool-down activities, to the best of their ability for a minimum of 20 minutes each day
- Try a TikTok Dance Challenge – TikTok Blinding Lights Compilation (YouTube Video)
- Dance with ABC For Kids (Music from Hoopla)
- Have A Blast With This Family Friendly Fun Cardio Workout! (YouTube Video)
- PE Fitness Circuit (YouTube Video)
- Get Active at Home (YouTube Video)
- Fitness Break (YouTube Video)
- Stretch for Your Best (Website Article with Activities)
- Strength Training for Kids (YouTube Video)
Explain how participation in physical activities affects personal health-related fitness
- Warm Up, Cool Down (Website Article)
- Warm Up Exercises (YouTube Video)
- Kids and Exercise (Website Article)
- Yoga for the Classroom (YouTube Video)
Assess a specific component of their health-related fitness by noting physical responses during various physical activities, and monitor changes over time
- Active Kids (EBSCO eBook)
- What Happens to Your Body When You Start Exercising Regularly (YouTube Video)
Assess their level of health-related fitness as they participate in various physical activities
- DPA Tracker (Website Physical Activity Tracking Sheet)
- How to Feel Your Heart Beat (YouTube Video)
- Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines Key Messages (Website Article)
Develop and implement plans of action based on both their assessments of their health-related components of fitness and their interests, in order to achieve personal fitness goals
- How to Make an Exercise Plan (Website Article)
- How Would You Design an Exercise Plan for Children? (Website Article)
Safety
Demonstrate behaviours and apply procedures that maximize their safety and lessen the risk of injury, including the risk of concussion, for themselves and others during physical activity
- How to Prevent Injuries During Exercise (Website Article)
- Heads Up! Concussion Awareness (EBSCO eBook)
- Hockey and the Concussion Debate (Website Video)
Describe appropriate methods for treating minor injuries that may occur while participating in physical activity
- First Aid Safety for Kids (Website Article and videos)
- 6 First Aid Rules to Teach Your Kids Now (Website Article)