TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.
How to Use These Resources
Curriculum Overview
The expectations for Grades 4 build on students’ experiences in the primary grades and further develop the knowledge and skills they need for physical and health literacy with an emphasis on building students’ understanding of themselves in relation to others.
Learners develop an understanding of the factors that contribute to their physical and mental health and the health of others in their family and community, but with a particular focus on choices and decisions connected to their personal health with frequent opportunities to question, integrate, analyse, and apply information. Students continue to develop their locomotor and fine motor skills and develop a greater ability to combine motor skills in sequence, examining how to relate these concepts and principles to their movement skills in order to improve the quality of movement and further develop their sense of self and their identity as competent movers.
The expectations for health and physical education are organized into four distinct but related strands:
- Social-Emotional Learning Skills
- Healthy Living
- Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, and Strategies
- Active Living
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Learning Activities
Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.
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Resources for Learning
Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.
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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.
Apply the Learning
Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.
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Design a game that allows all students have a chance to be active and participate fully in the game not matter their ability. What specific features of your game accomplish this goal?
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Design a 20 minute physical activity program, including a warm up and cool down that you could complete at home.
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Compare how you feel before doing the DPA activity and after. What feels different? What affects how you feel when you are being active?
- Create an infographic or public service announcement that explains how you can prevent a concussion, and to recognize and respond to a suspected concussion.
- The target games of many sports emphasize accuracy and control as you try to get an object as close as possible to a target. Create a list of games you can think of that meet this goal. What similar strategies might you use in some or all of these activities?
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Consider the key nutrients: fats, carbohydrates, proteins, viatmins and minerals. Create a graphic organizer that illustrates examples of foods that contain these nutrients.
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What are some things you should do to use this technology safely and in a way that supports your mental health? How can you get help if you get into trouble?
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What is an example of social bullying? Physical bullying? Verbal bullying? Is one type of bullying any more or less hurtful than another?”
- During puberty, bodies undergo many changes. Sometimes it is hard to get used to the changes that are happening so quickly. What are some of the feelings you might have as you start to experience changes with puberty, and what strategies might you use to manage them.
- Imagine you had to choose a beverage during a meal. You were offered a glass of water, soda pop, or fruit juice. Rank these beverages in order of most healthy to least healthy and explain your reasoning.
- What safety considerations do you need to think about when you go online? Who can help you make safe decisions?
- Create a public service announcment that explains how the choice to vape or smoke can have a detrimental effects on your health.
- Stress is something we all feel at different times and each person experiences stress differently. What trusted adult might you reach out to for help in times of stress? What strategies might you develop in order to help you regain a sense of control?
Vocabulary
Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.
Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.
- Active Living
- Movement Competence
- Healthy Living
aerobic activity
basic principles of movement
cardiorespiratory fitness
choice
conventions of fair play
cool down
endurance
fitness goals
flexibility
game structures
muscular strength
physical exertion
pulse rate
risk of concussion
self assessment techniques
warm up
individual activities
locomotor movements
movement skills and strategies
net-wall activities
perseverance
physical fitness
physically active
self awareness
self confidence
static balance
striking-fielding activities
tactical solutions
target activities
territory activities
addiction
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communication technology (texting, internet use, gaming)
healthy eating
internet safety
managing stress
non-consentual behaviour
nutrients (fasts, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals)
personal eating habits
personal hygiene
puberty
substance abuse
types of bulling (social bullying, cyber bullying, physical bullying, verbal bullying)
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